5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1942

And now we're back, from outer space -- that is if "my living-room floor" falls under the definition of "outer space" (there's no gravity when your spine gives in) -- and let us not look upon each other with sad looks upon our faces but rather joy, for it's time for one of our "Siri Says" series, in which I ask my cell phone to choose a number between 1 and 100 and we then choose our five favorite movies from the corresponding year. 

Today we got stuck with 1942 (all of these movies are turning 75 this year!) and at first I thought this would be a tough one - a lot of titles weren't jumping off the year's Wikipedia list at me. But then I started investigating closer, and realized I'd just forgotten the titles of several movies - there are actually a whole lot of movies from 1942 that I love. So many that narrowing it down to only 5 was a tough nut to crack. 

I managed, with some elbow grease brain-wise, but the runners-up should be thought of as a special bunch too. I mean a Hitchcock movie actually didn't make my top five - that's when you know something's nutty...

(dir. Michael Curtiz)

-- released on November 26th 1942 --

(dir. Irving Rapper)

-- released on October 31st 1942 --

(dir. Preston Sturges)

-- released on December 10th 1942 --

 To Be Or Not To Be

(dir. Ernst Lubitsch)

-- released on March 6th 1942 --

(dir. Jacques Tourneur)

-- released on December 25th 1942 --

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Runners-up: Bambi (dir. James Algar etc.),  Saboteur (dir. Alfred Hitchcock), The Corpse Vanishes (dir. Wallace Fox), Woman of the Year (dir. George Stevens), Gentlemen Jim (dir. Raoul Walsh),The Black Swan(dir. Henry King), The Pride of the Yankees (dir. Sam Wood), The Man Who Came to Dinner (dir. William Keighley)

Never Seen: Mrs. Miniver (dir. William Wyler),  

The Magnificent Ambersons (dir. Orson Welles)

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