Best Movies of 1942

RTITLELL%Lists By Year
1Mrs. Miniver55594%1942 (555)
2Random Harvest30569%1943 (305)
3Yankee Doodle Dandy28565%1943 (285)
4Kings Row26945%1942 (269)
5Wake Island26044%1942 (260)
6The Pride of the Yankees24141%1942 (241)
7The Man Who Came To Dinner23840%1942 (238)
8Woman of the Year18531%1942 (185)
9The Pied Piper17630%1942 (176)
10Reap the Wild Wind16227%1942 (162)
11Tales of Manhattan14827%1942 (109) | 1943 (39)
12My Sister Eileen (1942)15226%1942 (152)
13Tortilla Flat12621%1942 (126)
13Holiday Inn12621%1942 (126)
15This Above All11519%1942 (115)
16The Talk of the Town11219%1942 (112)
17The Major and the Minor11019%1942 (110)
18Now, Voyager10918%1942 (109)
19Bambi10317%1942 (103)
20The Magnificent Ambersons7713%1942 (77)
21Journey for Margaret5613%1943 (56)
22Take a Letter, Darling6010%1942 (60)
23Joe Smith, American498%1942 (49)
24In This Our Life458%1942 (45)
24The Male Animal458%1942 (45)
26For Me and My Gal338%1943 (33)
27The Moon and Sixpence447%1942 (44)
28The Road to Morocco327%1943 (32)
29George Washington Slept Here367%1942 (19) | 1943 (17)
30The Gold Rush (reissue)397%1942 (39)
31Sullivan's Travels386%1942 (38)
32Moontide346%1942 (34)
32Desperate Journey346%1942 (34)
34This Gun for Hire325%1942 (32)
34Saboteur325%1942 (32)
34My Gal Sal325%1942 (32)
37The War Against Mrs. Hadley305%1942 (30)
37Mister V305%1942 (30)
39The Gay Sisters295%1942 (29)
39Babes on Broadway295%1942 (29)
41My Favorite Blonde264%1942 (26)
41The Great Man's Lady264%1942 (26)
43To Be Or Not to Be (1942)244%1942 (24)
43Johnny Eager244%1942 (24)
45Joan of Paris234%1942 (23)
46To the Shores of Tripoli224%1942 (22)
46Somewhere I'll Find You224%1942 (22)
46Captains of the Clouds224%1942 (22)
49The Remarkable Andrew214%1942 (21)
49One of Our Aircraft Is Missing214%1942 (21)

Lists Included 592

L Total number of lists where the film was selected as one of the top 10 films of the year
L%
Percentage of total lists where the film was selected as one of the top 10 films of the year
Lists By Year
Number of votes in annual Film Daily poll

The Results of this poll are directly from The Film Daily annual poll that asked newspapers around the nation to submit a top 10 list.  Films have been recategorized to U.S. release dates, as the poll often took place prior to year-end.