Holiday Inn (1942, USA) – Bing Crosby, a down to earth singer, competes for girls with a sleazier-than-usual Fred Astaire. This is the movie Irving Berlin wrote White Christmas for. It also gave the name to a dull hotel chain I stayed at once. I have a quota for musicals, I find. Right now it’s been a while, so it was exactly the right time to watch one. Watched it all. Favorite scene:

Sexlingar (1942, Sweden) – A bad Swedish comedy. Watched: 7 minutes.

Street of Chance (1942, USA) – Another goddamn amnesia movie, and unlike Random Harvest this one isn’t even any good. Watched: 6 minutes.

Wake Island (1942, USA) – American soldiers hold out on Wake Island, for a while. Not a good movie, but the war’s still too fresh for me to be a critical war movie viewer. I’m fascinated by how laid back this movie is, not too different from other Hollywood dramas of the time. Serious, a bit sentimental, but friendly. At what point did movies about World War 2 become pompous? During the war or after? I can’t wait to find out. Watched it all.

Carousel (1942, USA) – They made widescreen movies in 1942?! No, they didn’t. This one’s been mislabeled at my Mysterious Source of Old Movies. It was actually made in 1956. That explains the frequent use of the word “slut”.. And the widescreen. Still, it was a most interesting experiment, to believe for just a few minutes that something impossible might be true.