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Above Suspicion

  • 19431943
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 30m
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Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray in Above Suspicion (1943)
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Oxford Professor Richard Myles and his new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't the typical honeymoon: they are on a spying mission for British Intelligence on the eve of ... Read allOxford Professor Richard Myles and his new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't the typical honeymoon: they are on a spying mission for British Intelligence on the eve of World War II.Oxford Professor Richard Myles and his new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't the typical honeymoon: they are on a spying mission for British Intelligence on the eve of World War II.
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    • Richard Thorpe
  • Writers
    • Keith Winter(screenplay)
    • Melville Baker(screenplay)
    • Patricia Coleman(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Joan Crawford
    • Fred MacMurray
    • Conrad Veidt
    • Richard Thorpe
  • Writers
    • Keith Winter(screenplay)
    • Melville Baker(screenplay)
    • Patricia Coleman(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Joan Crawford
    • Fred MacMurray
    • Conrad Veidt
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    • 38User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
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    Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford
    • Frances Myles
    Fred MacMurray
    Fred MacMurray
    • Richard Myles aka Edward Smith
    Conrad Veidt
    Conrad Veidt
    • Hassert Seidel
    Basil Rathbone
    Basil Rathbone
    • Sig von Aschenhausen
    Reginald Owen
    Reginald Owen
    • Dr. Mespelbrunn
    Richard Ainley
    Richard Ainley
    • Peter Galt
    Cecil Cunningham
    Cecil Cunningham
    • Countess
    Ann Shoemaker
    Ann Shoemaker
    • Aunt Ellen
    Sara Haden
    Sara Haden
    • Aunt Hattie
    Felix Bressart
    Felix Bressart
    • Mr. A. Werner
    Bruce Lester
    Bruce Lester
    • Thornley
    Johanna Hofer
    • Frau Kleist
    Lotte Palfi Andor
    Lotte Palfi Andor
    • Ottilie
    • (as Lotta Palfi)
    George Aldwin
    • Student
    • (uncredited)
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    • German Woman
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Arnold
    • Poet at Frisky Rabbit
    • (uncredited)
    Felix Basch
    • Guide
    • (uncredited)
    Frederick Bauer
    • German Boy
    • (uncredited)
      • Richard Thorpe
    • Writers
      • Keith Winter(screenplay)
      • Melville Baker(screenplay)
      • Patricia Coleman(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Actor Conrad Veidt's final film before his death from a heart attack on 3 April 1943, two months after the end of production on this picture. This was his second film with Joan Crawford, having appeared alongside her two years before in A Woman's Face (1941).
    • Goofs
      When the couple is leaving Oxford after their wedding, Frances limps on her left foot. When leaving the Liszt concert, she limps on her right foot.
    • Quotes

      [on their wedding night, a policeman appears at the Myles's hotel room door demanding Richard's depart with him immediately]

      Frances Myles: This is no time for a practical joke.

      Const. Jones: It's no joke, ma'am.

      Frances Myles: It's not practical, either.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Unfinished Business (1985)
    • Soundtracks
      The Wedding March
      (1843) (uncredited)

      from "A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61"

      Music by Felix Mendelssohn

      In the score after Frances and Richard's wedding

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    6/10
    A Great Premise,But an Average Result.
    "Above Suspicion(1943)" was the last film Joan Crawford made under her Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract. Crawford had strictly made films for the studio since 1925. She left,because she was dissatisfied with the mundane scripts she was offered.Looking at this film,we can see her point.Here's an espionage thriller that has a great premise and a good cast,but falters midway through.The plot is basically about honeymooners(Crawford and Fred MacMurray)being ask to do spy work in Nazi Germany. They must get information about a secret German mine.Along the way,they encounter colorful characters that lead them to clues.They even witness an assassination of a German leader in an opera house.The first 45 minutes is extremely suspenseful and Crawford and MacMurray have great chemistry together.However,the rest of the film is less than plausible and the ending leaves much to be desired.The problem,though,is with the director,Richard Thorpe.Not one of MGM's best directors,Thrope puts too many unnecessary scenes in the film,that distract from the plot.In addition,he wastes the talent of some great character actors,putting them in one-dimensional roles.Basil Rathbone was great at playing sinister roles.Here he plays a conniving Nazi,but has very little to do.The major miscasting was letting Conrad Veidt play a charming spy.Veidt was marvelous at playing an acid-tongued Nazi officer,most notably in the classic,"Casablanca(1943)." In other hands like Alfred Hitchcock or Fritz Lang,this film could have been first-rate.Crawford wouldn't have a hit movie until "Mildred Pierce(1945)",where she gave perhaps the best performance of her career as a self-sacrificing mother. As it is, the film isn't a bomb,but there are much better spy thrillers out there.I give it 2 1/2 stars out of four.
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    • Release date
      • May 1943 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • French
      • German
      • Arabic
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    • Filming locations
      • Mount Wilson, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • 1 hour 30 minutes
      • Black and White

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