Above Suspicion (1943)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Richard Thorpe

Writers:

Helen MacInnes (novel)
Keith Winter (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

May 1943 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Oxford Professor Richard Myles and new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't your typical honeymoon though...

Plot Keywords:

Honeymoon | Germany | Oxford | Professor | France

Cast

Joan Crawford	...	Frances Myles
Fred MacMurray	...	Richard Myles
Conrad Veidt	...	Hassert Seidel
Basil Rathbone	...	Sig von Aschenhausen
Reginald Owen	...	Dr. Mespelbrunn
Richard Ainley	...	Peter Galt
Cecil Cunningham	...	Countess
Ann Shoemaker	...	Aunt Ellen
Sara Haden	...	Aunt Hattie
Felix Bressart	...	Mr. A. Werner
Bruce Lester	...	Thornley
Johanna Hofer	...	Frau Kleist
Lotte Palfi Andor	...	Ottilie (as Lotta Palfi)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Madam Borget	...	Patron in Frisky Rabbit (as Mme. Borget)

Runtime:

90 min | 91 min (Turner library print)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French | German | Arabic

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #9144) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Filming Locations:

Bishop, California, USA

Company:

Loew's

Trivia:

Female bit players were not allowed to wear makeup in scenes that took place in Germany, as Adolf Hitler had banned it in 1933.

Quotes:

Richard Myles: Darling, the less you know, or appear to know, the better.
Frances Myles: That's what my mother told me the night I came out in Boston.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Unfinished Business (1986)

Soundtrack:

Who Is Sylvia?

Entertaining, light-hearted spy yarn with Joan and Fred in top form...

If you like the kind of spy-romance yarns spun out by Hollywood in the 1940s--the kind with tongue-in-cheek dialogue that lets you know you're not supposed to take any of it too seriously--you'll enjoy this amusing, yet suspenseful film in which Conrad Veidt plays a "nice guy" for a change. Honeymooners Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray are asked by British intelligence to do some spying while on their European jaunt. The agreeable pair go along with a plan that has them on the trail of an agent and in and out of dangerous situations as they are pursued by Basil Rathbone, chilling as usual as a Nazi.

Good entertainment with some amusing dialogue and light-hearted performances by Joan and Fred that indicate they should have been teamed more than once. As it is, this is Joan Crawford's last film at Metro after seventeen years with the studio and comes just two years before "Mildred Pierce" at Warners. Good cast and fine production values make it an absorbing treat.