Above Suspicion (1943 film)
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| Above Suspicion | |
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| Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
| Produced by | Victor Saville Leon Gordon (associate producer) |
| Written by | Helen MacInnes (novel Above Suspicion) Keith Winter |
| Starring | Joan Crawford Fred MacMurray Conrad Veidt Basil Rathbone |
| Music by | Bronislau Kaper (musical score) Eric Zeisl (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Robert H. Planck |
| Editing by | George Hively James E. Newcom (uncredited) |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | May 1943 |
| Running time | 90 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Above Suspicion is a 1943 MGM film based on a novel by Helen MacInnes, and stars Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt and Basil Rathbone. In the film, Crawford and MacMurray are an American newlywed couple, who find themselves working for the British Secret Service.
The film is directed by Richard Thorpe based on a novel by Helen MacInnes. The subject of the film takes place in 1939, while on a honeymoon an Oxford don (MacMurray) is approached by the Foreign Office to gather information about Germany prior to the second world war. They are requested get information back from an unknown source in Germany and ask for assistance from an agent there. At first, the American couple find following the secret trail great fun but as they get deeper into southern Germany they encounter the yet unknown dark side of the third Reich and blood starts to run.
This film was the last Joan Crawford made for MGM before once again being labeled box office poison (the first time was for The Bride Wore Red in 1937) and being subtlety dropped by Louis B. Mayer. This was dramatized in the film Mommie Dearest where Joan Crawford was portrayed by Faye Dunaway. Crawford did not have another film released for two years until Mildred Pierce was released in 1945 which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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- 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
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