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Above Suspicion

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MGM. 91 minutes. US release: 8/6/43. VHS release: 11/13/91.

Cast: Joan Crawford (as "Frances Myles"), Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen, Cecil Cunningham, Richard Ainley, Ann Shoemaker, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, Bruce Lestor, Johanna Hoper, Lotta Palfi, Alex Papana.

Credits: Based on the 1941 novel by Helen MacInnes. Screenplay: Keith Winter, Melville Baker, and Patricia Coleman. Producer: Victor Saville. Director: Richard Thorpe. Camera: Robert Planck. Art Direction: Randall Duell. Music: Bronislau Kaper. Costumes: Irene, Gile Steele.

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Critics' Reviews:

Howard Barnes in the New York Herald Tribune (1943):

    There are so many spies in Above Suspicion that it is hard to keep track of them. There are so many floral, musical, and cryptographical passwords in the film's plot that the whole show becomes a sort of super treasure hunt....Unfortunately, neither Joan Crawford nor Fred MacMurray look quite bright enough to unravel the tangled skeins of this screen melodrama.

T.S. in the New York Times (1943):

    Joan Crawford, after a couple of pretentious roles, is a very convincing heroine.

Hal Erickson in the All Movie Guide:

    The tenor of Above Suspicion can be summed up in a scene in which, after being confronted by a monolingual stormtrooper, Fred MacMurray says in English "Nuts to you, dope!," whereupon the Nazi scratches his head and wonders aloud, "Vass iss das 'dope'?"

Donna Nowak review.

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