Above Suspicion (1943)
Country: US
Technical: bw 91m
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone
Synopsis:
The British Secret Service asks a pair of American newlyweds holidaying in Europe to spy on the Nazis!
Review:
A Hitchcockian comedy-thriller of the wartime variety, with its codes, suave baddies and model scenery. Here the wise-cracking is doggedly American, mostly consisting of patronising remarks about the Germans like: 'Slow down boy (to a Hitler youth), you'll be burnt out before you're twenty-one', which tend to leave a nasty taste in the mouth; the Germans were the last people not to be taken seriously. Not so much an interesting film as an illuminating social-historical document.
Country: US
Technical: bw 91m
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone
Synopsis:
The British Secret Service asks a pair of American newlyweds holidaying in Europe to spy on the Nazis!
Review:
A Hitchcockian comedy-thriller of the wartime variety, with its codes, suave baddies and model scenery. Here the wise-cracking is doggedly American, mostly consisting of patronising remarks about the Germans like: 'Slow down boy (to a Hitler youth), you'll be burnt out before you're twenty-one', which tend to leave a nasty taste in the mouth; the Germans were the last people not to be taken seriously. Not so much an interesting film as an illuminating social-historical document.
Country: US
Technical: bw 91m
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone
Synopsis:
The British Secret Service asks a pair of American newlyweds holidaying in Europe to spy on the Nazis!
Review:
A Hitchcockian comedy-thriller of the wartime variety, with its codes, suave baddies and model scenery. Here the wise-cracking is doggedly American, mostly consisting of patronising remarks about the Germans like: 'Slow down boy (to a Hitler youth), you'll be burnt out before you're twenty-one', which tend to leave a nasty taste in the mouth; the Germans were the last people not to be taken seriously. Not so much an interesting film as an illuminating social-historical document.