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Above Suspicion (Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray; TIME...
Above Suspicion (Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray; TIME...
Above Suspicion (M.G.M.) is something new in Joan Crawford pictures. Instead of setting a special table for her saucer-eyed talents, it all but relegates Miss Crawford to playing stooge to pouty Fred MacMurray. Still worse, Joan's usually endless array of hats is reduced to a bare subsistence level...
MacMurray & Crawford are an American and his bride in prewar Germany, but not on anything so innocent as a honeymoon. In quest of a secret which Great Britain needs to know they get involved in disguises, a Liszt-accompanied murder, battles with the Gestapo. They also run afoul of such suspicious figures as Basil Rathbone and Conrad Veidt. Strangely enough, it all adds up to a better-than-average summertime melodrama...
...Miss Crawford it is not much of an event to mark her departure from M.G.M., where she has been a big name ever since the gin-drenched days of Our Dancing Daughters (1928). Her new boss: Warner's. Reported inducement: "an executive...