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MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS
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MOTION • PICTURE • REVIEWS
Published bi-monthly for
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Vol. XVIII MAY AND JUNE No. 2
Copyright 1942 by Motion Picture Reviews
FEATURE FILMS
ABOVE SUSPICION O O
Joan Crawford, Fred McMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen, Richard Ainley, Cecil Cunningham, Ann Shoemaker, Sara Haden, Johanna Hope, Felix Bressart. From the novel by Helen Innes. Screen play by Keith Winter, Melville Baser and Patricia Coleman. Direction by Richard Thorpe. M-G-M.
“Above Suspicion,” from the novel by that same name, is an exciting story of a dangerous mission into Nazi-dominated Germany in 1939 to obtain the blueprints of a secret weapon. On the first day of their honeymoon, an American-born Oxford professor, Richard Myles, and his wife are waylaid by a member of the British Foreign Office and persuaded to take the assignment because, as care-free vacationers bound for the Tyrol, they will be “above suspicion.” They are given the names of no agents, only the mysterious symbol of the rose, which as a flower in the wife’s hat, in musical refrains and in pointed conversations, leads them from one rendezvous to another. In Germany they encounter two former Oxford students, one who has run afoul of the Gestapo, and the other who becomes more sinister as their venture progresses and puts them in imminent peril of their lives. Toward the end the action is hair-raising, but one feels sure the two Americans will survive, because it is that kind of a story.
An amusing flow of dialogue, sometimes on the sophisticated side, keeps the film from
becoming too heavy. The photography is very interesting, particularly in the scenes from the Liszt festival, and the beautiful concert music is introduced with telling effect. Fred McMurray and Joan Crawford do good team work, while especially fine performances are turned in by Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone and Richard Ainley.
Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
Fairly sophisticated Frightening
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ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC O O
Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene, Dane Clark, Peter Whitney, Minor Watson, J. M. Kerrigan, Dick Hogan, Kane Richmond, Chic Chandler, George Offerman, Jr., Ludwig Stossel, Frank Puglia, Dick Wessel, Iris Adrian. Musical score by Adolph Deutch. Direction by Lloyd Bacon. Warner Bros.
This is a thrilling story of the sea and a great tribute to the men and officers of the Merchant Marine. The title is especially fitting because there is almost continuous action, violent, awesome and exciting. Even the bravest men acknowledge fear of the hazards they may encounter, but the film clarifies why these men return to the service in spite of their slim chance of survival.
The story opens when a tanker is torpedoed. Some of the officers and crew are saved, and after a few days on shore, where we see a little of their home background, they sign again on a Liberty ship, the Sea