August 22 movie: Above Suspicion. I really, really need to write these movies up right when I watch them. It's been two weeks and I've forgotten this one. I have to look it up in IMDB.
Oh right. This is a thriller made during WWII, but set before the war, with Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray as American tourists who are asked by the British to spy on Germany. They treat it as a fun game at first, but the game quickly turns serious.
TCM also showed a documentary about Joan Crawford, and they showed a clip from this movie as an example of Crawford's first career slump, the one she ended with Mildred Pierce. Fred MacMurray as a costar was definitely a step down from Clark Gable. The thing I didn't like about this movie was that it didn't seem like a Joan Crawford movie. There wasn't anything about her character that made it work for her; it could have been played by anyone. In fact, it wasn't really well-suited to Crawford and the movie might have been better with someone else in her part.
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