Nazi villains were a staple of early 1940s Hollywood movies, especially after the United States’ entry into World War II following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

Above Suspicion, a 122-minute film released by MGM in 1943 and broadcast on the Turner Classic Movie channel recently, was model of this fairly short-lived phenomenon, which included movies such as The Mortal Storm (1940) and Man Hunt (1941).

Directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Fred MacMurray and Joan Crawford, two of the most popular actors of that era, Above Suspicion was one of Hollywood’s contribution to the anti-Nazi crusade.

An espionage thriller set in Britain, France and Germany on the eve of World War II , it stars MacMurray and Crawford as a newly-wed couple, Richard and Frances Myles, who look forward to a honeymoon on the European continent.

Their trip is suddenly interrupted by a British Foreign Office functionary, who asks Myles, an Oxford University professor, whether he would be amenable to carrying out a “little errand.” In........

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