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Movies on this page: Above and Beyond, Above Suspicion, Above us the Waves, The Accompanist, Action in the North Atlantic, The Adventures of Werner Holt, Air Force, All Through the Night, The Americanization of Emily

Above and Beyond

Released: 1952
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Staring: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating

Drama telling the story of Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

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Above Suspicion

Released: 1943
Director: Richard Thorpe
Staring: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone

MacMurray and Crawford play newlyweds on holiday in Europe who are recruited by the Bristish Secret Service to find one of their agents missing in pre-war Nazi Germany.

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Above us the Waves

Released: 1955
Director: Ralph Thomas
Staring: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden

The German battleship Tirpitz is attacked in a Norwegian fjord by British midget submarines.

The Accompanist

Released: 1993
Director: Claude Miller
Staring: Richard Bohringer, Yelena Safonova, Romane Bohringer, Samuel Labarthe

Love and betrayal in German-occupied Paris.

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Action in the North Atlantic

Released: 1943
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Staring: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop

Lots of action in the North Atlantic as a US Merchant ship convoy tries to dodge the Germans. Massey is a "liberty ship" captain and Bogart his first mate.

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The Adventures of Werner Holt

Released: 1963
Director: Joachim Kunert
Staring: Klaus-Peter Thiele

Eastern Front drama following the fortunes of a young German soldier in 1943.

Air Force

Released: 1943
Director: Howard Hawks
Staring: John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias, Harry Carey

Arial excitement involving the crew of a B-17 bomber in the Pacific theatre. 

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All Through the Night

Released: 1942
Director: Vincent Sherman
Staring: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh, Peter Lorre

A slight but enjoyable comedy-thriller, All Through the Night offers Humphrey Bogart as Gloves Donahue, a Big Apple high-roller whose fondness for cheesecake ultimately pits him against Nazi saboteurs and fifth columnists. Bogart, having fun with a lighter variation on the gunsels that were his cinematic calling card, makes Gloves a natty, wise-cracking gambler and petty crook who can't be bothered to look beyond the sports page as the story opens. By the final reel, however, he's considerably better informed on current events, transformed into a newly minted, patriotic vigilante ready to "knock those heels on their Axis."

In line with Hollywood's own surging patriotism of the day, the script is cheerful propaganda that makes good use of Conrad Veidt as the fanatical chief saboteur (complete with dachsund!), Peter Lorre as a leering trigger man, and Judith Anderson as the spy ring's coldly elegant second-in-command. When their top secret plan to sabotage the newest U.S. battleship leads them to murder the kindly German who bakes Gloves' favorite cheesecake, Bogart and a wonderful cast of shady good guys (including William Demarest, Frank McHugh, Barton MacLane, Phil Silvers, and a very young but already flamboyant, double-talking Jackie Gleason) are drawn into the intrigue. Helping heighten Bogie's curiosity is a blonde German nightclub singer (Kaaren Verne) with her own dangerous secret.

It's worth noting that another 1942 Bogart vehicle from the same producer (Hal B. Wallis) shared several key supporting players, another patriotic (and arguably propagandist) subtext, and even a pale-haired European love interest. Instead of a Damon Runyon-esque New York, however, it was set overseas--in Casablanca. © Amazon.com

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