Matthäi, however, believes the peddler was innocent and that the culprit is a serial killer who has murdered two other little girls and may strike again. That night the peddler hangs himself in his cell. The villagers think the peddler was the murderer, as does Matthäi's successor who, after a long hard interrogation, gets a confession. It shows a tall man in a long black coat, a large black car, a little girl, a horned creature, and some black hedgehogs. He goes to the little girls' school, where another child points out a picture the dead girl had drawn. Distraught, the mother asks him to swear that he will find the killer. With the peddler he inspects the site and, when none of the other police volunteer, says he will tell the parents. In all, Above Suspicion was a fun and entertaining film and worth your time if only to see it once.Matthäi, a senior detective with the Zürich police, is about to take up a post in the Middle East when a call comes in that a peddler has found the body of a little girl in the woods. It is a little sad to watch this picture now and not think about what happened to its main actor, but with movies we can at least escape that and immerse ourselves in a world where everything is all right. It may have been a little slowly paced in places and some of the acting, particularly by Edward Kerr, a little amateurish, but it was a taut and suspenseful film. It is actually a little weird to think he had a career before playing Agent Coulson.Īgain, the ending of the film makes it all worth it. Probably the most interesting discovery you make when watching this film today is seeing a young Clark Gregg, someone you would have just glossed over at the time of its release but who is now an important part of the Marvel cinematic universe as well as starring weekly in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Thankfully she could act too, though there was not much more required from her other than to be the eye-candy of the movie. The beautiful Kim Cattrall who was in her prime when this film was made, would play Reeve’s scheming and cheating wife and would seem to have no qualms about only wearing her birthday suit in multiple scenes of the film. After discovering that his brother has been sleeping with his wife, he sets up an elaborate plan to get back at them, one with a real finality to it and Mantegna is a police officer who cannot help but think something is definitely wrong with the case and that Reeve’s character Dempsey Cain had something to do with it.įor his part Mantegna was pretty decent as Alan Rhineheart, giving his character the level of dogged determination needed to catch Cain in the act or to at least prove that he was responsible for the crime that was committed. Reeve plays a former police officer, injured in the line of duty which paralyses him from the waist down.
Imdb above suspicion 1995 movie#
This movie of course is also popular due to the little twist it gives as well as that phenomenal ending which sees Reeve get the better of his counterpart, Joe Mantegna. Of course, he may have made some mistakes along the way as not every film he did was a winner, but every actor and actress has done the same thing. The man was versatile and only took roles that he believed in that would further himself and his skills. The man had a quiet, brooding intensity about him and as such, it always benefited the work whether he was playing Superman, a writer in Somewhere in Time or a doctor in the Village of the Damned. Whether before or after his accident, you could always count on a good performance from Christopher Reeve as he was a consumate actor. Macy of all people, not to mention Jerry Lazarus and Steven Schachter as well. Maybe he was, maybe he was not and who can really say, but putting all of that aside, the film is actually a decent little thriller that never fails to entertain in many different ways.
Combined with his real life tragedy at the time and it almost seemed like he was tempting fate. More than anything else, this picture is famous for the fact that it was the last picture Christopher Reeve made before an accident that took away the use of his legs and while accidents happen all time, in this film it was more for the fact that he also played a person who was paralysed within it.
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