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Above Suspicion (1943)
Not terrible, but...
I'm a huge fan of Helen Macinnes, whose book of the same name is the basis for the movie. Like many books, it didn't get the best conversion to film. Some of my favorite plot points didn't happen, because so many important details were changed.
As a movie, apart from the book, it wasn't terrible. The code words, etc, were delivered clumsily, and would have gotten the Myles killed in the Germany of the book, and the concert sequence was created out of whole cloth. But I suppose they had to have something more exciting for the movie than the subtle tension in the book.
I'm disappointed that it was so different from the book.
Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood (2012)
Terrible, awful, horrible. Plus bad acting!
I'm from southern WV, so I grew up on this story/history. This movie has the right names, but precious little else connects it to the actual Hatfields and McCoys. My husband is a transplanted Pennsylvanian and still knows the details better than presented in this movie.
Hatfields die, McCoys die. Not at the right places, not at the right times, and some are killed by the wrong people!
It appears someone tried to capitalize on the resurgence of interest in the feud back in 2011/2012 and slapped this together. Check out Wikipedia if you want to know what really happened.
Better yet, visit southern WV and/or KY and check it out!