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starring: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell, Peter von Zerneckdirected by: Billy Wilder
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783217475
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
ISBN: 0783217471
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: September 29, 1998
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 6014
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: August 20, 1948
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Rating:  - WHAT ABOUT A DVD?
WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO EDIT THIS ONE IN DVD FORMAT?
Rating: - Post-War Activities
A Foreign Affair is a film about post-WWII Germany filled with demolished buildings, the American army, and sex. Some American Congressmen (and women) go to check on the status of the moral and the troops only to find that things are far different than they are perceived to be back home.
Jean Arthur plays a frumpy Congresswoman out to find corruption and get rid of it. Arthur is funny and appropriately prudish in her role. She is an average beauty with a knack for being nervous and ... Read More
Rating:  - A Black Market Romance
Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett adapted this jewel from a post war novel and the dialogue crackels with wit and intelligence from the first frame on. It is a wonderfully cynical take on The Marshall Plan and how three lives intersect in the bombed out ruins of Berlin, circa 1947. Dietrich is delicious as a caberet singers trying to survive after being a plaything of a Gestapo Colonel. In her late forties, Dietrich lights up the screen she appears to be ageless. Jean Arthur is playing a corn fed, ... Read More
Rating: - over-looked gem!
Billy Wilder was such a genius in film-making,it's astounding. What really set him apart, I think, was his knack for knowing who to cast in what role. What really gives this film its kick, is Marlene Dietrich in a role that proved once and for all that yes, she can act!
Set in Berlin right after the end of World War Two, and at the beginning of the American occupation of their sector of Berlin,
the film is really a dialogue on the human trait of survival through the worst. The main charactors ... Read More
Rating: - An almost unknown classic by a great director!!
Hard to believe this film is barely acknowledged today,except in maybe a cultish way. If Carroll Reeds' THE THIRD MAN was the great post-war Vienna must-see, Billy Wilder's A FOREIGN AFFAIR must be the great post-war Berlin must-see. This one starts out with some of the best aerial footage of bombed-out Berlin ever seen. The ruins seem to go on for miles. Certain burnt-out US soldiers main concerns are making a killing on the black market, and making a hit with the local Frauleins. Mr. Lund's character ... Read More
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