A Foreign Affair
It would make a cigar store Indian laugh ...
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DVD-R Details
- 4 X 3 ASPECT RATIO
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 1, 2014
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich & John Lund | |
Performer: | Millard Mitchell, Stanley Prager, Damian O'Flynn & Frank Fenton | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Screenplay by | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder & Richard L. Breen | |
Original story by | David Shaw | |
Composition by | Friedrich Hollaender | |
Art Direction by | Hans Dreier & Walter Tyler | |
Produced by | Charles Brackett | |
Director of Photography: | Charles Lang |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
A dandy entertainment which has some shrewd and realistic things to say.
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New York Times
Rating: B- --
Despite its predictable story line makes for a somewhat enjoyable satire.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
As usual, it's more clever than meaningful, but this 1948 film is one of his most satisfactory in wit and pace.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
Lesser Billy Wilder with great actresses and a weak leading man.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The bitterness of A Foreign Affair is thus likely to linger after its laughs have passed.
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Los Angeles Times
This may not be Wilder at his best -- the story develops along fairly predictable lines, with Arthur switching her starchy uniform for a glistening evening gown -- but there are some precious set pieces.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
A stinging satirical look at black marketeering in post WW II Berlin.
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TV Guide
Description by OLDIES.com:
Starring Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich, A FOREIGN AFFAIR is a cynical satire that mirrors the bewildering moral climate of the late 1940s. Phoebe Frost Arthur), an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying American forces. She enlists an army captain (John Lund) in her crusade and finds herself falling for him, unaware that he is the man romantically involved with a German cabaret singer Dietrich) who can lead army investigators to a high-level Nazi war criminal.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 11,677
- UPC: 025192139420
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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