A Foreign Affair

It would make a cigar store Indian laugh ...
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Format:  DVD-R
item number:  3AD2H
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  • 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

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User Ratings: 1,388
Rating: 4/5 -- A dandy entertainment which has some shrewd and realistic things to say. Full Review
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Rating: B- -- Despite its predictable story line makes for a somewhat enjoyable satire. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dec 7, 2005
As usual, it's more clever than meaningful, but this 1948 film is one of his most satisfactory in wit and pace. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Aug 14, 2007
Rating: 4/5 -- Lesser Billy Wilder with great actresses and a weak leading man.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Nov 27, 2003
The bitterness of A Foreign Affair is thus likely to linger after its laughs have passed. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Apr 29, 2019
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. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 26, 2006
Rating: 3/4 -- A stinging satirical look at black marketeering in post WW II Berlin. Full Review
TV Guide
Aug 14, 2007

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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  • Sales Rank: 11,677
  • UPC: 025192139420
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