A Foreign Affair (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 6, 2019
- Originally Released: 2019
- Label: KL Studio Classics
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:
...A gem....Wilder mixes light romance with hard-boiled wit... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
...Very entertaining... -- 3 out of 4 stars
USA Today
The bitterness of A Foreign Affair is thus likely to linger after its laughs have passed.
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Los Angeles Times
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)
Rating: 4/5 --
A dandy entertainment which has some shrewd and realistic things to say.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
A stinging satirical look at black marketeering in post WW II Berlin.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
Jean Arthur stars as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost in Wilder's satire of American sexual mores. She arrives in bombed-out postwar Berlin in 1947 as part of a congressional delegation assigned to investigate the moral behavior of the American occupying troops. As part of her mission, she delivers a cake baked by his fiancee to Capt. John Pringle (John Lund), who immediately trades it on the black market for a mattress, which he takes to the apartment of his current girlfriend, Erika von Schluetow (Marlene Dietrich), an alluring German nightclub singer. While touring the city, researching the G.I.s appetite for blond German women and alcohol, Phoebe, mistaken for a German, is picked up by some of the soldiers and taken to a club which features the singing of Erika. When she sees a familiar cake being served, she becomes suspicious and orders John to watch the woman's apartment to identify her American lover. After seeing some newsreel footage of Erika with Hitler, Phoebe asks John to show her the woman's file, but he distracts her from further investigation by coming on to the congresswoman, who responds with surprising passion. A comedy edged with cruelty, it features one of Dietrich's quintessential performances.
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