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20/08/1948 Romance, Comedy 1h 56m
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"A Foreign Affair" is a funny affair!

Overview

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.

  1. Billy Wilder

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jean Arthur

    Congresswoman Phoebe Frost

  2. Marlene Dietrich

    Erika Von Schlüetow

  3. John Lund

    Captain John Pringle

  4. Millard Mitchell

    Col. Rufus J. Plummer

  5. Peter von Zerneck

    Hans Otto Birgel

  6. Stanley Prager

    Mike

  7. William Murphy

    Joe

  8. Gordon Jones

    Military Police

  9. Freddie Steele

    Military Police

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-07-09
Billy Wilder pulls together a great script and two engaging performances from Jean Arthur and Marlene Dietrich in this entertaining story of a US Congresswoman who visits post-war Berlin to check up on the morals of the American troops. She falls for one of them who just happens to be already spoken for. There ensues a bit of a tug-of-war between the two women over the rather charmless John Lund. Millard Mitchell is good value as the war-weary colonel; there are enough Dietrich songs to keep her fans content and we even get a twist at the end. There may well have been some murmurings Stateside...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,500,000.00

Revenue
$5,000,000.00

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