Fresh
As usual, it's more clever than meaningful, but this 1948 film is one of his most satisfactory in wit and pace.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
A Foreign Affair
It would make a cigar store Indian laugh ...
1948 · 1h 56m · APPROVED
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Overview
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
Director and cast
- Billy Wilder Director
- Jean Arthur as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost
- Marlene Dietrich as Erika Von Schluetow
- John Lund as Capitaine John Pringle
- Millard Mitchell as Colonel Rufus Plummer
- Peter von Zerneck as Hans Otto Birgel
- Stanley Prager as Mike
- William Murphy as Joe
- Raymond Bond as Pennecot
- Boyd Davis as Giffin
- Robert Malcolm as Kramer
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A dandy entertainment which has some shrewd and realistic things to say.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
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.
Time Out
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