A FOREIGN AFFAIR - DVD

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• Release Year: 1948
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Plot: From Billy Wilder, the legendary director of “Five Graves to Cairo”, “Double Indemnity”, “Some Like it Hot”, “Irma La Douce”, and “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” comes this classic comedy that mixes romance with hard-boiled wit in a story about stiff-necked Iowa congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur, “Easy Living”) mired in a jaded postwar Berlin. As she investigates the morale of American troops, she is cynically wooed by fellow Iowan Captain John Pringle (John Lund, “The Mating Season”), who is trying to cover up his affair with Nazi-tainted chanteuse Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich, “Witness for the Prosecution”). In this often amusing and forever endearing film, Wilder peppers the love story with tart dialogue and satiric jabs at Midwestern naïveté. “A Foreign Affair” features the wonderful character actor Millard Mitchell (“Singin’ in the Rain”) as Colonel Rufus J. Plummer.
• Cast: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell, Peter von Zerneck, Stanley Prager, William Murphy, Raymond Bond, Boyd Davis, Robert Malcolm, Charles Meredith, Michael Raffetto, Damian O'Flynn, Frank Fenton, James Larmore, Harland Tucker, Bill Neff, George M. Carleton, Gordon Jones, Freddie Steele, Nick Abramoff, Ted Cottle, Zina Dennis, Jimmie Dundee, Curt Furburg, Josef Goebbels, Lisa Golm, Leo Gregory, Ilka Grüning, Vilmos Gyimes, Chester Hayes, Len Hendry, Hans Herbert, Friedrich Hollaender, Jerry James, Howard Joslin, George Kachin, Willy Kaufman, Phyllis Kennedy, Henry Kulky, Harry Lauter, Rex Lease, Norman Leavitt, Paul Lees, Ken Lundy, Don Lynch, Gregory Merims, Ralph Montgomery, Bert Moorhouse, Hazard Newsberry, Larry Nunn, Paul Panzer, George Paris, Joe Ploski, Frank Popovich, Otto Reichow, Albin Robeling, Richard Ryen, William Sabbot, William Self, Pat Shade, John Shay, Bill Sheehan, Peter Similuk, Robert J.T. Simpson, Zivko Simunovich, Walter Thiele, George Unanoff, Edward Van Sloan, Jack Vlaskin, Sergei N. Vonevsky, Henry Vroom, Otto Waldis, Fay Wall, Christa Walton, Bobby Watson, Eric Wyland, Frank Yaconelli, Nicholas Zane, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, Robert Harari, David Shaw, Charles Lang
• Director: Billy Wilder
• Runtime: 1:56
• Company: Kino Lorber, Universal
• Media Format: Movie