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A Foreign Affair

1948, Movie, NR, 116 mins

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A stinging satirical look at black marketeering in post WW II Berlin, A FOREIGN AFFAIR has Arthur heading a congressional investigation into the corruptive moral influence Germans are having on occupying GIs. Arthur arrives with a birthday cake for Lund, baked by one of his old girl friends in the US. He immediately sells the cake for a mattress, which he presents to his German sweetie, Dietrich, an aristocrat turned torch singer in a Berlin bistro, the Lorelei. Arthur prete... read more leave a comment
A prim Congresswoman (Jean Arthur) gets caught up in the romantic decadence of post-war Germany. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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Posted: 8/1/2008
Two brothers (David Arquette and Tim Blake Nelson), unable to take care of themselves after their mother dies, go to Russia to find a wife to share between them.
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Posted: 12/19/2009
Year: 1948
Rated NR

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Cast
Jean Arthur: Phoebe Frost
Marlene Dietrich: Erika von Schluetow
John Lund: Capt. John Pringle
Millard Mitchell: Col. Rufus J. Plummer
William Murphy: Joe
Stanley Prager: Mike

 

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