A Foreign Affair (1948)

Directors

Billy Wilder

Cast

Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell, Peter von Zerneck, Stanley Prager, William Murphy

The story

In 1947 in post-World War II Berlin, prim Iowa congresswoman Phoebe Frost arrives with a congressional committee on a fact-finding mission to investigate the morale of American occupation troops reportedly infected by a "moral malaria." Corruption runs rampant, with troops taking advantage of supply shortages to gain profit as well as privileges from local women. Military officials defend the behavior of the troops. Phoebe arrives with a birthday cake for a constituent's boyfriend, Captain John Pringle.

Genres

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