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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 20, 1948 |
Starring:
Boyd Davis, Jean Arthur, John Lund, Marlene Dietrich, Millard Mitchell, Peter von Zerneck, Raymond Bond, Robert Malcolm, Stanley Prager, William Murphy
Summary:
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
That great ex-Berliner Wilder's cynical, darkly funny look at postwar Berlin--a hive of bombed-out buildings, desperate citizens and black-market morality, run by the U.S. military with a slightly blind eye. [02 Jun 2006, p.C4]
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, notably a seduction among a row of filing cabinets and Dietrich's club act, not to mention a crackling script.
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Often seems on the verge of being funny, but the humor is too clumsily forced.
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