A Foreign Affair (1948)

Jean Arthur is a sourpuss congresswoman who's part of a government mission to check up on the American boys occupying post World War II Germany. What she discovers is that the armed forces spend their off-duty hours basically trading candy and knick-knacks for sexual favors from the local girls. What was being played for laughs was actually really sordid, from my point of view. These people who'd had their lives torn apart were being preyed upon by opportunistic louts -- it was disgusting.

Anyway. Dietrich's a femme fatale with her hooks in an army captain who pretends to woo Arthur in order to throw her off of his scent. His pretense turns real and it's supposed to be comic gold. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past the depressing setting.

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