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Until now, Billy Wilder’s 1948 “A Foreign Affair” has only been
available as a BitTorrent download. But now thanks to Youtube, you
can watch this fascinating 1948 film in 12 parts.
For those of who are unfamiliar with arguably one of America’s
greatest director/screenwriters let me mention a few of the films
he is associated with in either capacity: “Ninotchka”, “Double
Indemnity”, “A Lost Weekend”, “Sunset Boulevard”, “Stalag 17″,
“Some Like it Hot”, and “The Apartment”.
In both his comedies and his serious dramas, you will often find a
lead character, either male of female, who can be described as
either a cynic or illusion-free. William Holden is the archetypal
Wilder hero (or anti-hero to be more exact.) In “Stalag 17″, he
plays J.J. Sefton, an American soldier in a Nazi prison camp
(Stalag) and opportunistic black marketeer redeemed in the climax
through his leadership of a prison break. Here he is challenged
earlier on by a fellow prisoner:
Duke: Come on, Trader Horn, let’s hear it. What’d you give the
krauts for that egg?
Sefton: 45 cigarettes. Price has gone up.
Duke: They wouldn’t be the cigarettes you took us for last night?
Sefton: What was I gonna do with them? I only smoke cigars.
Duke: Niiice guy. The krauts shoot Manfredi and Johnson last
night, and today he’s out trading with them.
Sefton: Look. This may be my last hot breakfast on account of
they’re going to take that stove out of here, so would you let me
eat it in peace?
full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/a-foreign-affair/
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