I watched this one the first time and just forgot it. However I watched it again and saw that I completely missed how good it is. Not great but certainly worth watching.
It has a decent enough story line about a young air force sergeant falling for a local Berlin Fraulein, only to find out that she lied to him about her husband not being in the SS during the war and then she lied to him again to try to get him to marry her so she could get to the US and then divorce him and go to her real beloved, I assume the afore mention SS hubby, now living in Missouri, US. Maybe not pure evil but definitely self absorbed. Unfortunately she probably polished up her act and managed to keep the next poor schmo who came along and got what she wanted in the end. Anyway....
But the best parts to me was showing postwar Berlin, still chock full of rubble. Even Rhein-Main airfield when it was still dirt. Much improved by the time I went through there in the 70's. A nice documentation of Germany shortly after the war. And being made in 1950, this was what it must have looked like around town, during the airlift...except for in color. A nice glimpse of what postwar Berlin was like, complete with a trip through the Russian sector.
And speaking of Russians, who knew Russian spies could be as lovable as Herr Stieber? The GIs were as good as some Hollywood actors I could mention and they really fleshed out the movie. And a lesson: Revenge is not necessarily sweet, taught to a tough former POW.
All in all a decent enough movie. Worth watching.
It has a decent enough story line about a young air force sergeant falling for a local Berlin Fraulein, only to find out that she lied to him about her husband not being in the SS during the war and then she lied to him again to try to get him to marry her so she could get to the US and then divorce him and go to her real beloved, I assume the afore mention SS hubby, now living in Missouri, US. Maybe not pure evil but definitely self absorbed. Unfortunately she probably polished up her act and managed to keep the next poor schmo who came along and got what she wanted in the end. Anyway....
But the best parts to me was showing postwar Berlin, still chock full of rubble. Even Rhein-Main airfield when it was still dirt. Much improved by the time I went through there in the 70's. A nice documentation of Germany shortly after the war. And being made in 1950, this was what it must have looked like around town, during the airlift...except for in color. A nice glimpse of what postwar Berlin was like, complete with a trip through the Russian sector.
And speaking of Russians, who knew Russian spies could be as lovable as Herr Stieber? The GIs were as good as some Hollywood actors I could mention and they really fleshed out the movie. And a lesson: Revenge is not necessarily sweet, taught to a tough former POW.
All in all a decent enough movie. Worth watching.