One Two Three

One Two Three
by Billy Wilder

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Actor: Arlene Francis, Horst Buchholz, Howard St. John, James Cagney, Pamela Tiffin
Director: Billy Wilder
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; German (Original Language); Russian (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 110 minutes
Release Date: 1994-03-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: James Cagney in a Refreshing movie!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Leave it to Billy Wilder to come up with a great cast in this 1961 gem! James Cagney was at his best in what was his last movie until "Ragtime" some twenty years later. Cagney had all the energy going for him as the Coca-cola executive in West Berlin. Later in the movie we find out the daughter (Pamela Tiffin) who is visiting Berlin decides to go across to East Berlin to date a communist (Horst Buchholz) and the fireworks are flying in this comedy! Yes this is dated but still a great comedy from the early 60s. I enjoyed watching this and so will you. Oh when you have that popcorn beside you, make sure you are sipping your Coca-Cola! One Two Three...It's The Real Thing when it comes to Billy Wilder's comedy!!

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Hardly ever mentioned in the category of lightning-paced comedies--the His Girl Friday and Preston Sturges kind--is this breathless cold war farce from the great Billy Wilder. Adapted from a one-act play by Ferenc Moln?r, Wilder and collaborator I.A.L. Diamond's hilarious screenplay is a whirlwind collection of one-liners, gags, and double-entendres, anchored for the cameras by Jimmy Cagney's cagey and frenetic performance (one of his best), and, under Wilder's direction, executed with diamond-like precision. The gangster-movie icon plays a Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin (the film's 1961 release put it squarely in the middle of the world's laserlike focus on East vs. West tensions) who has parlayed expanding American consumerism into a chance to break through the Iron Curtain and sell "the pause that refreshes" to thirsty comrades. But when his Atlanta boss's visiting 17-year-old daughter (Pamela Tiffin), a boy-crazy Southern tornado, reveals that she has secretly married an American-hating German Commie (Horst Buchholz), Cagney's big-American-fish-in-a-European-pond lifestyle is threatened, especially once Daddy hops a plane to Germany. As the plot accelerates, the lines literally spit out of the cast's mouths--the title refers to Cagney's character's rapid-fire rattling off of lists of tasks--and Wilder's penchant for urbane nastiness is perfectly measured by the order of the whole crazy circus. This movie takes gleeful potshots at both sides of a conflict that terrified audiences in its day, but has aged beautifully to become a fascinating time capsule, an exhilarating litany of zingers and a potent blueprint for razor-sharp political satire. Cagney would retire after this movie for 20 years (returning for 1981's Ragtime), and it's hardly any wonder: he has the energy of 10 performances in this one film. --Robert Abele

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