One, Two, Three
One, Two, Three is a 1961 American political comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. It is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, kettő, három by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowed partly from" Ninotchka, a 1939 film co-written by Wilder. The comedy features James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Leon Askin, Howard St. John, and others. It would be Cagney's last film appearance until Ragtime in 1981, 20 years later.
Plot
C.R. "Mac" MacNamara is a high-ranking executive in the Coca-Cola Company, assigned to West Berlin after a business fiasco a few years earlier in the Middle East (about which he is still bitter). While based in West Germany for now, Mac is angling to become head of Western European Coca-Cola Operations, based in London. After working on an arrangement to introduce Coke into the Soviet Union, Mac receives a call from his boss, W.P. Hazeltine, at Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta. Scarlett Hazeltine, the boss's hot-blooded but slightly dim 17-year-old socialite daughter, is coming to West Berlin. Mac is assigned the unenviable task of taking care of this young whirlwind.
Awards
Cast
- Abi von Hasse
- Arlene Francis
- Friedrich Hollaender
- Gernot Duda
- Hanns Lothar
- Helmut Schmid
- Henning Schlüter
- Horst Buchholz
- Howard St. John
- Hubert von Meyerinck
- Jacques Chevalier
- James Cagney
- Jaspar Oertzen
- Josef Coesfeld
- Karl Lieffen
- Karl Ludwig Lindt
- Klaus Becker
- Leon Askin
- Liselotte Pulver
- Loïs Bolton
- Max Buchsbaum
- Otto Friebel
- Pamela Tiffin
- Paul Bös
- Peter Capell
- Ralf Wolter
- Red Buttons
- Rose Renée Roth
- Siegfried Dornbusch
- Sig Ruman
- Til Kiwe
- Werner Buttler
- Werner Hessenland