One, Two, Three 1961

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 115 min

genre: political

theme: war

director: Billy Wilder

Score: 6 / 10

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 film stars James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Leon Askin and Howard St. John. 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 her.

Awards

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

Cast

More details

author	Billy Wilder I. A. L. Diamond
award	National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Berlin Coca-Cola Niederlassung (Berlin-Lichterfelde)
director	Billy Wilder
editor	Daniel Mandell
events	Cold War
genre	comedy political
keywords	17th century a long line of bleeders adopt american civil war american spy anti-americanism arrest atlanta bos bourgeoisie civil war coca-cola headquarters communist communist party cuckoo clock east german east german police east germany end force haemophilia help how to impoverish itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini married middle east moscow new life ottoman empire ottoman turks pepsi-cola polka dot race against time socialist unity party of germany socialite southern southern belle southern united states soviet union the coca-cola company the wall street journal uncle sam unmarried vending machine volkspolizei wall street wall street journal wedding present west berlin west germany yankee
musicBy	André Previn
nomination	Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
producer	Billy Wilder
productionCompany	The Mirisch Company
publisher	United Artists
recordedAt	Bavaria Studios Berlin Coca-Cola Niederlassung (Berlin-Lichterfelde) Germany
theme	satirical war