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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 15, 2003
• R2: 7 Jun 2004
Budget $3,000,000
Running Time
1 hour, 55 minutes
Country USA
Studio United Artists
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Other Titles
• One, Two, Three
• Eins, zwei, drei (1961)
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Genre: Comedy, Love, Political, On The Road, Satire, Farce, Marriage, Infidelity
Plot: Billy Wilder's Cold War satire, derived from an energetic Molnar comedy the director had seen in 1929, probably owes as much to NINOTCHKA, perhaps the best known film of his idol Ernst Lubitsch. It stars James Cagney as C.J. MacNamara, a Coca-Cola executive who comes to West Berlin to promote the sugary brew on the other side of the Iron Curtain, hoping, in the process, to be promoted to the post of director of West European operations. He soon learns that his real job is babysitting his boss's 17-year-old daughter Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin), who has secretly married volatile Communist Otto Piffl (Horst Bucholz) during her soujourn. By the time McNamara learns this small detail, his boss (Howard St. John) is about to arrive in Berlin. After he gets Piffl arrested by the East German police, who torture him by forcing him to listen to "Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-dot Bikini" repeatedly, C.J. finds out that Scarlett is pregnant, and realizes he has only twelve hours to get Piffl released and turn him into an acceptable son-in-law for his boss. Wilder's anarchic satire targets Communism, Coca-Cola, rock n' roll, bureaucratic inefficiency, teenage lust, middle-aged lust, and everything else which wanders into range in this briskly paced farce, which features a vigorous James
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Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot, Sunset Blvd., Double Indemnity |
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André Previn
Bad Day at Black Rock, Elmer Gantry, Irma la Douce |
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