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An American executive in West Berlin tries to sell Coca-Cola to the Russians. At the same time he's hoping to prevent his boss's dumb-blonde daughter from marrying an East German Communist or else he'll have to quickly convert the would-be groom to Capitalism before her parents arrive. Includes original cinema trailer.

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EAN5050070020816

eBay Product ID (ePID)30589910

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ActorJames Cagney, Leon Askin, Arlene Francis, Lilo Pulver, Pamela Tiffin, Horst Buchholz

Film/TV TitleOne, Two, Three

DirectorBilly Wilder

Release Year2004

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesBlack & White

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Run Time104 Mins

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CertificateU

Number of Discs1

ComposerAndre Previn

Additional InformationBilly 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 realises 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 Cagney in his last leading screen role.

ScreenwriterI.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder

Movie/TV TitleOne, Two, Three

Director of PhotographyDaniel Fapp