One, Two, Three
Billy Wilder's Explosive New Comedy
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 30, 2017
- Originally Released: 1961
- Label: KL Studios Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin & Arlene Francis | |
Performer: | Howard St. John, Lilo Pulver, Leon Askin & Peter Capell | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Daniel Mandell | |
Screenplay by | Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond | |
Composition by | André Previn | |
Produced by | Billy Wilder | |
Director of Photography: | Daniel L. Fapp |
Entertainment Reviews:
Marvellous one-liners, of course, and Cagney, spitting out his lines with machine-gun rapidity...
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Time Out
Past the manic frenzy of the screwball comedy are many sly nods to the frosty Cold War relations between the East and the West.
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AV Club
Wilder, predictably, takes as much pleasure in ridiculing western capitalism as communist self-righteousness.
Sight and Sound
The screenplay, based on a one-act play by Ferenc Molnar, is outstanding.
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Variety
A fast-paced post-war farce which never lets up.
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Backseat Mafia
The pace is blistering, and Wilder's deep-seated hatred of Germans has never been put to more comic use.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It would be better to watch this alone as the sound of chuckling in a theater will drown out many of the clever lines.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
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 Cagney in his last leading screen role.
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- Sales Rank: 112,400
- UPC: 738329215590
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