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Bookmark this pageOne, Two, Three (1961)
Director: Billy Wilder
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From Time Out Film Guide
Coarse Cold War satire, structured largely as farce, with Cagney as the aggressive Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin, trying desperately to win advancement by selling the beverage to Russia, and simultaneously required to prevent his boss from discovering that the latter's bird-brained daughter has married a rabid Commie from East Berlin. Marvellous one-liners, of course, and Cagney, spitting out his lines with machine-gun rapidity in his final film until his belated appearance in 'Ragtime', is superb (and superbly backed by a fine cast). But the targets of Wilder's satire - go-getting, up-to-the-minute, consumer America versus the poverty and outdatedness of Communist culture - are rather too obvious.Author: GA
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- iain45 said...
- Posted on Oct 26 2008 20:50 Great Cold War satire, worth it alone for a magnificent James Cagney performance.
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Cast & crew
Director: Billy Wilder
Producer: Billy Wilder
Cast: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Lilo Pulver, Howard St John, Hanns Lothar, Leon Askin, Red Buttons full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 115 mins
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