One, Two, Three
Time Out says
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.
Details
Release details
Duration:
115 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Billy Wilder
Screenwriter:
Billy Wilder, IAL Diamond
Cast:
James Cagney
Horst Buchholz
Pamela Tiffin
Arlene Francis
Lilo Pulver
Howard St John
Hanns Lothar
Leon Askin
Red Buttons
Horst Buchholz
Pamela Tiffin
Arlene Francis
Lilo Pulver
Howard St John
Hanns Lothar
Leon Askin
Red Buttons