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    One, Two, Three (1961)

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    Billy Wilder’s madcap comedy takes place in a corporate Cold War Berlin.

    James Cagney plays Mac, an American Coca-Cola executive holed up in the West side and hell-bent on giving a good impression of himself in the hope of being promoted. But his plans are put at risk when he’s asked to keep a watchful eye over his humourless boss’s dim-witted daughter during her stay in the capital.

    When the day before her father’s arrival, Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin) reveals she’s married the scruffy beatnik Otto Piffl (Horst Buchholz) – an outspoken supporter of the People’s Republic of East Germany – Mac is sent into a freewheeling frenzy with trying to repair the situation.

    In and out of the Brandenburg Gate, then a militarised checkpoint, in his card-carrying capitalist’s car, he buys favours with six-packs of soda and coaxes libidinous Soviets on-side with his curvaceous secretary.

    Chock-full of national and political stereotypes, women don’t come off too well in this picture, but then nor does anyone else.

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    C.R. MacNamara
    James Cagney
    Otto Ludwig Piffl
    Horst Buchholz
    Scarlett Hazeltine
    Pamela Tiffin
    Phyllis MacNamara
    Arlene Francis
    Ingeborg
    Liselotte (Lilo) Pulver
    Hazeltine
    Howard St. John
    Schlemmer
    Hanns Lothar
    Mrs Melanie Hazeltine
    Lois Bolton
    Peripetchikoff
    Leon Askin
    Mishkin
    Peter Capell
    Borondenko
    Ralf Wolter
    Fritz
    Karl Lieffen
    Dr Bauer
    Henning Schlüter
    Count von Drost-Schattenburg
    Hubert von Meyerinck
    Zeidlitz
    Karl Ludwig Lindt
    Tommy MacNamara
    John Allen
    Cindy MacNamara
    Christine Allen
    Bertha
    Rose Renee Roth

    Director
    Billy Wilder

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