Fresh
The screenplay, based on a one-act play by Ferenc Molnar, is outstanding.
Variety Staff, Variety
One, Two, Three
Billy Wilder's Explosive New Comedy
1961 · 1h 49m · Approved
Comedy
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Overview
C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca-Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.
Director and cast
- Billy Wilder Director
- James Cagney as C.R. MacNamara
- Horst Buchholz as Otto Ludwig Piffl
- Pamela Tiffin as Scarlett Hazeltine
- Arlene Francis as Phyllis MacNamara
- Liselotte Pulver as Fräulein Ingeborg
- Hanns Lothar as Schlemmer
- Howard St. John as Wendell P. Hazeltine
- Leon Askin as Peripetchikoff
- Ralf Wolter as Borodenko
- Karl Lieffen as Fritz
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The pace is blistering, and Wilder's deep-seated hatred of Germans has never been put to more comic use.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Marvellous one-liners, of course, and Cagney, spitting out his lines with machine-gun rapidity...
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
One, Two, Three celebrates as it satirizes American cultural imperialism.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
It is one with which you can laugh -- with its own impudence toward foreign crises -- while laughing at its rowdy spinning jokes.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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