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One, Two, Three

Country: USA, Language: English, 115 mins

  • Director: Billy Wilder
  • Writer: Ferenc Molnár; Billy Wilder
  • Producer: I.A.L. Diamond; Doane Harrison

CGiii Comment

A ridiculous story played ridiculously by Cagney.

There's a sissy, some cross-dressing and Cold War paranoia.

Vacuous and vile.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Post-war Berlin is the microcosm of the polarization of West and East; American and Soviet. C.R. MacNamara's Coca-Cola's head of West Berlin operations, His life goes into a spin when he must deal with the visit of Scarlett Hazeltine; the 17yo spoilt daughter of his boss. On the same day Mac hears Mr. & Mrs. Hazeltine will be iarriving in a day, he also learns Scarlett's married Otto Ludwig Piffl, a staunch East German Communist. Mac also learns Scarlett's pregnant, Mac has to get Otto, and turn him into a respectable young man for the soon-to-be arriving boss... and Otto's father-in-law.

Cast & Characters

James Cagney as C.R. MacNamara;
Horst Buchholz as Otto Ludwig Piffl;
Pamela Tiffin as Scarlett Hazeltine;
Arlene Francis as Phyllis MacNamara;
Howard St. John as Wendell P. Hazeltine;
Hanns Lothar as Schlemmer;
Leon Askin as Peripetchikoff;
Ralf Wolter as Borodenko;
Karl Lieffen as Fritz;
Hubert von Meyerinck as Count von Droste Schattenburg;
Lois Bolton as Melanie Hazeltine;
Peter Capell as Mishkin;
Til Kiwe as Reporter;
Henning Schluter as Dr. Bauer;
Karl Ludwig Lindt as Zeidlitz