One, Two, Three (1961)
Country: US
Technical: bw/scope 115m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis
Synopsis:
The executive of a Coca Cola bottling plant in Berlin finds his well ordered existence thrown into turmoil and his hopes of promotion put under threat when he must babysit the wayward nubile daughter of a company superior back home.
Review:
Exhausting, exhilarating farce with satirical trimmings. Every topical reference imaginable is crammed into the rapid fire script, from the Algerian war to Kruschev's banging his shoe, and the star receives not a few homages to his own persona. Nevertheless he took retirement after this trying shoot, when being asked to do what he did in Warner Bros pics thirty years previously evidently proved too much (you wouldn't know from the evidence here). An extraordinarily dated enterprise in a way, even for 1961, but it works because Wilder doesn't give you time to think and the gags come so thick that even if some of them misfire it doesn't matter.
Country: US
Technical: bw/scope 115m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis
Synopsis:
The executive of a Coca Cola bottling plant in Berlin finds his well ordered existence thrown into turmoil and his hopes of promotion put under threat when he must babysit the wayward nubile daughter of a company superior back home.
Review:
Exhausting, exhilarating farce with satirical trimmings. Every topical reference imaginable is crammed into the rapid fire script, from the Algerian war to Kruschev's banging his shoe, and the star receives not a few homages to his own persona. Nevertheless he took retirement after this trying shoot, when being asked to do what he did in Warner Bros pics thirty years previously evidently proved too much (you wouldn't know from the evidence here). An extraordinarily dated enterprise in a way, even for 1961, but it works because Wilder doesn't give you time to think and the gags come so thick that even if some of them misfire it doesn't matter.
Country: US
Technical: bw/scope 115m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis
Synopsis:
The executive of a Coca Cola bottling plant in Berlin finds his well ordered existence thrown into turmoil and his hopes of promotion put under threat when he must babysit the wayward nubile daughter of a company superior back home.
Review:
Exhausting, exhilarating farce with satirical trimmings. Every topical reference imaginable is crammed into the rapid fire script, from the Algerian war to Kruschev's banging his shoe, and the star receives not a few homages to his own persona. Nevertheless he took retirement after this trying shoot, when being asked to do what he did in Warner Bros pics thirty years previously evidently proved too much (you wouldn't know from the evidence here). An extraordinarily dated enterprise in a way, even for 1961, but it works because Wilder doesn't give you time to think and the gags come so thick that even if some of them misfire it doesn't matter.