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
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One, Two, Three
Overview
In Cold War-era West Berlin, American Coca-Cola executive C.R. 'Mac' MacNamara is tasked with playing babysitter to his boss' spoiled 17-year-old daughter Scarlett, who proves more difficult than anticipated when she reveals that she is pregnant by 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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