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One, Two, Three
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7.5In 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.
Cast
- 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
Themes
- prison
- capitalist
- berlin, germany
- capitalism
- clerk
- cold war
- pregnancy
- soviet union
- iron curtain
- totalitarian regime
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
23,993 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
73/100
- Year
- 1961
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 8 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Billy Wilder
- Screenplay by
- I. A. L. Diamond , Billy Wilder
- Based on
- Egy, kettő, három , by Ferenc Molnár
- Produced by
- Billy Wilder
- Starring
- James Cagney , Horst Buchholz , Pamela Tiffin , Arlene Francis
- Cinematography
- Daniel L. Fapp
- Edited by
- Daniel Mandell
- Music by
- André Previn
- Production companies
- The Mirisch Company , Pyramid Productions, A. G.
- Distributed by
- United Artists
- Release date
- December 15, 1961 ( 1961-12-15 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 104 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English German Russian
- Budget
- $3 million or $2 million
- Box office
- $4 million
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Described at
»Wie geht's, mein kleiner Zwetschgenröster?« - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL-Gespräch mit Billy Wilder über seine Filme, seine Stars, seine Pläne
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 459265
- Image
- One two three43.jpg
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- publication date
- 1961-00-00
- title
- One, Two, Three
- described at URL
- www.spiegel.de/kultur/wie-gehts-mein-kleiner-zwetschgenroester-a-7fcaf982-0002-0001-0000-000013518642
- review score
- 73/100
- Commons category
- One, Two, Three
- capital cost
- 3000000
- box office
- 4000000
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Theatrical trailer One, Two, Three is a 1961 American political comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. It is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, kettő, három by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowed partly from" Ninotchka, a 1939 film co-written by Wilder. The film stars James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Leon Askin and Howard St. John. It would be Cagney's last film appearance until Ragtime in 1981, 20 years later.
The film is primarily set in West Berlin during the Cold War, but before the construction of the Berlin Wall, and politics is predominant in the premise. The film is known for its quick pace.