One, Two, Three (Region B)

One of director Billy Wilders most frenetic comedies, the madcap Cold War and corporate politics satire One, Two, Three has to be one of the only films almost capable of making its Wilder predecessors Some Like It Hot and The Apartment seem sedately paced in comparison. Featuring a hilarious lead performance by James Cagney (apparently so exhausted by the rapid-fire pace that he then retired for twenty years!), One, Two, Three hasnt always been as famous as Wilders other comedies, but its among his best.

Cagney is C.R. Mac MacNamara, a top Coca-Cola executive shipped off to (then West) Berlin and told to keep an eye on his boss 17-year-old Atlanta socialite daughter Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin) while she visits Germany. Scarletts tour seems endless, and Mac discovers shes fallen for a (then East) Berlin communist agitator and the young couple are bound for Moscow! Mac has to bust up the burgeoning romance before his boss learns the truth, all the wh