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One Two Three
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Product Details
- Starring: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Howard St. John
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Billy Wilder
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- EAN: 9786301971744
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- Format: Black & White, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6301971744
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- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Release Date: 1994-03-02
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- Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1961-12-15
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- Title: One Two Three
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- UPC: 027616088239
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Product Description: Hardly ever mentioned in the category of lightning-paced comedies--the His Girl Friday and Preston Sturges kind--is this breathless cold war farce from the great Billy Wilder. Adapted from a one-act play by Ferenc Molnár, Wilder and collaborator I.A.L. Diamond's hilarious screenplay is a whirlwind collection of one-liners, gags, and double-entendres, anchored for the cameras by Jimmy Cagney's cagey and frenetic performance (one of his best), and, under Wilder's direction, executed with diamond-like precision. The gangster-movie icon plays a Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin (the film's 1961 release put it squarely in the middle of the world's laserlike focus on East vs. West tensions) who has parlayed expanding American consumerism into a chance to break through the Iron Curtain and sell "the pause that refreshes" to thirsty comrades. But when his Atlanta boss's visiting 17-year-old daughter (Pamela Tiffin), a boy-crazy Southern tornado, reveals that she has secretly married an American-hating German Commie (Horst Buchholz), Cagney's big-American-fish-in-a-European-pond lifestyle is threatened, especially once Daddy hops a plane to Germany. As the plot accelerates, the lines literally spit out of the cast's mouths--the title refers to Cagney's character's rapid-fire rattling off of lists of tasks--and Wilder's penchant for urbane nastiness is perfectly measured by the order of the whole crazy circus. This movie takes gleeful potshots at both sides of a conflict that terrified audiences in its day, but has aged beautifully to become a fascinating time capsule, an exhilarating litany of zingers and a potent blueprint for razor-sharp political satire. Cagney would retire after this movie for 20 years (returning for 1981's Ragtime), and it's hardly any wonder: he has the energy of 10 performances in this one film. --Robert Abele
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Customer Reviews
James Cagney in a Refreshing movie!!
Leave it to Billy Wilder to come up with a great cast in this 1961 gem! James Cagney was at his best in what was his last movie until "Ragtime" some twenty years later. Cagney had all the energy going for him as the Coca-cola executive in West Berlin. Later in the movie we find out the daughter (Pamela Tiffin) who is visiting Berlin decides to go across to East Berlin to date a communist (Horst Buchholz) and the fireworks are flying in this comedy! Yes this is dated but still a great comedy from the early 60s. I enjoyed watching this and so will you. Oh when you have that popcorn beside you, make sure you are sipping your Coca-Cola! One Two Three...It's The Real Thing when it comes to Billy Wilder's comedy!!
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123, DVD
A memory from childhood that I was able to share with my son before he went to Germany, Poland, the Ukraine, and other countries formerly under the control of the Soviet Block. He caught the many nuances of the film's politics and enjoyed it greatly, as did I. fdd
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James Cagney, at his Comedic Best
James Cagney combined with Billy Wilder! Win-win. This may be a period piece, set in the days before the Berlin Wall, but its humour is timeless.
Just don't blink! Its that fast paced that if you close your eyes for just a second, you will have missed something... and it will be hilarious!
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Excellent Movie!
This DVD provides both a full-screen and a wide-screen version of the movie. The movie itself is good quality, black-and-white, and just as funny as I remember it being! It's full of odd little jokes that you can still understand even today.
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Where was his Oscar?
If ever anyone deserved an Oscar for his/her performance it was James Cagney in One, Two, Three. He was brilliant. It was non-stop comedy and even after all these years it is as funny as in 1962 when it was made. Forget the rubbish the studios are turning out today and buy this movie. Good supporting cast including Arlene Francis .. and the guy who played Schlemmer was a hoot.
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