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James Cagney and Horst Buchholz in...

One, Two, Three

( Catalog Number ML100882 )
(2.35:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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One, Two, Three
1961 - 110 min. - Black and White
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Billy Wilder's Cold War satire, derived  from an energetic Molnar comedy the director had seen in 1929, probably owes as much to NINOTCHKA, perhaps the best known film of his idol Ernst Lubitsch.  It stars James Cagney as C.J. MacNamara, a Coca-Cola executive who comes to West Berlin to promote the sugary brew on the other side of the Iron Curtain, hoping, in the process, to be promoted to the post of director of West European operations.  He soon learns that his real job is babysitting his boss's 17-year-old daughter Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin), who has secretly married volatile Communist Otto Piffl (Horst Bucholz) during her soujourn. By the time McNamara learns this small detail, his boss (Howard St. John) is about to arrive in Berlin. After he gets Piffl arrested by the East German police, who torture him by forcing him to listen to "Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-dot Bikini" repeatedly, C.J. finds out that Scarlett is pregnant, and realizes he has only twelve hours to get Piffl released and turn him into an acceptable son-in-law for his boss. Wilder's anarchic satire targets Communism, Coca-Cola, rock n' roll, bureaucratic inefficiency, teenage lust, middle-aged lust, and everything else which wanders into range in this briskly paced farce, which features a vigorous James Cagney in his last leading screen role.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
In his last starring film (it was supposed to be his last film, but Ragtime came along in 1981), James Cagney plays Coca-Cola executive C. P. MacNamara. Assigned to manage Coke's West Berlin office, MacNamara dreams of being transferred to London, and to do this he must curry favor with his Atlanta-based boss Hazeltine (Howard St. John). Thus, MacNamara agrees to look after Hazeltine's dizzy, impulsive daughter Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin) during her visit to Germany. Weeks pass: On the eve of Hazeltine's visit to West Berlin, Scarlett announces that she's gotten married. Even worse: her husband is a hygienically challenged East Berlin Communist named Otto Piffl (Horst Buchholz). The crafty McNamara arranges for Piffl to be arrested by the East Berlin police and to have the marriage annulled, only to discover that Scarlett is pregnant. In rapid-fire "one, two, three" fashion, McNamara must: (a) arrange for Piffl to be released by the Communists; and (b) successfully pass off the scrungy, doggedly anti-capitalist Piffl as an acceptable husband for Scarlett. McNamara must accomplish this in less than twelve hours, all the while trying to mollify his wife (Arlene Francis), who has learned of his affair with busty secretary Ingeborg (Lilo Pulver). Seldom pausing for breath, Billy Wilder's film is a crackling, mile-a-minute farce, taking satiric scattershots at Coca-Cola, the Cold War (the film is set in the months just before the erection of the Berlin Wall), Russian red tape, Communist and capitalist hypocrisy, Southern bigotry, the German "war guilt," rock music, and even Cagney's own movie image. Not all the gags are in the best of taste, and most of the one-liners have dated rather badly, but Cagney's mesmerizing performance holds the whole affair together. Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond adapted their screenplay from an obscure play by Ferenc Molnar. Watch for Red Buttons in an unbilled cameo as a military policeman, and listen for the voice of Sig Ruman, emanating from the mouth of actor Hubert Van Meyerinck (The Count von Droste-Schattenburg). --- Hal Erickson

Adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond from a Ferenc Molnar play, Wilder's rapid-fire comedy ferociously satirizes the Cold War divide between East and West. Featuring a peerless James Cagney in his last starring role and set in West Berlin, the breathless farce sends up everything from soft drink capitalism to Communist hypocrisy, Soviet disorganization, male lechery, female giddiness, postwar Germany, and American pop culture. With a relentless stream of one-liners and numerous comic set pieces, such as a prisoner tortured with endless plays of Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini and a mad tabletop striptease that shakes a portrait of Stalin off its perch, Wilder and Cagney never let up the pace for a moment, down to the final Pepsi Cola punchline. Earning critical accolades for its wit and its star, One, Two, Three won the New York Film Critics Circle prizes for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor, but it received only one Oscar nomination, for Daniel L. Fapp's crisp widescreen black-and-white photography. (Fapp won the color cinematography Oscar that same year, for West Side Story.) One, Two, Three became a popular hit in in Germany after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for One, Two, Three

James Cagney - C.R. MacNamara
Horst Buchholz - Otto Ludwig Piffl
Pamela Tiffin - Scarlett Hazeltine
Arlene Francis - Phyllis MacNamara
Liselotte [Lilo] Pulver - Ingeborg
Howard St. John - Hazeltine
Hanns Lothar - Schlemmer
Lois Bolton - Mrs. Hazeltine
Leon Askin - Peripetchikoff
Peter Capell - Mishkin
Ralf Wolter - Borodenko
Karl Lieffen - Fritz
Henning Schluter - Dr. Bauer
Til Kiwe - Reporter
Karl Ludwig Lindt - Zeidlitz
John Allen - Tommy MacNamara
Chris Allen - Cindy MacNamara
Rose Renee Roth - Bertha
Helmut Schmidt - East German Police Corporal
Otto Friebel - East German Interrogator
Klaus Becker - Policeman
Max Buchsbaum - Tailor
Red Buttons - Military Police Sergeant
Hubert Von Meyerinck - Count Von Droste-Schattenburg
Jasper VonOertzen - Haberdasher

Crew for One, Two, Three

Milt Rice - Special Effects
Josef Coesfeld - Makeup
Billy Wilder - Producer / Screenwriter / Director
Basil Fenton-Smith - Sound/Sound Designer
William Calihan, Jr. - Production Manager
Tom Pevsner - First Assistant Director
Ferenc Molnar - Play Author
I.A.L. Diamond - Associate Producer
Daniel L. Fapp - Cinematographer
I.A.L. Diamond - Screenwriter
Alexandre Trauner - Art Director
Andre Previn - Musical Direction/Supervision / Composer (Music Score)
Doane Harrison - Associate Producer
Dan Mandell - Editor

Awards for One, Two, Three

Best Cinematography (nom) Daniel L. Fapp 1961 Academy
10 Best Films 1961 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Actor James Cagney 1961 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Direction Billy Wilder 1961 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Screenwriting Billy Wilder 1961 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Screenwriting Diamon, I.A.C. 1961 New York Film Critics Circle

Feature Details

Title: One, Two, Three
Feature Release Date: 1961
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 110 Minutes
Chapters: 25
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 29 Jan 1997
Catalog Number: ML100882
UPC: 027616088260
Manufacturer: Kuraray
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: ML100882-N
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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James Cagney and Horst Buchholz in...

One, Two, Three

( Catalog Number ML100882 )
(2.35:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

One of the Best Versions on LaserDisc
Isolated Music & Effects
Original Theatrical Trailer
LaserDiscs

One, Two, Three
1961 - 110 min. - Black and White
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Billy Wilder's Cold War satire, derived  from an energetic Molnar comedy the director had seen in 1929, probably owes as much to NINOTCHKA, perhaps the best known film of his idol Ernst Lubitsch.  It stars James Cagney as C.J. MacNamara, a Coca-Cola executive who comes to West Berlin to promote the sugary brew on the other side of the Iron Curtain, hoping, in the process, to be promoted to the post of director of West European operations.  He soon learns that his real job is babysitting his boss's 17-year-old daughter Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin), who has secretly married volatile Communist Otto Piffl (Horst Bucholz) during her soujourn. By the time McNamara learns this small detail, his boss (Howard St. John) is about to arrive in Berlin. After he gets Piffl arrested by the East German police, who torture him by forcing him to listen to "Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-dot Bikini" repeatedly, C.J. finds out that Scarlett is pregnant, and realizes he has only twelve hours to get Piffl released and turn him into an acceptable son-in-law for his boss. Wilder's anarchic satire targets Communism, Coca-Cola, rock n' roll, bureaucratic inefficiency, teenage lust, middle-aged lust, and everything else which wanders into range in this briskly paced farce, which features a vigorous James Cagney in his last leading screen role.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
In his last starring film (it was supposed to be his last film, but Ragtime came along in 1981), James Cagney plays Coca-Cola executive C. P. MacNamara. Assigned to manage Coke's West Berlin office, MacNamara dreams of being transferred to London, and to do this he must curry favor with his Atlanta-based boss Hazeltine (Howard St. John). Thus, MacNamara agrees to look after Hazeltine's dizzy, impulsive daughter Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin) during her visit to Germany. Weeks pass: On the eve of Hazeltine's visit to West Berlin, Scarlett announces that she's gotten married. Even worse: her husband is a hygienically challenged East Berlin Communist named Otto Piffl (Horst Buchholz). The crafty McNamara arranges for Piffl to be arrested by the East Berlin police and to have the marriage annulled, only to discover that Scarlett is pregnant. In rapid-fire "one, two, three" fashion, McNamara must: (a) arrange for Piffl to be released by the Communists; and (b) successfully pass off the scrungy, doggedly anti-capitalist Piffl as an acceptable husband for Scarlett. McNamara must accomplish this in less than twelve hours, all the while trying to mollify his wife (Arlene Francis), who has learned of his affair with busty secretary Ingeborg (Lilo Pulver). Seldom pausing for breath, Billy Wilder's film is a crackling, mile-a-minute farce, taking satiric scattershots at Coca-Cola, the Cold War (the film is set in the months just before the erection of the Berlin Wall), Russian red tape, Communist and capitalist hypocrisy, Southern bigotry, the German "war guilt," rock music, and even Cagney's own movie image. Not all the gags are in the best of taste, and most of the one-liners have dated rather badly, but Cagney's mesmerizing performance holds the whole affair together. Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond adapted their screenplay from an obscure play by Ferenc Molnar. Watch for Red Buttons in an unbilled cameo as a military policeman, and listen for the voice of Sig Ruman, emanating from the mouth of actor Hubert Van Meyerinck (The Count von Droste-Schattenburg). --- Hal Erickson

Adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond from a Ferenc Molnar play, Wilder's rapid-fire comedy ferociously satirizes the Cold War divide between East and West. Featuring a peerless James Cagney in his last starring role and set in West Berlin, the breathless farce sends up everything from soft drink capitalism to Communist hypocrisy, Soviet disorganization, male lechery, female giddiness, postwar Germany, and American pop culture. With a relentless stream of one-liners and numerous comic set pieces, such as a prisoner tortured with endless plays of Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini and a mad tabletop striptease that shakes a portrait of Stalin off its perch, Wilder and Cagney never let up the pace for a moment, down to the final Pepsi Cola punchline. Earning critical accolades for its wit and its star, One, Two, Three won the New York Film Critics Circle prizes for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor, but it received only one Oscar nomination, for Daniel L. Fapp's crisp widescreen black-and-white photography. (Fapp won the color cinematography Oscar that same year, for West Side Story.) One, Two, Three became a popular hit in in Germany after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for One, Two, Three

James Cagney - C.R. MacNamara
Horst Buchholz - Otto Ludwig Piffl
Pamela Tiffin - Scarlett Hazeltine
Arlene Francis - Phyllis MacNamara
Liselotte [Lilo] Pulver - Ingeborg
Howard St. John - Hazeltine
Hanns Lothar - Schlemmer
Lois Bolton - Mrs. Hazeltine
Leon Askin - Peripetchikoff
Peter Capell - Mishkin
Ralf Wolter - Borodenko
Karl Lieffen - Fritz
Henning Schluter - Dr. Bauer
Til Kiwe - Reporter
Karl Ludwig Lindt - Zeidlitz
John Allen - Tommy MacNamara
Chris Allen - Cindy MacNamara
Rose Renee Roth - Bertha
Helmut Schmidt - East German Police Corporal
Otto Friebel - East German Interrogator
Klaus Becker - Policeman
Max Buchsbaum - Tailor
Red Buttons - Military Police Sergeant
Hubert Von Meyerinck - Count Von Droste-Schattenburg
Jasper VonOertzen - Haberdasher

Crew for One, Two, Three

Milt Rice - Special Effects
Josef Coesfeld - Makeup
Billy Wilder - Producer / Screenwriter / Director
Basil Fenton-Smith - Sound/Sound Designer
William Calihan, Jr. - Production Manager
Tom Pevsner - First Assistant Director
Ferenc Molnar - Play Author
I.A.L. Diamond - Associate Producer
Daniel L. Fapp - Cinematographer
I.A.L. Diamond - Screenwriter
Alexandre Trauner - Art Director
Andre Previn - Musical Direction/Supervision / Composer (Music Score)
Doane Harrison - Associate Producer
Dan Mandell - Editor

Awards for One, Two, Three

Best Cinematography (nom) Daniel L. Fapp 1961 Academy
10 Best Films 1961 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Actor James Cagney 1961 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Direction Billy Wilder 1961 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Screenwriting Billy Wilder 1961 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Screenwriting Diamon, I.A.C. 1961 New York Film Critics Circle

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