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"One, Two, Three."
Billy Wilder had the balls to shoot a movie in divided Berlin right before the wall went up, telling a story of Coca-Cola executive Jimmy Cagney who gets stuck hosting the daughter of the president of Coca-Cola (he's sending her through Europe, mooching off Coke bottlers) who falls in love with a young Communist. Cagney has to shape the kid up before the girl's dad -- his boss -- gets there.
Cagney is in his element here as the harried executive who never stops yelling. Great support by a talented cast, crisp black-and-white widescreen photography.
I got into an argument with my college writing teacher about the pace. he thought it was too fast. The guy wrote for the Marx brothers, he knew his stuff, but I thought it was fast -- but not TOO fast.
Check it out.
--t
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