John), who informs Mac that Hazeltine’s 17-year-old wildcat of a daughter Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin) is on her way to West Berlin for a few weeks and he expects Mac to take care of her during her stay. Mac gets a phone call from his boss in Atlanta, W.P. And did I mention all the problems caused by Mac’s sexpot secretary Fräulein Ingeborg (Liselotte Pulver)?īut we’re just getting started. His wife Phyllis (Arlene Francis) is dying for a vacation, his office staff stand at attention each time he enters the building, and his personal assistant is a former Nazi named Schlemmer (Hanns Lothar), who just can’t help clicking his boot heels after every word from Mac. He really doesn’t want to be there he’s still bitter about bungling a business deal in the Middle East several years earlier, but he’s hoping if he can persuade a trio of Soviet gatekeepers (Leon Askin, Ralf Wolter, Peter Capell) to introduce Coca-Cola behind the Iron Curtain, he’ll be promoted to the company’s head of European operations in London.īut Mac has other problems. “Mac” MacNamara, the sales manager for a Coca-Cola plant in West Berlin. It did not and One, Two, Three proves it. I’m hoping this Blu-ray release will help dispel the erroneous belief that Wilder’s career went downhill fast after The Apartment (1960). I saw the film recently on DVD and was amazed by it, that is, when I wasn’t laughing hysterically. I’d like to start this review by thanking Kino Lorber for a Blu-ray release that hasn’t even happened yet and won’t be available for another two weeks (on May 30), Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three (1961) , which I plan to pick up ASAP. Diamondīased on Egy, kettő, három by Ferenc Molnár
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