![]() “Atlanta,” laments MacNamara, “you can’t be serious. #One two three full movie 1961 macShe wishes that Mac would get a nice job at the home office in Atlanta, a prospect that he doesn’t relish. “Why, this will be the biggest thing to hit Atlanta since General Sherman threw that little barbeque.” Truth is she’s tired of globe-hopping and wants to head back to the States. When Mac tells Phyllis, she’s rather tickled. Things go from bad to worse when Mac gets a call from Hazeltine in Atlanta telling him that he and his wife are coming to West Berlin. I’d like to give it to him myself with a hammer and sickle.” When Mac first meets him he comments that “he could use a haircut. Turns out she’s been sneaking over into East Berlin to meet with a boy named Otto Ludwig Piffl (Horst Buchholz) a card-carrying Bolshevik who dresses in a beat-up pair of pants and a sweater, wears sandals and apparently doesn’t wear underwear. He also learns that Scarlett’s bed hasn’t been slept in. One day Mac’s chauffer and limousine are missing. Scarlett arrives for what is supposed to be a two-week visit. Brown in Some Like It Hot, nobody’s perfect. He’s sent his young daughter Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin), his flakey southern belle who he sent to Europe in order to distance her from a rock & roll singer she got engaged to. These plans are put on hold when he gets a call from Mr. This will give Mac some time with Ingeborg (Liselotte Pulver) his super hot secretary who, not incidentally, resembles Marilyn Monroe, whom Billy Wilder directed in The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot. She’s planning on taking a trip to Venice with their two children. Meanwhile, his wife Phyllis (Arlene Francis) is quite upset with him. Hopefully, he will then be promoted to the head of European operations at their head office in London. He’s hoping to get back on good terms with the home office in Atlanta by making a deal to sell Coca-Cola on the other side of the iron curtain. ![]() But now he’s relegated to only half a city. He once was in charge of the Middle East, “Nine countries, fifteen bottling plants all facing Mecca,” he proudly boasts. Alas, old Mac isn’t too happy with his lot. He has a car and a chauffeur, a nice home for his family and a gorgeous secretary who he’s not only fooling around with but who is also pretty damned competent. On the surface, things are pretty rosy for him. “Mac” MacNamara, a Coca-Cola executive in what was then West Berlin. One, Two, Three stars James Cagney as C.R. Just how much of the public was willing to take a humorous look at the cold war in 1961 is certainly questionable. One, Two, Three was one of the first films to take a humorous look at the cold war, and it did so in a positively zany, uproariously funny way. A decade after Ace in the Hole, Wilder directed another film that might have been a little edgy for audiences at the time. The film was controversial upon its release, was a box office flop and was not released on home media until 2007. When I started this blog the very first movie I wrote about was Billy Wilder’s great black comedy Ace in the Hole starring Kirk Douglas.
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