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One Two Three (1962)
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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...
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In his last main-career film, James Cagney is an electric dynamo and so pushy his wife keeps referring to him as mein fuhrer. He is racing a mile a minute, playing tricks on the East Germans and trying to set up a date with his secretary. The best made plans get sidetracked when the boss send his 17-year-old daughter over...
(complete One Two Three review by Movie Addict)
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