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- 1961
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 44 m
- 1961
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 44 m
Summary In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Written By: I.A.L. Diamond, Ferenc Molnár, Billy Wilder
- 1961
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 44 m
- 1961
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 44 m
One, Two, Three
73
8.0
Summary In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Written By: I.A.L. Diamond, Ferenc Molnár, Billy Wilder
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
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38% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
73
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Based on a one-act play by Ferenc Molnar, and scripted by Wilder and his frequent collaborator, I.A.L. Diamond, One Two Three is all-Cagney all the time. [11 May 2001, p.C2]
Although crafting a comedy about such world-altering topics was bound to be difficult, a master like Wilder could pull it off.
The pace is blistering, and Wilder's deep-seated hatred of Germans has never been put to more comic use.
Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three is a fast-paced, high-pitched, hard-hitting, lighthearted farce crammed with topical gags and spiced with satirical overtones. Story is so furiously quick-witted that some of its wit gets snarled and smothered in overlap. But total experience packs a considerable wallop.
Marvellous one-liners, of course, and Cagney, spitting out his lines with machine-gun rapidity in his final film until his belated appearance in 'Ragtime', is superb (and superbly backed by a fine cast). But the targets of Wilder's satire - go-getting, up-to-the-minute, consumer America versus the poverty and outdatedness of Communist culture - are rather too obvious.
That's about the nature of the picture. It is one with which you can laugh--with its own impudence toward foreign crises--while laughing at its rowdy spinning jokes.
The gags are almost all on this level, and the little sops to sentiment are even worse.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
8.0
85% Positive
11 Ratings
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15% Mixed
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Production Company
Bavaria Film,
Pyramid Productions,
The Mirisch Corporation
Release Date Dec 16, 1961
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating Approved
Genres
Tagline Billy Wilder's Explosive New Comedy
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Laurel Awards
• 2 Nominations
