Weeks later, on the eve of Hazeltine’s visit to West Berlin, Scarlett announces she’s gotten married to a hygienically challenged East Berlin Communist, Otto Piffl (Horst Buchholz). MacNamara agrees to look after Hazeltine’s dizzy, impulsive daughter, Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin), during her visit to Germany. ![]() But MacNamara dreams of a transfer to London, and to achieve that he must curry favor with his Atlanta-based boss, Hazeltine (Howard St. MacNamara, assigned to manage Coke’s West Berlin office. In his last major starring film, James Cagney plays Coca-Cola executive C.R. Diamond loosely adapted their sharp screenplay from an old play by Ferenc Molnár (better known for Lilliom). ![]() Other targets include the notorious Soviet red tape, Communist and capitalist hypocrisy, Southern bigotry, the German “war guilt,” rock music, and even Cagney’s own screen image. Set in the months before the Berlin Wall was built, One, Two, Three is Wilder’s witty farce, satirizing such timely issues as Coca-Cola and Big Business, the politics of the Cold War, and above all, American economic and cultural imperialism.
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