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'''One, Two, Three''' is a comedy movie by Creator/BillyWilder from 1961. Set in West Berlin shortly before the wall was built, it's about JamesCagney as the boss of Coca-Cola Germany who has to care for the daughter of his boss spending her holiday there. And trying to do business with some Communists, to expand Coca-Cola beyond the Iron Curtain. And to him trying to prevent his marriage from fall apart. HilarityEnsues (lots of!).
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'''One, Two, Three''' is a comedy movie by Creator/BillyWilder from 1961. Set in West Berlin shortly before the wall was built, it's about JamesCagney as the boss of Coca-Cola Germany who has to care for the daughter of his boss spending her holiday there. And trying to do business with some Communists, to expand Coca-Cola beyond the Iron Curtain. And to him trying to prevent his marriage from fall falling apart. HilarityEnsues (lots of!).
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*** It isn't. It's a much smaller car with up-to-date late '50s styling. How the Vopos wound up with a French Simca Aronde instead of an East German or Soviet model is pure movie magic, too...
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* ImprobablyCoolCar: [=MacNamara's=] "Adenauer" Mercedes; a regional Coca-Cola plant manager in Germany in 1961 would likely have had a smaller, near-taxi-spec "Ponton" Mercedes if not an Opel Rekord or Ford Taunus as a company car. Although West Berlin was the "show-window of the West", so maybe he got a bigger car to impress the locals and visitors from the East.
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* ImprobablyCoolCar: [=MacNamara's=] "Adenauer" Mercedes; a regional Coca-Cola plant manager in Germany in 1961 would likely have had at most a smaller, near-taxi-spec "Ponton" Mercedes if not Mercedes, but more likely an Opel Rekord or Ford Taunus or even a VW Beetle as a company car. Although West Berlin was the "show-window of the West", Mac's independently wealthy, though, so maybe he got bought it with his own money at a bigger car to impress better price than he could've gotten back home in the locals and visitors from the East.US.
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'''One, Two, Three''' is a comedy movie by Creator/BillyWilder from 1961. It's set in West Berlin shortly before the wall was built, it's about JamesCagney as the boss of Coca-Cola Germany who has to care for the daughter of his boss spending her holiday there. And trying to do business with some Communists, to expand Coca-Cola beyond the Iron Curtain. And to him trying to prevent his marriage from fall apart. HilarityEnsues (lots of!).
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'''One, Two, Three''' is a comedy movie by Creator/BillyWilder from 1961. It's set Set in West Berlin shortly before the wall was built, it's about JamesCagney as the boss of Coca-Cola Germany who has to care for the daughter of his boss spending her holiday there. And trying to do business with some Communists, to expand Coca-Cola beyond the Iron Curtain. And to him trying to prevent his marriage from fall apart. HilarityEnsues (lots of!).
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* ActorAllusion:
** Red Buttons appears as an MP who does a "[[BeamMeUpScotty You dirty rat]]" impression to the face of CR [=MacNamara=]... played by James Cagney.
** Cagney holds up a piece of fruit so it looks like his famous "grapefruit" scene from ''ThePublicEnemy''.
** Red Buttons appears as an MP who does a "[[BeamMeUpScotty You dirty rat]]" impression to the face of CR [=MacNamara=]... played by James Cagney.
** Cagney holds up a piece of fruit so it looks like his famous "grapefruit" scene from ''ThePublicEnemy''.
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* FakeNationality: Apart from the German-speaking actors playing the Russians, Lilo Pulver, the actress playing Ingeborg, is actually Swiss.
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* TooSoon: Especially the Germans weren't very fond of Creator/BillyWilder making fun of the wall. The movie was VindicatedByHistory though - later, in TheEighties.
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* OnSecondThought: After the Russians realize Otto has been arrested as a spy, they start to waver on rescuing him:
-->'''Peripetchikoff:''' Do you know what happens if I defect? They will line up my family and shoot them! My wife, my mother-in-law, my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law...({{Beat}})...Let's do it!
-->'''Peripetchikoff:''' Do you know what happens if I defect? They will line up my family and shoot them! My wife, my mother-in-law, my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law...({{Beat}})...Let's do it!
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-->"Is exact replica of 1937 Nash!"[[labelnote:*]][[TheyJustDidntCare No, it isn't. It's a much smaller car with up-to-date late '50s styling]].[[/labelnote]]
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-->"Is exact replica of 1937 Nash!"[[labelnote:*]][[TheyJustDidntCare No, it Nash!"
*** It isn't. It's a much smaller car with up-to-date late '50sstyling]].[[/labelnote]]styling. How the Vopos wound up with a French Simca Aronde instead of an East German or Soviet model is pure movie magic, too...
*** It isn't. It's a much smaller car with up-to-date late '50s
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* ActorAllusion: Red Buttons appears as an MP who does a "[[BeamMeUpScotty You dirty rat]]" impression to the face of CR [=MacNamara=]... played by James Cagney.
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** Red Buttons appears as an MP who does a "[[BeamMeUpScotty You dirty rat]]" impression to the face of CR [=MacNamara=]... played by James Cagney.
** Red Buttons appears as an MP who does a "[[BeamMeUpScotty You dirty rat]]" impression to the face of CR [=MacNamara=]... played by James Cagney.
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-->-''"Is exact replica of 1937 Nash!"''[[labelnote:*]][[TheyJustDidntCare No, it isn't. It's a much smaller car with up-to-date late '50s styling]].[[/labelnote]]
* AllGermansAreNazis: Played with. [=MacNamara=] has a former S.S. member as his assistant; one scene shows his employees acting like complete robots when issued orders.
** This comes in handy when Schlemmer [[spoiler:gives away that the investigative reporter who threatens to expose the whole deal is a former SS officer]].
* AllGermansAreNazis: Played with. [=MacNamara=] has a former S.S. member as his assistant; one scene shows his employees acting like complete robots when issued orders.
** This comes in handy when Schlemmer [[spoiler:gives away that the investigative reporter who threatens to expose the whole deal is a former SS officer]].
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--> Peripetchikoff: "We have emergency meeting with Swiss Trade Delegation. They send us twenty car-loads of cheese. Totally unacceptable... full of holes."
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* ImprobablyCoolCar: [=MacNamara's=] "Adenauer" Mercedes; a regional Coca-Cola plant manager in Germany in 1961 would likely have had a smaller, near-taxi-spec "Ponton" Mercedes if not an Opel Rekord or Ford Taunus as a company car.
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** Well, West Berlin was the "show-window of the West", so maybe he got a bigger car to impress the locals and visitors from the East.
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* ImprobablyCoolCar: [=MacNamara's=] "Adenauer" Mercedes; a regional Coca-Cola plant manager in Germany in 1961 would likely have had a smaller, near-taxi-spec "Ponton" Mercedes if not an Opel Rekord or Ford Taunus as a company car.
** Well,car. Although West Berlin was the "show-window of the West", so maybe he got a bigger car to impress the locals and visitors from the East.
** Well,
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* Creator/RichardWagner: The German doctor who finds out Scarlett's pregnant is very fond of him, and sadly missed the 3rd act of ''Die Walküre / The Valkyrie''
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/LittleCaesar'', ''GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}''
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/LittleCaesar'', ''GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}''''Film/{{Ninotchka}}''.
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'''One, two, three''' Two, Three''' is a comedy movie by Creator/BillyWilder from 1961. It's set in West Berlin shortly before the wall was built, it's about JamesCagney as the boss of Coca-Cola Germany who has to care for the daughter of his boss spending her holiday there. And trying to do business with some Communists, to expand Coca-Cola beyond the Iron Curtain. And to him trying to prevent his marriage from fall apart. HilarityEnsues (lots of!).of!).
Thing seem to be going fine for [=MacNamara=] (Cagney), Coca-Cola (the company he works for) is doing well, and he's about to seal a deal with the Russian trade commission to get Coca-Cola past the Iron Curtain. Hoping this will earn him the prized position in London, sadly Mac has to jump through one more hoop. The daughter of his boss is on a tour of Europe and said boss ''insists'' that Mac look after her. So for over a month Scarlet Heseltine is a guest of the [=MacNamara's=]. Thankfully her parents have made plans to come and take her home. Unfortunately, Scarlet's new ''husband'' Otto has other plans. It seems that Scarlet had been sneaking out of the house the whole time she was with the [=MacNamara's=] and slipped behind the Iron Curtain to have fun on the town. Which is where she ran into the young Communist, and naturally, they fell in love...[[SarcasmMode naturally]]. So now Mac must make Otto acceptable to Scarlet's conservative high society parents or he'll be thrown out into the streets.
Thing seem to be going fine for [=MacNamara=] (Cagney), Coca-Cola (the company he works for) is doing well, and he's about to seal a deal with the Russian trade commission to get Coca-Cola past the Iron Curtain. Hoping this will earn him the prized position in London, sadly Mac has to jump through one more hoop. The daughter of his boss is on a tour of Europe and said boss ''insists'' that Mac look after her. So for over a month Scarlet Heseltine is a guest of the [=MacNamara's=]. Thankfully her parents have made plans to come and take her home. Unfortunately, Scarlet's new ''husband'' Otto has other plans. It seems that Scarlet had been sneaking out of the house the whole time she was with the [=MacNamara's=] and slipped behind the Iron Curtain to have fun on the town. Which is where she ran into the young Communist, and naturally, they fell in love...[[SarcasmMode naturally]]. So now Mac must make Otto acceptable to Scarlet's conservative high society parents or he'll be thrown out into the streets.
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'''One, two, three''' is a comedy movie by Creator/BillyWilder from 1961. It's set in West Berlin shortly before the wall was built, it's about JamesCagney as the boss of Coca-Cola Germany who has to care for the daughter of his boss spending her holiday there. And trying to do business with some Communists, to expand Coca-Cola beyond the Iron Curtain. And preventing to him trying to prevent his marriage to from fall apart. HilarityEnsues (lots of!).
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* LargeHam: James Cagney's performance here exhausted him so much that he retired.
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* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Completely and utterly averted. JoanCrawford, at the time a major stockholder of Pepsi, was enraged by what she saw as blatant product placement. [[TakeThat In response]], the very last gag in the film involves Pepsi -- [=MacNamara=] puts a nickle in a Coke machine at Templehof and is rather annoyed that he receives... a bottle of Pepsi.
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* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Completely and utterly averted. JoanCrawford, Creator/JoanCrawford, at the time a major stockholder of Pepsi, was enraged by what she saw as blatant product placement. [[TakeThat In response]], the very last gag in the film involves Pepsi -- [=MacNamara=] puts a nickle nickel in a Coke machine at Templehof and is rather annoyed that he receives... a bottle of Pepsi.
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** This comes in handy when Schlemmer gives away that the investigative reporter who threatens to expose the whole deal is a former SS officer.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The very movie starts with it. JamesCagney starts talking how the world was looking to UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC on August the 13th of 1961... for a sports game. Oh, BTW, on the same day the Commies built TheBerlinWall.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The very movie starts with it. JamesCagney starts talking how the world was looking to UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC on August the 13th of 1961... for a sports game. Oh, BTW, by the way, on the same day the Commies built TheBerlinWall.TheBerlinWall.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: The aforementioned IntrepidReporter is unable to be put off even with extravagant bribes [[spoiler:until Schlemmer does a Nazi salute to him in front of [=MacNamara=]. The reporter quickly backs off]].
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: The aforementioned IntrepidReporter is unable to be put off even with extravagant bribes [[spoiler:until Schlemmer does a Nazi salute to him in front of [=MacNamara=]. The reporter quickly backs off]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: [=MacNamara=]'s wife, sometimes.
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* DeadpanSnarker: [=MacNamara=]'s wife, sometimes.wife Phyllis.
--> ''(after [=MacNamara=] comes up with a wild story about Otto being a secret agent with a posthumous medal)'' "Why don't you give one to yourself? First-class heel with oak leaf cluster!"
--> ''(after [=MacNamara=] comes up with a wild story about Otto being a secret agent with a posthumous medal)'' "Why don't you give one to yourself? First-class heel with oak leaf cluster!"
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: Graf von Droste-Schattenburg, who [[spoiler:is paid to adopt Otto]].
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: Graf von Droste-Schattenburg, who currently working as a restroom attendant. He [[spoiler:is paid to adopt Otto]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: [=MacNamara=] is quite happy to feed newlywed Otto to the East German secret police to save his career, flips out when it's discovered that Scarlet is pregnant because of what the boss will do to ''him'', and completely ignores the fact that his wife has completely had it with globetrotting and his behavior.
* KickedUpstairs: The fate that [=MacNamara=] is trying to avoid for most of the film: reassignment to the home office in Atlanta. [[spoiler:It happens in the end, but he faces it with equanimity, since it will let him be closer to his family.]]
* KickedUpstairs: The fate that [=MacNamara=] is trying to avoid for most of the film: reassignment to the home office in Atlanta. [[spoiler:It happens in the end, but he faces it with equanimity, since it will let him be closer to his family.]]
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* OnlySaneWoman: Phyllis, who pokes holes in [=MacNamara=]'s ZanyScheme logic, and is generally unimpressed with the absurd goings-on.
* ProductPlacement: Nowonder wonder, if the main character is a Coca-Cola exec.exec.
* PygmalionPlot: [=MacNamara=] has ten hours to turn Otto from a slovenly Communist to a dapper businessman worthy of the boss's daughter.
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* PygmalionPlot: [=MacNamara=] has ten hours to turn Otto from a slovenly Communist to a dapper businessman worthy of the boss's daughter.
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** Cagney holds up a piece of fruit so it looks like his famous "grapefruit" scene from ''The Public Enemy''.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: This time the other way round. Before August 1961, people could cross the border between West and East Berlin quite easily - which millions of East Germans used to move to the promised golden west, which was more or less built on as much propaganda as the West could put visually into the area. The movie was based on this premise and suffered when the wall was built.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: This time the other way round. Before August 1961, people could cross the border between West and East Berlin quite easily - which millions of East Germans used to move to the promised golden west, which was more or less built on as much propaganda as the West could put visually into the area.west. The movie was based on this premise and suffered when the wall was built.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: This time the other way round. Before August 1961, people could cross the border between West and East Berlin quite easily - which millions of East Germans used to move to the golden west. The movie was based on this premise and suffered when the wall was built.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: This time the other way round. Before August 1961, people could cross the border between West and East Berlin quite easily - which millions of East Germans used to move to the promised golden west.west, which was more or less built on as much propaganda as the West could put visually into the area. The movie was based on this premise and suffered when the wall was built.
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* SuperlativeDubbing: The German-speaking actors also did the German dubs of their own parts. The only dubbed voice in the English version is that of Graf von Droste-Schattenburg, who speaks with a much deeper and more gravelly voice than that of the actor, Hubert von Meyerinck (who uses his own voice in the German dub).
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The \"Fräuleinwunder\" was Elke Sommer, not Lilo Pulver
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* SexySecretary: Ingeborg, played by Lilo Pulver, the fräuleinwunder.
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* SexySecretary: Ingeborg, played by Lilo Pulver, the fräuleinwunder.Pulver.
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* SuperlativeDubbing: The German-speaking actors also did the German dubs of their own parts. The only dubbed voice in the English version is that of Graf von Droste-Schattenburg, who speaks with a much deeper voice than that of the actor, Hubert von Meyerinck (who uses his own voice in the German dub).
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* SuperlativeDubbing: The German-speaking actors also did the German dubs of their own parts. The only dubbed voice in the English version is that of Graf von Droste-Schattenburg, who speaks with a much deeper and more gravelly voice than that of the actor, Hubert von Meyerinck (who uses his own voice in the German dub).
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** Well, West Berlin was the "show-window of the West", so maybe he got a bigger car to impress the locals and visitors from the East.
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* FakeNationality: Apart from the German-speaking actors playing the Russians, Lilo Pulver, the actress playing Ingeborg, is actually Swiss.
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* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Completely and utterly averted. JoanCrawford, at the time a major stockholder of Pepsi, was enraged by what she saw as blatant product placement. [[TakeThat In response]], the very last gag in the film involves Pepsi -- [=MacNamara=] puts a nickle in a Coke machine at Templehof and is rather annoyed that he recieves... a can of Pepsi.
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'''One, two, three''' is a comedy movie by BillyWilder Creator/BillyWilder from 1961. It's set in West Berlin shortly before the wall was built, it's about JamesCagney as the boss of Coca-Cola Germany who has to care for the daughter of his boss spending her holiday there. And trying to do business with some Communists, to expand Coca-Cola beyond the Iron Curtain. And preventing his marriage to fall apart. HilarityEnsues (lots of!).
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* TooSoon: Especially the Germans weren't very fond of BillyWilder making fun of the wall. The movie was VindicatedByHistory though - later, in TheEighties.
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* TooSoon: Especially the Germans weren't very fond of BillyWilder Creator/BillyWilder making fun of the wall. The movie was VindicatedByHistory though - later, in TheEighties.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/LittleCaesar'', ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}''
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/LittleCaesar'', ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', ''GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}''
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/LittleCaesar'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}''
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/LittleCaesar'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}''
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* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Completely and utterly averted. JoanCrawford, at the time a major stockholder of Pepsi, was enraged by what she saw as blatant product placement. [[TakeThat In response]], the very last gag in the film involves Pepsi -- [=MacNamara=] puts a nickle in a Coke machine at Templehof and is rather annoyed that he recieves... a can of Pepsi.
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* HistoryMarchesOn: When production commenced in Berlin, there was no wall. Halfway through production, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik decided, [[{{Understatement}} quite inconveniently]], to erect the first layers of what would eventually become Die Mauer. This threw a monkey wrench in the plans of the filmmakers, especially when they had obtained permits to shoot near the Brandenburg Gate. It also meant that as mentioned above, that the movie entered theaters already dated with a side of TooSoon.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The very movie starts with it. JamesCagney starts talking how the world was looking to WashingtonDC on August the 13th of 1961... for a sports game. Oh, BTW, on the same day the Commies built TheBerlinWall.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The very movie starts with it. JamesCagney starts talking how the world was looking to WashingtonDC UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC on August the 13th of 1961... for a sports game. Oh, BTW, on the same day the Commies built TheBerlinWall.
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'''One, two, three''' is a comedy movie by BillyWilder from 1961. It's set in West Berlin shortly before the wall was built, it's about JamesCagney as the boss of Coca-Cola Germany who has to care for the daughter of his boss spending her holiday there. And trying to do business with some Communists, to expand Coca-Cola beyond the Iron Curtain. And preventing his marriage to fall apart. HilarityEnsues (lots of!).
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!!Examples:
* ActorAllusion: Red Buttons appears as an MP who does a "[[BeamMeUpScotty You dirty rat]]" impression to the face of CR [=MacNamara=]... played by James Cagney.
** Cagney holds up a piece of fruit so it looks like his famous "grapefruit" scene from ''The Public Enemy''.
* TheAllegedCar: The Soviet agents' Moskvitch 407.
-->-''"Is exact replica of 1937 Nash!"''[[labelnote:*]][[TheyJustDidntCare No, it isn't. It's a much smaller car with up-to-date late '50s styling]].[[/labelnote]]
* AllGermansAreNazis: Played with. [=MacNamara=] has a former S.S. member as his assistant; one scene shows his employees acting like complete robots when issued orders.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: And during ColdWar, no one was worse than a Commie.
* BaitAndSwitch: The very movie starts with it. JamesCagney starts talking how the world was looking to WashingtonDC on August the 13th of 1961... for a sports game. Oh, BTW, on the same day the Commies built TheBerlinWall.
* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Completely and utterly averted. JoanCrawford, at the time a major stockholder of Pepsi, was enraged by what she saw as blatant product placement.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
--> Peripetchikoff: "We have emergency meeting with Swiss Trade Delegation. They send us twenty car-loads of cheese. Totally unacceptable... full of holes."
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment[=/=]LoudOfWar: The communist who married the daughter of Coca Cola's CEO is being tortured in EastGermany... by being forced to listen to "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini" on repeat for hours on end. With the record spindle off-center. He writhes in pain.
* CrossDresser: [[spoiler:Schlemmer disguises in Ingeborg's dress to fool the Russians, so they'll let Otto free.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: [=MacNamara=]'s wife, sometimes.
* DirtyCommies
* TheDitz: Scarlett, definitely.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: This time the other way round. Before August 1961, people could cross the border between West and East Berlin quite easily - which millions of East Germans used to move to the golden west. The movie was based on this premise and suffered when the wall was built.
* GuileHero: [=MacNamara=]
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Graf von Droste-Schattenburg, who [[spoiler:is paid to adopt Otto]].
* ImprobablyCoolCar: [=MacNamara's=] "Adenauer" Mercedes; a regional Coca-Cola plant manager in Germany in 1961 would likely have had a smaller, near-taxi-spec "Ponton" Mercedes if not an Opel Rekord or Ford Taunus as a company car.
* {{Lzherusskie}}: The Russian characters are played by Austrian and German actors.
* MisplacedNationalism: Parodied when Jimmy Cagney is upset with Coca-Cola heiress Scarlet for taking part in a "Yankee, Go Home" rally: "But back home, ''everybody'' hates the Yankees!" ("Ami, Go Home" would have been a completely different thing, of course...)
* ProductPlacement: No wonder if the main character is a Coca-Cola exec.
* Creator/RichardWagner: The German doctor who finds out Scarlett's pregnant is very fond of him, and sadly missed the 3rd act of ''Die Walküre / The Valkyrie''
* SexySecretary: Ingeborg, played by Lilo Pulver, the fräuleinwunder.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/LittleCaesar'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}''
* TooSoon: Especially the Germans weren't very fond of BillyWilder making fun of the wall. The movie was VindicatedByHistory though - later, in TheEighties.
* WideEyedIdealist: Otto about Communism. He even thinks it's a capitalist lie that Siberia is cold, and is happy that the Communists assigned them "a magnificent apartment, just a short walk from the bathroom!".
* YouNoTakeCandle: The Russians.
* ZanyScheme: At one point, they need a ZanyScheme to revert the effects of another one. Which they are responsible for.
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!!Examples:
* ActorAllusion: Red Buttons appears as an MP who does a "[[BeamMeUpScotty You dirty rat]]" impression to the face of CR [=MacNamara=]... played by James Cagney.
** Cagney holds up a piece of fruit so it looks like his famous "grapefruit" scene from ''The Public Enemy''.
* TheAllegedCar: The Soviet agents' Moskvitch 407.
-->-''"Is exact replica of 1937 Nash!"''[[labelnote:*]][[TheyJustDidntCare No, it isn't. It's a much smaller car with up-to-date late '50s styling]].[[/labelnote]]
* AllGermansAreNazis: Played with. [=MacNamara=] has a former S.S. member as his assistant; one scene shows his employees acting like complete robots when issued orders.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: And during ColdWar, no one was worse than a Commie.
* BaitAndSwitch: The very movie starts with it. JamesCagney starts talking how the world was looking to WashingtonDC on August the 13th of 1961... for a sports game. Oh, BTW, on the same day the Commies built TheBerlinWall.
* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Completely and utterly averted. JoanCrawford, at the time a major stockholder of Pepsi, was enraged by what she saw as blatant product placement.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
--> Peripetchikoff: "We have emergency meeting with Swiss Trade Delegation. They send us twenty car-loads of cheese. Totally unacceptable... full of holes."
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment[=/=]LoudOfWar: The communist who married the daughter of Coca Cola's CEO is being tortured in EastGermany... by being forced to listen to "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini" on repeat for hours on end. With the record spindle off-center. He writhes in pain.
* CrossDresser: [[spoiler:Schlemmer disguises in Ingeborg's dress to fool the Russians, so they'll let Otto free.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: [=MacNamara=]'s wife, sometimes.
* DirtyCommies
* TheDitz: Scarlett, definitely.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: This time the other way round. Before August 1961, people could cross the border between West and East Berlin quite easily - which millions of East Germans used to move to the golden west. The movie was based on this premise and suffered when the wall was built.
* GuileHero: [=MacNamara=]
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Graf von Droste-Schattenburg, who [[spoiler:is paid to adopt Otto]].
* ImprobablyCoolCar: [=MacNamara's=] "Adenauer" Mercedes; a regional Coca-Cola plant manager in Germany in 1961 would likely have had a smaller, near-taxi-spec "Ponton" Mercedes if not an Opel Rekord or Ford Taunus as a company car.
* {{Lzherusskie}}: The Russian characters are played by Austrian and German actors.
* MisplacedNationalism: Parodied when Jimmy Cagney is upset with Coca-Cola heiress Scarlet for taking part in a "Yankee, Go Home" rally: "But back home, ''everybody'' hates the Yankees!" ("Ami, Go Home" would have been a completely different thing, of course...)
* ProductPlacement: No wonder if the main character is a Coca-Cola exec.
* Creator/RichardWagner: The German doctor who finds out Scarlett's pregnant is very fond of him, and sadly missed the 3rd act of ''Die Walküre / The Valkyrie''
* SexySecretary: Ingeborg, played by Lilo Pulver, the fräuleinwunder.
* ShoutOut: To ''Film/LittleCaesar'', ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', ''Film/YankeeDoodleDandy'', ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', ''Film/{{Ninotchka}}''
* TooSoon: Especially the Germans weren't very fond of BillyWilder making fun of the wall. The movie was VindicatedByHistory though - later, in TheEighties.
* WideEyedIdealist: Otto about Communism. He even thinks it's a capitalist lie that Siberia is cold, and is happy that the Communists assigned them "a magnificent apartment, just a short walk from the bathroom!".
* YouNoTakeCandle: The Russians.
* ZanyScheme: At one point, they need a ZanyScheme to revert the effects of another one. Which they are responsible for.
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