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One, Two, Three

1961

Billy Wilder

James Cagney, Pamela Tiffin, Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis ...

8.2

27,620

Comedy Comedy about Coca-Cola's man in West Berlin, who may be fired if he can't keep his American boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.

	Author	Review
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"It is one with which you can laugh—with its own impudence toward foreign crises"	POS
United States	Variety	"The screenplay, based on a one-act play by Ferenc Molnar, is outstanding."	POS
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"The pace is blistering, and Wilder's deep-seated hatred of Germans has never been put to more comic use."	POS
United States	J. Hoberman Village Voice	"[It] celebrates as it satirizes American cultural imperialism."	POS
United States	Gwen Ihnat AV Club	"[It] fires countless Cold War wisecracks while serving as a perfect showcase for James Cagney"	POS
United States	Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"Wilder mixed the Cold War and the Berlin Wall with his comedic sensibilities and turned a diplomatic nightmare into a take-no-prisoners assault on the funny bone."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Marvellous one-liners, of course, and Cagney, spitting out his lines with machine-gun rapidity (...) But the targets of Wilder's satire (...) are rather too obvious."	NEU
Australia	Urbancinefile	"[It] may not be either Billy Wilder's or James Cagney's subtlest work, but it's an energetic and sometimes unsettling exercise in brash bad taste (...) Many of the non-stop jokes may be obvious and corny, but some are unforgettable"	NEU

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