Reply to Topic
While fellow MoFo poster Linespalsy was visiting me this summer, he mentioned that he was very interested in seeing Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, a cold war era comedy with James Cagney having a field day as the Coca Cola executive in West Berlin. As luck may have it, I have a taped copy of that film - I saw it as a 12 year old and massively enjoyed it, then caught a rerun on a Belgian channel - so we saw it together and it was a blast for both of us...come to think of it, I might watch it yet again myself.
Did anyone else see this comedic masterpiece ? Cagney is a real powerhouse in his role, but everyone in the cast shines - Horst Bucholz as the ideology-driven young communist, Pamela Tiffin as the not-so-bright southern beauty, Arlene Francis as Cagney's wisecracking wife, Lilo Pulver as the seductive secretary Ingeborg, and the legendary trio of Soviet executives...out of ton of great quotes which this film can offer, some personal favourites are (as written from what I recall, might not be 100% exact, but the context is there) :
McNamara (Cagney) : ...take this clock, the work of the dwarves from the black forest.
Otto (Bucholz) : So now you're exploiting dwarves !
McNamara (incensed) : You were shouting "Yankees go home" on a parade ?!?
Scarlet (Tiffin) : But that's what we always do down south !
Otto: I will not have my son grow up to be a capitalist.
Scarlet: When he's 18 he can make his mind up whether he wants to be a capitalist or a rich communist.
Did anyone else see this comedic masterpiece ? Cagney is a real powerhouse in his role, but everyone in the cast shines - Horst Bucholz as the ideology-driven young communist, Pamela Tiffin as the not-so-bright southern beauty, Arlene Francis as Cagney's wisecracking wife, Lilo Pulver as the seductive secretary Ingeborg, and the legendary trio of Soviet executives...out of ton of great quotes which this film can offer, some personal favourites are (as written from what I recall, might not be 100% exact, but the context is there) :
McNamara (Cagney) : ...take this clock, the work of the dwarves from the black forest.
Otto (Bucholz) : So now you're exploiting dwarves !
McNamara (incensed) : You were shouting "Yankees go home" on a parade ?!?
Scarlet (Tiffin) : But that's what we always do down south !
Otto: I will not have my son grow up to be a capitalist.
Scarlet: When he's 18 he can make his mind up whether he wants to be a capitalist or a rich communist.
__________________
(signature space for rent)
(signature space for rent)
