Friday Classic Film Series at the Montauk Library

ONE, TWO, THREE

1961 • Approved • 1h 44m      Directed by Billy Wilder
James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis

During the Cold War in West Berlin, just before the Berlin Wall was built, an executive for Coca-Cola is put in charge of the daughter of his boss, a situation that could ruin his career. A political satire of an international crisis, the anti-Russian film was considered controversial when it was released. Variety called it “a fast-paced, high-pitched, hard-hitting, lighthearted farce crammed with topical gags and spiced with satirical overtones.” This was Cagney’s penultimate film role until Ragtime (1981).