One, Two, Three

C.R. MacNamara, the head of Coca-Cola's West Berlin operation, is angling for a promotion and sees his chance when his boss's daughter Scarlett arrives in the city. Asked to keep an eye on the spirited teenager, MacNamara instead finds himself dealing with a crisis: she has fallen for Otto, a young Communist from the other side of the divided city, and married him. With his boss due back shortly, MacNamara sets out to remake the revolutionary into a presentable son-in-law, a scheme that soon spirals far beyond his control.

Billy Wilder directed and produced the film, his fifteenth of twenty-two features in chronological order, following The Apartment and preceding Irma la Douce, and wrote the screenplay with his regular collaborator I. A. L. Diamond. James Cagney plays MacNamara, with Horst Buchholz as Otto, Pamela Tiffin as Scarlett, Arlene Francis as MacNamara's wife Phyllis, Liselotte Pulver as Fräulein Ingeborg and Hanns Lothar as Schlemmer among a credited cast of thirty-two. Made on a budget of three million dollars, it returned four million worldwide.

On IMDb the film holds a critics' rating of 7.6 out of 10 from twenty-five reviews, while on TMDB it has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from 439 votes, a small gap between professional and audience assessments. The comedy runs 109 minutes and was released in December 1961.