I remember this film from television many years ago and when a friend showed me it on tape in German I finally grabbed a copy on DVD.
WOW what a film... few films and even fewer comedies can sustain multiple showings.
BUT One Two Three is astounding.
Funny, satirical and even romantic with some of the fastest and sharpest dialogue ever to come out of an essentially Hollywood film.
Widler was a master and it shows.
With a top line cast headed by an extraordinary performance from James Cagney and a group of marvelous German actors and actresses ..and Lilo Pulver deserves special mention as the gum chewing secretary along with Hans Lothar as Schlemmer, Widler and I.A.L. Diamond create a wacky look at East West relations at the height of the Cold War.
I must also mention Arlen Francis who is just wonderful to watch as Cagney's long suffering wife.
It is interesting that Cagney and Buchholz (apparently) did not get on and this does add zing to their verbal duels!
But the whole cast is up to the funny antics that fill this film.
The use of music and Daniel Fapp's great wide screen cinematography (this is a film to really watch!!) are excellent.
So sit back, relax and just enjoy a great film, great cast and a genius director in action and I do mean ACTION!!!
WOW what a film... few films and even fewer comedies can sustain multiple showings.
BUT One Two Three is astounding.
Funny, satirical and even romantic with some of the fastest and sharpest dialogue ever to come out of an essentially Hollywood film.
Widler was a master and it shows.
With a top line cast headed by an extraordinary performance from James Cagney and a group of marvelous German actors and actresses ..and Lilo Pulver deserves special mention as the gum chewing secretary along with Hans Lothar as Schlemmer, Widler and I.A.L. Diamond create a wacky look at East West relations at the height of the Cold War.
I must also mention Arlen Francis who is just wonderful to watch as Cagney's long suffering wife.
It is interesting that Cagney and Buchholz (apparently) did not get on and this does add zing to their verbal duels!
But the whole cast is up to the funny antics that fill this film.
The use of music and Daniel Fapp's great wide screen cinematography (this is a film to really watch!!) are excellent.
So sit back, relax and just enjoy a great film, great cast and a genius director in action and I do mean ACTION!!!