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One, Two, Three

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One, Two, Three	comment	One, Two, Three is a 1961 American Cold War comedy movie directed and co-written by Billy Wilder. Set in Berlin shortly before the wall was built, it's about a Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin who has to care for his boss's daughter, who is spending her holiday there. While also attempting to do business with some Communists, to expand Coca-Cola beyond the Iron Curtain. And learning that his marriage is about to fall apart. Plenty of Hilarity Ensues.Things seem to be going fine for C. R. MacNamara (James Cagney): Coca-Cola is doing well in West Germany, and he's about to complete a deal with the Soviet trade commission to get the brand past the Iron Curtain. Hoping this will earn him a prized position in London, Mac finds himself having to jump through one more hoop: the daughter of his boss is on a tour of Europe, and said boss insists that Mac look after her. So for over a month Scarlett Hazeltine (Pamela Tiffin) is a guest of Mac and his wife Phyllis (Arlene Francis).Scarlett's parents have made plans to come and take her back home. Unfortunately, her new, East German husband, Otto Ludwig Piffl (Horst Buchholz), has other plans. It seems Scarlett had been sneaking out of the house the whole time she was with the MacNamaras, and slipping behind the Iron Curtain to have fun on the town. Which is where she ran into the young Communist, and naturally, they fell in love... naturally. At first Mac tries to get the marriage annulled, by hook or by crook â€“ but then it turns out that Scarlett is pregnant. So now Mac must try and somehow make Otto acceptable to Scarlett's conservative, high-society parents so he doesn't get thrown out into the streets.Adapted from a 1929 Hungarian play (Egy, kettÅ‘, hÃ¡rom) by Ferenc MolnÃ¡r, with plot elements lifted from Wilder's own screenplay for Ninotchka. James Cagney retired from acting after completing this film, although he returned 20 years later to star in Ragtime.
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One, Two, Three / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
One, Two, Three / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Getting everyone to the airport, MacNamara shouts to Fritz, "Ein, Zwei, Drei!"
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One, Two, Three / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
One, Two, Three / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: MacNamara's scheme to turn Otto into a suitable son-in-law for the Hazeltines succeeds so well that they award Otto the position as head of European distribution to which MacNamara had been aspiring for years.
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One, Two, Three / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
One, Two, Three / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: The hotel orchestra playing the German version of "Yes, We Have No Bananas" is conducted by composer Friedrich Hollaender ("Falling in Love Again"). And Red Buttons appears as a U.S. military policeman.
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One, Two, Three / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
One, Two, Three / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Bribery is a large part of MacNamara's modus operandi throughout the movie, which e. g. enables him to have Otto's and Scarlett's wedding papers removed from the East Berlin registry office and later returned and to get Count von Droste-Schattenburg to adopt Otto. Luckily for him, the Communists don't ask for that much and he can force Otto to vouch for part of the expenses.
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One, Two, Three / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
One, Two, Three / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: MacNamara is one of the nominal kind.
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One, Two, Three / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
One, Two, Three / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Two Russian spies were sent to discover the Coca Cola secret formula, and ended up becoming successful American businessmen. Some of the Russians end up defecting too.
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One, Two, Three / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
One, Two, Three / int_392372f9	comment	Besides all the Actor Allusions for James Cagney, he also tips his hat to his Warner Bros. colleague Edward G. Robinson by saying "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?"
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One, Two, Three / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
One, Two, Three / int_3b4abb27	comment	Double Meaning: Schlemmer told MacNamara that during World War II he had been "with the underground", correctly assuming that MacNamara would take that to mean "with the anti-Nazi resistance". In the course of the movie, when it emerges that that is not the case, he lamely explains he was with the underground railway system.
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One, Two, Three / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
One, Two, Three / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme: At one point, they need a zany scheme to revert the effects of another one. Which they are responsible for.
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One, Two, Three / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
One, Two, Three / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Otto about Communism. He even thinks it's a capitalist lie that Siberia is cold, and is happy that the Communists assigned them "a magnificent apartment, just a short walk from the bathroom!".
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One, Two, Three / int_41f55ee1	type	On Second Thought
One, Two, Three / int_41f55ee1	comment	On Second Thought: After the Russians realize Otto has been arrested as a spy, they start to waver on rescuing him:
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One, Two, Three / int_447b77a5	type	"Fawlty Towers" Plot
One, Two, Three / int_447b77a5	comment	"Fawlty Towers" Plot: MacNamara sets Otto up to get arrested, then has to rescue him and quickly concoct a scheme to make him acceptable to Hazeltine, all to get a promotion. He even has some character similarities to Basil Fawlty.
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One, Two, Three / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
One, Two, Three / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Peripetchikoff's are implied to be this, since he mentions they might be targeted by the Secret Police if he defects... then enthusiastically agrees to defect.
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One, Two, Three / int_642594ea	type	Pygmalion Plot
One, Two, Three / int_642594ea	comment	Pygmalion Plot: MacNamara has ten hours to turn Otto from a slovenly Communist to a dapper businessman worthy of the boss's daughter.
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One, Two, Three / int_681bcd81	type	Clumsy Copyright Censorship
One, Two, Three / int_681bcd81	comment	Clumsy Copyright Censorship: Completely and utterly averted. Joan Crawford, at the time a major stockholder of Pepsi, was enraged by what she saw as blatant product placement. In response, the very last gag in the film involves Pepsi — MacNamara puts a nickel in a Coke machine at Templehof airport and is rather annoyed that he receives... a bottle of Pepsi.
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One, Two, Three / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
One, Two, Three / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: The Russians.
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One, Two, Three / int_7089d02e	type	All Germans Are Nazis
One, Two, Three / int_7089d02e	comment	All Germans Are Nazis: Played with. MacNamara has a former SS member as his assistant; one scene shows his employees acting like complete robots when issued orders. This comes in handy when Schlemmer gives away that the investigative reporter who threatens to expose the whole deal is a former SS first lieutenant, an ObersturmfÃ¼hrer.
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One, Two, Three / int_779a531f	type	Improbably Cool Car
One, Two, Three / int_779a531f	comment	Improbably Cool Car: MacNamara's "Adenauer" Mercedes; a regional Coca-Cola plant manager in Germany in 1961 would have had at most a smaller, near-taxi-spec "Ponton" Mercedes, but more likely an Opel Rekord or Ford Taunus or even a VW Beetle as a company car. Mac's independently wealthy, though, so maybe he bought it with his own money at a better price than he could've gotten back home in the US.
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One, Two, Three / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
One, Two, Three / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Count von Droste-Schattenburg, currently working as a restroom attendant. He is paid to adopt Otto. Evidently his family has had money problems for a long time, as he shows MacNamara a photo of the ruins of his ancestral castle - destroyed not in World War II, but by the Turks in the 17th century.
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One, Two, Three / int_7de3aec2	type	What Does She See in Him?
One, Two, Three / int_7de3aec2	comment	What Does She See in Him?: Ingeborg and Peripetchikoff (Leon Askin).
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One, Two, Three / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
One, Two, Three / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: One of the thing that really annoys MacNamara about the East German Commies is that they buy Coca-Cola in West Berlin but don't return the empties.
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One, Two, Three / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
One, Two, Three / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: James Cagney's performance here exhausted him so much that he retired. Otto is also quite...passionate about being a Communist and chewing out the decadent West.
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One, Two, Three / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
One, Two, Three / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: C.R. MacNamara is a self-centered, social-climbing, sycophantic, dishonest, adulterous blowhard, but since James Cagney's playing him, the audience is still on his side.
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One, Two, Three / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
One, Two, Three / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Otto starts out as a dedicated communist who appears to have enthusiastically swallowed the party line. This changes after the Stasi assume he's a spy and torture him into confessing. When McNamara offers him a job and a title, Otto turns into a dedicated capitalist almost immediately.
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One, Two, Three / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
One, Two, Three / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The very movie starts with it. MacNamara starts talking how America was looking to Washington, D.C. on August the 13th of 1961... for a baseball game. Oh, by the way, on the same day the Commies built the Berlin Wall.
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One, Two, Three / int_8b0da020	type	Even Beggars Won't Choose It
One, Two, Three / int_8b0da020	comment	Even Beggars Won't Choose It: MacNamara lampshades that the Soviets are so desperate to get their hand on Coca-Cola, that they once tried to create their own brand called "Kremlin Cola". It was so bad that they gave all of it away to Albania, who then used it as a flea bath for sheep.
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One, Two, Three / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
One, Two, Three / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: MacNamara gets the East German border guards at the Brandenburg Gate to wave his car through and not ask inconvenient questions by giving them ... a six-pack of Coca-Cola.
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One, Two, Three / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
One, Two, Three / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: All the commies depicted are duplicitous and perfectly willing to screw their fellow party members for their own benefit.
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One, Two, Three / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
One, Two, Three / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: Any time Germans are alone together, they speak German with no subtitles. Wilder uses visual cues, along with German words that sound similar to English words ("spion" for "spy") to help English-speaking audiences understand what they're talking about.
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One, Two, Three / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
One, Two, Three / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The Internationale for the Commies, Yankee Doodle for MacNamara and to signal how quickly time passes, as it's the tune played by his cuckoo clock.
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One, Two, Three / int_a4247d2b	type	Multiboobage
One, Two, Three / int_a4247d2b	comment	Multiboobage: Not in the movie itself, but the poster is (probably deliberately) reminiscent of a woman with three breasts.
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One, Two, Three / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
One, Two, Three / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: At the beginning of the film, with clips of the main actors accompanying their names.
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One, Two, Three / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
One, Two, Three / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: MacNamara's wife Phyllis.
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One, Two, Three / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
One, Two, Three / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: The original MolnÃ¡r play is about a businessman whose biggest client's daughter marries an obnoxious young socialist. Wilder kept the basic premise but updated it from 1920s Paris to Berlin at the height of the Cold War.
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One, Two, Three / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
One, Two, Three / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: MacNamara has two: "Sitzen machen!"note The ungrammatical German phrase can be rendered as "sitting make!" in English. and "SCHLEMMER!!!" Both are borrowed by other characters in the course of the movie.
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One, Two, Three / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
One, Two, Three / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: The aforementioned Intrepid Reporter is unable to be put off even with extravagant bribes until Schlemmer does a Nazi salute to him in front of MacNamara and addresses him with an SS rank. The reporter quickly backs off note The allies would never have allowed a former SS officer to work as a reporter in postwar Germany.
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One, Two, Three / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
One, Two, Three / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: When Otto is interrogated by the Stasi, they drive him to confess... by making him listen to "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini" on repeat for hours on end. For what it's worth, Billy Wilder hated rock music. At the very end of the movie, MacNamara puts a nickel in a vending machine and is clearly not happy when he receives a bottle of Pepsi.
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One, Two, Three / int_b89ab683	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
One, Two, Three / int_b89ab683	comment	Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Schlemmer (Hanns Lothar) often is this to MacNamara, as he is the one who has to implement most of his zany schemes.
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One, Two, Three / int_b8f395f	type	Royally Screwed Up
One, Two, Three / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: Apparently Count Droste-Schattenburg's family, at least he takes perverse pride in being descended from a hemophiliac ancestor.
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One, Two, Three / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
One, Two, Three / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: MacNamara is quite happy to feed newlywed Otto to the East German secret police to save his career, flips out when it's discovered that Scarlett is pregnant because of what the boss will do to him, and completely ignores the fact that his wife has completely had it with globetrotting and his behavior.
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One, Two, Three / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
One, Two, Three / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: When production commenced in Berlin, there was no wall. Halfway through production, the Deutsche Demokratische Republik decided, quite inconveniently, to erect the first layers of what would eventually become Die Mauer. This threw a monkey wrench in the plans of the filmmakers, especially when they had obtained permits to shoot near the Brandenburg Gate. This time the other way round. Before August 1961, people could cross the border between West and East Berlin quite easily - which millions of East Germans used to move to the promised golden west. The movie was based on this premise and suffered when the wall was built.
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One, Two, Three / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
One, Two, Three / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: The communist who married the daughter of Coca Cola's CEO is being tortured in East Berlin ... by being forced to listen to "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini" on repeat for hours on end. When that is not enough, they play it with the record spindle off-center. He writhes in pain and finally caves in, confessing to being an American spy. It should be noted this was an inverted case of Author Appeal: Billy Wilder hated Rock & Roll.
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One, Two, Three / int_c0d32460	type	Sexy Secretary
One, Two, Three / int_c0d32460	comment	Sexy Secretary: MacNamara's secretary Ingeborg, played by Lilo Pulver. The Soviet trade delegation is certainly taken with her.
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One, Two, Three / int_c1883f29	type	Crossdresser
One, Two, Three / int_c1883f29	comment	Cross Dresser: Schlemmer disguises in Ingeborg's dress to fool the Russians, so they'll let Otto free.
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One, Two, Three / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
One, Two, Three / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: MacNamara is annoyed that everybody stops working and stands at attention whenever he enters the main office room, because it's hardly in keeping with the values of freedom and democracy. Schlemmer tries to explain to him that it is because the employees have internalized these values that they keep doing it. He ordered them to stop standing at attention, but they keep disobeying him!
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One, Two, Three / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
One, Two, Three / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The name of the hotel in East Berlin, Grand Hotel Potemkin, is obviously a shout-out to Battleship Potemkin and not the Czarist general and lover of Catherine the Great. A passionately romantic young woman from Atlanta called Scarlett? Who'd have thought! Besides all the Actor Allusions for James Cagney, he also tips his hat to his Warner Bros. colleague Edward G. Robinson by saying "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?"
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One, Two, Three / int_cb54721a	type	Fun with Palindromes
One, Two, Three / int_cb54721a	comment	Fun with Palindromes: Scarlett finds it exciting that "Otto" reads the same back to front.
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One, Two, Three / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
One, Two, Three / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: The fate that MacNamara is trying to avoid for most of the film: reassignment to the home office in Atlanta. It happens in the end, but he faces it with equanimity, since it will let him be with his family, who have announced their intention to return to America with or without him.
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One, Two, Three / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
One, Two, Three / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: And during Cold War, no one was worse than a Commie.
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One, Two, Three / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
One, Two, Three / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Peripetchikoff is implied to have one, complete with Obnoxious In-Laws. When one of his comrades suggest they defect, he responds that unlike him, he has a wife and in-laws the authorities might take action against... then enthusiastically agrees to it.
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One, Two, Three / int_e0b6edec	type	OnlySaneWoman
One, Two, Three / int_e0b6edec	comment	Only Sane Woman: Phyllis, who pokes holes in MacNamara's Zany Scheme logic, and is generally unimpressed with the absurd goings-on.
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One, Two, Three / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
One, Two, Three / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Scarlett, definitely.
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One, Two, Three / int_e2e4edb2	type	Yiddish as a Second Language
One, Two, Three / int_e2e4edb2	comment	Yiddish as a Second Language: When a man enters shouting "Schmuck!", MacNamara at first thinks he's calling him a bad name.note In case you wondered, the Yiddish pejorative "schmuck" also exists in German, but with a different spelling and pronunciation: "Schmock". It also has a slightly different meaning and connotations, and is considered a much milder term than in American English. It turns out the guy is bringing the jewelry he ordered to kit out the bride and groom.
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One, Two, Three / int_e32c80d9	type	Going Commando
One, Two, Three / int_e32c80d9	comment	Going Commando: Scarlett proudly tells Phyllis MacNamara that her husband Otto does not even wear underwear. Phyllis' response: "No wonder we are losing the Cold War!"
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One, Two, Three / int_e42e91b4	type	Godwin's Law
One, Two, Three / int_e42e91b4	comment	Godwin's Law: In a sign of maybe not the healthiest marriage, Phyllis refers to her husband as "Mein FÃ¼hrer."
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One, Two, Three / int_eea06f9a	type	Artistic License â€“ Cars
One, Two, Three / int_eea06f9a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Cars: What the Soviet trade delegation claims to be an "exact replica of 1937 Nash" is a much smaller car with up-to-date late 1950s styling.
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One, Two, Three / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
One, Two, Three / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: The Soviet trade delegation's Moskvitch 407.
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One, Two, Three / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
One, Two, Three / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: For Coca-Cola, which makes sense since the main character works for them. And for Pepsi at the end.
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One, Two, Three / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
One, Two, Three / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point:
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One, Two, Three / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
One, Two, Three / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: At least two: MacNamara is annoyed because Commies keep buying Coke in West Berlin, drinking it in East Berlin, but don't return the bottles. When he and his crew drive to East Berlin to spring Otto from prison, they have an uncomfortable few minutes waiting at the Brandenburg Gate because the border guard makes them wait so he can fetch the emptied six-pack of Coca-Cola (that MacNamara had given to him earlier to let him through with no questions asked) from the guard-room. When MacNamara wants to make a phone call to East Berlin, his assistant Schlemmer tells him that it is very complicated, as there are no direct lines and the call will have to be routed on a circuitous route via Stockholm and Warsaw. And then you often get the wrong number. At a later point in the film Schlemmer cheerfully announces to MacNamara that the call finally got through. "And like I told you: Wrong number."
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Confessions Of Felix Krull	seeAlso	One, Two, Three
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Bait-and-Switch / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Clumsy Copyright Censorship / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Comically Small Bribe / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Constantly Changing Name / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Cool and Unusual Punishment / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Creepy Changing Painting / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Cultural Translation / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Disguised in Drag / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Even Beggars Won't Choose It / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Going Commando / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Insane Troll Logic / int_f493e37e
One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Loud of War / int_f493e37e
One Two Three	seeAlso	One, Two, Three
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One, Two, Three	hasFeature	Zany Scheme / int_f493e37e

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