One,Two, Three is
a 1961 American Comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder and
I.A.L. Diamond. It is derived from the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, ketto,
harom by Ferenc Molnar, with a “plot borrowed partly from “Ninotchka, a 1939
film co-written by Wilder. The comedy features James Cagney, Pamela Tiffin, Horst
Buchholz, Leon Askin, Arlene Francis, Howard St. John, and others. It would be
Cagney’s last film look until Ragtime, 20 years later.
The film is mainly
set in West Berlin during the Cold War, but before the building of the Berlin
Wall, and politics is major in the premise. The film is known for its quick
pace.