The Atlanta-based company represents the good ol' U.S. As far as Wilder and Diamond are concerned, MacNamara, Coca-Cola's head of bottling in Germany and a total company man. A lot of lines that needed a springboard, and we just went right through the springboard.We just did it, nine pages at a time, and he never fumbled, he never made a mistake.". But just the speed was funny.The general idea was, let's make the fastest picture in the world.And yeah, we did not wait, for once, for the big laughs. He really had the rhythm, and that was very good. But we had to go with Cagney, because Cagney was the whole picture. Knopf), the director commented on Cagney's delivery, saying "We knew that we were going to have a comedy, we not going to be waiting for the laughs. In Cameron Crowe's book, Conversations with Wilder (Alfred A. The former star of The Public Enemy (1931), no springĬhicken at this point, seems on the verge of a coronary throughout the Wilder's trademark cynicism is eclipsed by the sight and sound of JamesĬagney constantly shouting his dialogue at top volume. Though One, Two, Three (1961), a mile-a-minute battle royal pittingĬoca-Cola against Communism, is just as biting as you'd expect it to be, But he's probably best knownįor the merciless comedies he created with screenwriter I.A.L. Legendary career, both in Germany and America. He is so successful that Hazeltine decides that Otto is the man to head Coca-Cola's European operations MacNamara must settle for a vice-presidency in the Atlanta office.īilly Wilder wrote and/or directed a wide variety of pictures during his After arranging to have the marriage certificate removed from official files, MacNamara learns that Scarlett is pregnant aware that he must present Hazeltine with an ideal son-in-law, MacNamara gets Otto out of the East Berlin jail, buys him a royal title, and converts him into a well-groomed capitalist. Frantic, MacNamara plants on Otto a copy of the Wall Street Journal, which gets him arrested by the East German police. MacNamara learns the horrifying news at the same time he receives word that Hazeltine is arriving in West Berlin the next day. The girl's visit lasts 2 months, in which time she secretly marries Otto Ludwig Piffl, a beatnik Communist from East Berlin. His hopes are dashed, however, when he learns that his company is not interested in dealing with the Russians instead, he is ordered to chaperone his boss's daughter, 17-year-old Scarlett Hazeltine, during her 2-week stay in Berlin. MacNamara, a fast-talking Coca-Cola sales representative in West Berlin, is attempting to introduce the beverage behind the Iron Curtain, hopeful that such a coup will result in his promotion to head of European operations.
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