# One, Two, Three

One, Two, Three is a 1961 American comedy film about a Coca Cola salesman set in a Berlin divided between the capitalist west and Communist East.
    Written by Billy Wilder and written by him and I.A.L. Diamond, based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, kettö, három by Ferenc Molnár.

## Dialogue
##### C.R. MacNamara, the Coca-Cola (Berlin) boss, and Schlemmer, his German assistant

    C.R. MacNamara: Just between us, Schlemmer, what did you do during the war?
    Schlemmer: I was in der Untergrund: the underground.
    C.R. MacNamara: Resistance fighter?
    Schlemmer: No, motorman. In the underground, you know, the subway.
    C.R. MacNamara: Of course you were anti-Nazi and you never liked Adolf.
    Schlemmer: Adolf who?
    [But later, Schlemmer recognizes the reporter Untermeyer]
    Schlemmer: Herr Oberleutnant!
    C.R. MacNamara: You two know each other?
    Schlemmer: He was my commanding officer.
    C.R. MacNamara: In the subway?
    Schlemmer: No, after that, when I was drafted.
    C.R. MacNamara: Aha! Gestapo!
    Schlemmer: No, no, SS.

##### Otto, the young East German communist, Scarlet, his (to begin with secret) wife and daughter of the Coca-Cola top boss, the MacNamara's should take care of

    Otto: I will not have my son grow up to be a capitalist.
    Scarlet: When he's 18 he can make his mind up whether he wants to be a capitalist or a rich communist.
    Otto: They have assigned us a magnificent apartment. Just a short walk from the bathroom.
    Scarlett: Tell daddy I'm going to the U.S.S.R. That's short for Russia.
    C.R. MacNamara: Are you out of your seventeen year old mind? Russia is to get out of, not to get into!
    Otto: [bursts into room wearing boxers, shirt, tie and morning coat] I'm going to like this job!
    C.R. MacNamara: It's about time you started cooperating.
    Otto: You know what the first thing is I'm going to do? I'm going to lead the workers down there in revolt!
    C.R. MacNamara: Put your pants on, Spartacus!

##### C.R. MacNamara dealing with Russian biznismeni of East Berlin, and they with him, with a brief comment by Otto

    C.R. MacNamara: Cigarette? Cigar?
    Peripetchikoff: Here, take one of these.
    C.R. Macnamara: Thanks. Hm, 'Made in Havana'.
    Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
    C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.
    C.R. MacNamara: You know something? You guys got cheated. This is a pretty crummy cigar.
    Peripetchikoff: Do not worry. We send them pretty crummy rockets.
    Borodenko: When will papers be ready?
    C.R. Macnamara: I'll put my secretary right to work on it.
    Mishkin: Your secretary? She's that blond lady?
    C.R. Macnamara: That's the one.
    Peripetchikoff: [after conferring with the others] You will send papers to East Berlin with blond lady in triplicate.
    C.R. Macnamara: You want the papers in triplicate, or the blond in triplicate?
    Peripetchikoff: See what you can do.
    Peripetchikoff: Well, Comrades, what are we going to do? He's got it - we want it. Are we going to accept this blackmailing capitalist's deal?
    Mishkin: Let's take a vote.
    Peripetchikoff: I vote yes.
    Mishkin: I vote yes.
    Peripetchikoff: Two out of three. Deal is on!
    Borodenko: Comrades, before you get in trouble, I must warn you, I am not really from Soft Drink Secretariat. I am undercover agent assigned to watch you.
    Mishkin: In that case I vote no. Deal is off.
    Borodenko: But I vote yes!
    Peripetchikoff: Two out of three again! Deal is on!
    Otto Ludwig Piffl: Is everybody in this world corrupt?
    Peripetchikoff: I don't know everybody.
    MacNamara: You've defected?
    Peripetchikoff: Is old Russian proverb: "go west young man."

## Quotes
##### Otto on the space race

    Soviet missiles (shoots hand into the air) fffffffffffwwwwwwwwwwoooooosssh. Venus! American missiles (hand goes up then down) phft phft. Miami Beach.

##### Otto on the US

    Otto: Capitalism is like a dead herring in the moonlight. It shines, but it stinks!
    C.R. MacNamara: Schlemmer!! [Last line in movie as MacNamara finds a Pepsi-Cola in the Coke machine.]
    Otto: I spit on your money. I spit on Fort Knox. I spit on Wall Street.
    C.R. MacNamara: Unsanitary little jerk, isn't he?

## Cast

* James Cagney – C.R. "Mac" MacNamara
* Horst Buchholz – Otto Ludwig Piffl
* Pamela Tiffin – Scarlett Hazeltine
* Arlene Francis – Phyllis MacNamara
* Leon Askin – Peripetchikoff
* Howard St. John – Wendell P. Hazeltine