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Movie for a Sunday afternoon: "One, Two, Three"(1961)
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Posted on 07/28/2013 11:56:09 AM PDT by ReformationFan



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Today's feature is Billy Wilder's Cold War satire masterpiece. Cagney plays the head of Coca-Cola's West Berlin factory who has more than his hands full when his boss' ditzy daughter marries a fanatical young Communist. Hilarious, fast-paced and full of great lines. My favorite of Wilder's pure comedies.
1 posted on 07/28/2013 11:56:09 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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“I will not have my son grow up to be a capitalist.”

“When he’s 18 he can make his mind up whether he wants to be a capitalist or a rich communist.”


2 posted on 07/28/2013 11:57:51 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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“So you just tell Daddy I’m on my way to the U.S.S.R. That’s short for Russia.”


3 posted on 07/28/2013 11:58:46 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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I remember that one. Hollywood attempting to show communists as young, hip, attractive and appealing while contrasting the stuffy Mammon-worshiping communist stereotype of a Yank . . .


4 posted on 07/28/2013 11:58:51 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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This is a masterpiece!


5 posted on 07/28/2013 11:58:57 AM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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My all-time favorite movie!!!!


6 posted on 07/28/2013 11:59:17 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Excellent choice.

“She married a communist? This is going to be the biggest thing to hit Atlanta since General Sherman threw that little barbecue!”


7 posted on 07/28/2013 12:01:03 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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“Schlemmer you’re back in the SS, small salary!”


8 posted on 07/28/2013 12:01:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bobalu

Agreed. Billy Wilder was a cinematic genius.


9 posted on 07/28/2013 12:01:37 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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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.


10 posted on 07/28/2013 12:02:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I remember seeing this at the drive-in when i was a kid. I LOVED it!

“Naked as a Jaybird, with “Yankee Go Home” tattooed across her chest!”.... LOL


11 posted on 07/28/2013 12:03:43 PM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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I don’t think the Communists came out looking very good in this one. In fact, whatever potshots Wilder takes at the West it’s clear that our side is portrayed as the better one and the one you’d want to be a part of.


12 posted on 07/28/2013 12:03:56 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: Bobalu

Isn’t it just marvy?


13 posted on 07/28/2013 12:04:09 PM PDT by dfwgator
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C.R. MacNamara: You’ve defected?
Peripetchikoff: Is old Russian proverb: “Go West young man.”


14 posted on 07/28/2013 12:04:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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His wonderful movie “The Apartment” (1960) is even better than this one.

You can see it here in bluray or download it using downloadhelper Firefox add-on.
http://viooz.co/movies/304-the-apartment-1960.html

More Billy Wilder films
http://viooz.co/search?q=Billy+Wilder&s=d


15 posted on 07/28/2013 12:05:43 PM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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“I spit on your money. I spit on Fort Knox. I spit on Wall Street.”

“Unsanitary little jerk, isn’t he?”


16 posted on 07/28/2013 12:06:43 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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It was more of a matter of sneaking stuff in.


17 posted on 07/28/2013 12:06:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Bobalu

Oh I love “The Apartment”. I just consider that more of a seriocomedy than “One, Two, Three”. There probably my top 2 favorite Wilder films.


18 posted on 07/28/2013 12:08:16 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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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!

As an aside Leon Askin, who played Peripetchikoff (and better known as General Burkhalter on Hogan’s Heroes), lived to the ripe old age of 98.


19 posted on 07/28/2013 12:08:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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“Put your pants on, Spartacus.”


20 posted on 07/28/2013 12:10:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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