In his last starring film (it was supposed to be his last film, but Ragtime came along in 1981), James Cagney plays Coca-Cola executive C.R. MacNamara. Assigned to manage Coke's West Berlin office, MacNamara dreams of being transferred to London, and to do this he must curry favor with his ...more
Year: 1961 | Running Time: 110 minutes
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Adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond from a Ferenc Molnar play, Wilder's rapid-fire comedy ferociously satirizes the Cold War divide between East and West. Featuring a peerless James Cagney in his last starring role and set in West Berlin, the breathless farce sends up everything from soft-drink capitalism to Communist hypocrisy, Soviet disorganization, male lechery, female giddiness, postwar Germany, and American pop culture. With a relentless stream of one-liners and numerous comic set ...more
- James Cagney - C.R. MacNamara
- Horst Buchholz - Otto Ludwig Piffl
- Pamela Tiffin - Scarlett Hazeltine
- Arlene Francis - Phyllis MacNamara
- Liselotte Pulver - Ingeborg
- Hubert Von Meyerinck - Count Von Droste-Schattenburg
- Jasper VonOertzen - Haberdasher
- Howard St. John - Hazeltine
- Hanns Lothar - Schlemmer
- Lois Bolton - Mrs. Hazeltine
- Leon Askin - Peripetchikoff
- Peter Capell - Mishkin
- Ralf Wolter - Borodenko
- Karl Lieffen - Fritz
- Billy Wilder - Director
- Billy Wilder - Producer
- Billy Wilder - Screenwriter
- I.A.L. Diamond - Screenwriter
- Alexandre Trauner - Art Director
- I.A.L. Diamond - Associate Producer
- Doane Harrison - Associate Producer
- Tom Pevsner - First Assistant Director
- Dan Mandell - Editor
- Andre Previn - Composer (Music Score)
- Andre Previn - Musical Direction/Supervision
- Josef Coesfeld - Makeup
- Daniel L. Fapp - Cinematographer
- William Calihan, Jr. - Production Manager











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