Not terrible but also not one of Wilder's strongest. The problem is that the frantic, zany energy and constant shouting gets exhausting. That said the movie nails how annoying young communists are.

A fun and enjoyable farce. The speed of the dialogue does begin to wear on you as the movie progresses, but there are some good laughs and it is worth the watch.

OH MY GOD That was the funniest picture I ever saw. Billy Wilder produced, directed, and co-wrote it, absolute genius. It is the zenith of his fast paced, high energy, screwball, comedies, and James Cagney gave an absolute masterclass in comedic timing played over-the-top for big laughs. All the hijinks of Some Like It Hot and Ball of Fire, but placed in and filmed in Berlin just before the Wall. Actually, the Berlin Wall disrupted the filming and it had to be finished in a studio. The corporate climbing capitalist, Cola executive, James Cagney, while attempting to close a deal with a triumvirate of incompetent corrupt Soviet commissars to sell Coke into the USSR runs aground when his boss sends his free spirited 17 year old daughter to Berlin for him to watch. Every possible escapade you can imagine, and those you can't, leaves Cagney with so many fires to put out, it will leave you be absolutely breathless. But laughing right up to the final scene. This is an abosolute masterpiece, and will have you asking, why did they stop making movies like this.

It is funny, but not Wilder at His best.

This is one of my favorite movies though younger people who are not up on their Cold War history may want to hang on to their phones for explanations. Still, the frenetic pace and a super-duper tour de force semi-final performance by the great Jimmy Cagney make this first rate entertainment for people who enjoy broad satirical farces. Cagney really gives it his all...he found the experience so exhausting that he retired from the movies for a twenty years but he left it all on the screen!

The movie a bit dated, the plot is ridiculous and all the actors shout their lines at a frenetic pace. Still, there are some real laughs here, enough to recommend.

Very funny satire poking fun at capitalism, communism, politics, with great dialogue. Cagney was great!

Eins, zwei, drei ist eine Filmkomödie von Billy Wilder, der auch mit I. A. L. Diamond das Drehbuch verfasste. Die Geschichte basiert auf dem Theaterstück Eins, zwei, drei (Originaltitel: Egy, kettő, három) von Ferenc Molnár aus dem Jahr 1929… Billy Wilder verlegte die Handlung nach West-Berlin zu Zeiten des Kalten Krieges, dort bekam ein führender Coca-Cola-Angestellter den Auftrag, die schicke und verwöhnte Tochter seines Chefs zu betreuen… Eins, zwei, drei ist eine temporeiche, schrille, bissige und zugleich liebevolle Farce, die herzlich mit einem satirischen Humor gewürzt ist… Ja, "eins, zwei, drei" zählt zu meinen Lieblingsfilmen, ich kann diesen flotten Klassiker immer wieder sehen…

Under appreciated Cold War comedy equal in qualify to Dr. Strangelove

Cagney is always fun but this script is nothing special.

I'm not a huge fan of Billy Wilder: his films are usually clever, witty and strangely airless, as if all the characters are being moved around a chessboard. He hits everything over the head with a hammer, and it's especially true here. The American head of the Berlin HQ for Coca-Cola is forced to entertain the wayward daughter of his boss (exhausted yet?), only to discover said daughter has quietly married an anti-American East German and her parents are about to arrive. It's shrill, shouty and almost totally unfunny. Cagney is good value, but one wishes Wilder would take it down several notches.

One, Two, Three is a movie about a man who runs a Coca-Cola distribution center in Germany at the time that the Cold War started and Berlin was divided. It is a strange combination of events that get this movie going, but that adds to the comedy of the situation. The idea of an underling having to watch out for the boss’s daughter was a familiar trope, but because of the political situation at the time, the complexity of the problems they experienced was significant. In fact, with just a few minor shifts in the plot, this could be a tragic drama film instead of a comedy. There is some slow build-up to the film, but when the climax gets going it is a laugh riot because there is so much frenetic insanity all happening at the same time. I had a great time watching everyone running in and out, shouting at each other, and bumbling around like crazy people. However, I wish that the main character in One, Two, Three was a more likable guy. It’s not that James Cagney played the part wrong, in fact he had the personality spot on. It was the way he was written that bothered me. As a cheater, liar, and all-around swindler, it was hard to get on his side and to root for him to succeed. Eventually you get caught up in the wacky events of the film, and that allowed me to forget some of his indiscretions. The tougher plot twist for me to swallow was the way that Horst Buchholz’s character turns in the final act. I understand that in many ways his choices were taken away from him, and he was stuck going along with Cagney, but it didn’t totally make sense to me that he would go that dramatically in the opposite direction. These character flaws were minor complaints, though, because the movie was fun enough that I didn’t care.

Crazy,frantic,high energy, fast paced and very funny.

Made in 1961, the same year when began the construction of the Berlin Wall, probably the best known and most memorable symbol of the Cold War. The plot is simple: CEO of the West German Coca-Cola hosts the daughter of his boss from the US, but she soon falls for a communist from the East Berlin. This development drives this humorous and dynamic movie that brilliantly captured the spirit of the time and through excellent dialogues, it very effectively questioned the ruling narratives, both Eastern and Western. Billy Wilder, Austrian Jew who fled from Berlin in 1933 when the Nazis came to power, made this dynamic movie that, through satire and comedy, confronts the Cold War madness and enormous tension that ruled divided Berlin that was the focal point of the divided world, which permanently lingered on the brink of nuclear war. The Berlin Wall was erected by the government of East Germany, with the official name "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" (Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) implying that West Germany didn't conduct the denazification process and that there is a continuity with the government from Nazi times. Moreover, the construction of the wall began on the night of 13 August 1961, while Billy Wilder was shooting the 1,2,3... in Berlin, forcing him to relocate from Berlin to Munich.

The best comedy movie ever made!

The movie starts as mediocre comedy but it builds up into such fast pace craziness I almost forgot to breath! :D

Not just a great attempt at caustic social commentary through the broadest of comedy, but also one the funniest movies of the '60s.

Muy divertida e inteligente, cada vez soy mas hincha de Billy Wilder.

Delightful comedy from Billy Wilder featuring wonderful performances from the talented cast, most notably Jimmy Cagney as MacNamara. As well as the visual slapstick humour and the witty dialogue, there are a number of classic inside jokes.

There's an old Russian proverb: Go west, young man!