One, Two, Three

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After The Apartment, Billy Wilder returned to his native Europe and a more explicitly comic sensibility. It’s a steady build of comic tension that explodes into madcap energy by the end, and I find it absolutely riveting.

C.R. MacNamara, the head of Coca Cola’s operations in West Berlin (immediately before the construction of the Berlin Wall which started construction during filming), is trying to find his way back up the corporate ladder after a disaster in the Middle East that sent him...