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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Wilder again turns a cynical workplace into a machine-gun farce: rapid overlapping dialogue, institutional hypocrisy, escalating deadlines, and characters trying to survive their own ruthless improvisations.
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Why this pick
Its breakneck verbal rhythm and battle-of-wits romance offer the same exhilarating sense of people talking, scheming, and panicking faster than events can catch up.
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Why this pick
A cold-war-adjacent political farce with frantic power plays, poisonous bureaucracy, and hilariously brisk reversals; it shares Wilder’s taste for comedy sharpened by historical tension.
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Why this pick
For the kinetic, satirical side of One, Two, Three: officials scramble through international politics, with escalating misunderstandings and blistering dialogue replacing polished diplomacy.
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Why this pick
A deceptively ordinary man becomes caught in a spy-game farce, delivering the same East-West-era nervousness, rapid complications, and comic contrast between grand plots and human incompetence.
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01 / THE STORY
C.R. "Mac" MacNamara is a high-ranking executive in the Coca-Cola Company, assigned to West Berlin after a business fiasco a few years earlier in the Middle East (about which he is still bitter). While based in West Germany for now, Mac is angling to become head of Western European Coca-Cola Operations, based in London. After working on an arrangement to introduce Coke into the Soviet Union, Mac receives a call from his boss, W.P. Hazeltine, at Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta. Scarlett Hazeltine, the boss's hot-blooded but slightly dim 17-year-old socialite daughter, is coming to West Berlin. Mac is assigned the unenviable task of taking care of this young whirlwind.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Fräulein Ingeborg
Wendell P. Hazeltine
Mishkin
Zeidlitz
Tommy MacNamara
Peripetchikoff
C.R. MacNamara
Otto Ludwig Piffl
