It’s frenetic fun with a suitably bitter aftertaste. (Otto says his Moscow supervisors “have assigned us a magnificent apartment - just a short walk from the bathroom”). Diamond packed the film with dozens of Cold War jokes (The apparatchik boasts that “We have trade agreement with Cuba: they send us cigars, we send them rockets”) and Soviet-poverty gags left over from Wilder’s script for the Garbo Ninotchka. MacNamara must transform the Rednik into a European gentleman while negotiating with a Soviet apparatchik. But his boss’s daughter (Pamela Tiffin) is in love with scruffy Otto, an East German communist (Horst Buchholz) who wants to whisk her off to Moscow. MacNamara (James Cagney, in his last film for 20 years) is head of West Berlin operations for the Coca-Cola Company and dreams of a promotion to run all of Europe. Cast: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis Get This Movieīilly Wilder, an Austrian Jew who was writing scripts in Germany until he emigrated in 1933, returned twice to make political comedies: the 1948 A Foreign Affair, with Marlene Dietrich superb as a world- and war-weary frau and this cockamamie satire of Cold War relations.
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