Billy Wilder's Cold War farce has James Cagney as a Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin, delivering lines at machine-gun speed. Brisk and brash, it finds comedy in the Wall era's tensions.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

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IMDb: 7.8 / 10 (25,073 votes)
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