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Totalitarian Regime | Cheerful
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Top Ten Films | 1961
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1962
Best Written American Comedy | 1962 | I. A. L.
Budget 3,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 4,000,000 USD
In James Cagney's autobiography, he says that Horst Buchholz was the only actor he really hated working with because he was uncooperative and tried all kinds of scene-stealing moves, which Cagney depended on Billy Wilder to correct. Had Wilder not firmly directed Buchholz, Cagney said that he "was going to knock Buchholz on his ass, which at several points I would have been very happy to do".
Joan Crawford (then on the board of PepsiCo) telephoned director Billy Wilder to protest the movie's Coca-Cola connection. Wilder then added a final scene in which James Cagney buys four bottles of Coke from a vending machine. The last bottle out of the machine isn't Coke but another brand . . . Pepsi.
In an early scene, MacNamara begins negotiating with the three Russians, who offer him a Cuban cigar. The Russians tell MacNamara that they have a trade agreement: "We send them rockets, they send us cigars." What was written as a joke later turned out to be the truth--within one year (October 1962), Russian missiles were discovered in Cuba.
James Cagney had such a negative experience making this picture that he retired from films for 20 years until his cameo in Ragtime (1981).
The film was re-released 1985 in France and Germany. It was received enthusiastically in Germany, where it was given a grand re-premier at a large outdoor showing in Berlin. It also was aired simultaneously on television. It spent one year in Berlin's theaters.
"Borodenko: When will papers be ready? C.R. Macnamara: I'll put my secretary right to work on it. Mishkin: Your secretary? She's that blonde lady? C.R. Macnamara: That's the one. Peripetchikoff: [after conferring with the others] You will send papers to East Berlin with blonde lady in triplicate. C.R. Macnamara: You want the papers in triplicate, or the blonde in triplicate? Peripetchikoff: See what you can do."
"Peripetchikoff: But if I defect, you know what they will do to my family? They will line them up against the wall and shoot them! My wife, and my mother-in-law, and my sister-in-law, and my brother-in-law. [pauses] Peripetchikoff: Comrades, let's do it!"
