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...play by Ferenc Molnar and partly from a Wilder-Brackett-Lubitsch movie called Ninotchka (1939), is almost as intricate as the famous secret recipe for Coca-Cola-a beverage that, incidentally, benefits in this film from 108 minutes of effervescent and unmitigated schlock. The hero (James Cagney), who heads up the Coca-Cola operation in West Berlin, dreams of a deal with Moscow's Soft Drink Secretariat that will 1) insinuate the pause that refreshes into the Communist way of life, and 2) install him in London as chief of European operations. While the deal is still pending...
...There goes that job in London-unless . . . With fiendish glee, Cagney plants a Wall Street Journal in the groom's motorcycle, gets the poor patsy clapped in a Communist clink. But Cagney stops milking his gloat when he finds himself snapped in his own trap. The boss's daughter turns out to be pregnant, and the boss himself announces that he will arrive in Berlin within 24 hours. Problem: in that one little old puckered-up day that he has left, can Cagney 1) spring the groom from his East German cell, and 2) convert him into...
...smiles-per-hour. In fact, many of the jokes are soggy burps that might well have been planted in the script by a secret agent from Canada Dry. But many more, as usually happens in pictures written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. ("Izzy") Diamond, have edge and temper. Cagney's wife (Arlene Francis): "But she can't stay long. Doesn't school open soon?" Cagney: "In Georgia? You never know." Cagney's ten-year-old son, hopefully, when the boss's daughter has a fainting spell: "If she dies can I have my room back...
Throughout the three-day trial, Gallo refused to say a word in his defense, although he did allow himself a Cagney-like snarl at a haggle of assistant district attorneys. "Ya dirty rats!" he observed. The jury quickly found Gallo guilty of attempted extortion and conspiracy. The finding, his first major conviction, could get Gallo up to 14½ years in Sing Sing when he is sentenced next month...
Johansson-Patterson Prefight Program (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Fight Fan James Cagney interviews the two heavyweights on the eve of their return bout; films of Johansson's earlier victory over Patterson are technically analyzed by Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney...