Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
In Cold War-era West Berlin, American Coca-Cola executive C.R. 'Mac' MacNamara is tasked with playing babysitter to his boss' spoiled 17-year-old daughter Scarlett, who proves more difficult than anticipated when she reveals that she is pregnant by a Communist.
- prison
- capitalist
- berlin
- germany
- capitalism
- clerk
- cold war
- pregnancy
- soviet union
- iron curtain
- totalitarian regime
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Cagney
C.R. MacNamara
Horst Buchholz
Otto Ludwig Piffl
Pamela Tiffin
Scarlett Hazeltine
Arlene Francis
Phyllis MacNamara
- Liselotte Pulver — Fräulein Ingeborg
- Hanns Lothar — Schlemmer
- Howard St. John — Wendell P. Hazeltine
- Leon Askin — Peripetchikoff
- Ralf Wolter — Borodenko
- Karl Lieffen — Fritz
- Hubert von Meyerinck — Count von Droste Schattenburg
- Loïs Bolton — Melanie Hazeltine
- Peter Capell — Mishkin
- Til Kiwe — Reporter
- Henning Schlüter — Dr. Bauer
- Directed
- Billy Wilder
- Written
- Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 426 ratings
- Studio
- The Mirisch Company, Pyramid Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
