Wilder Comedy ‘One, Two, Three’ Next To Unspool In Figge Film Series
“One, Two, Three,” by the comedic film genius Billy Wilder is the next film to unspool in the Germans in Hollywood: Film & Lecture Series taking place at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. `14 at the Figge Art Museum-John Deere Auditorium, downtown Davenport. The film will be presented and accompanied by a lecture by Augustana College German professor Lisa Seidlitz.
Cost is $5 per person.
“One, Two, Three” is a 1961 American comedy directed by WIlder. The film festures James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Lilo Pulver, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Leon Askin, Howard St. John, and others. In the film a Coca-Cola executive’s daughter falls in love with a socialist East German; primarily set in West Berlin during the Cold War, before the construction of the Berlin Wall. Shown in entirety.
For more information on the film series, contact the German American Heritage Center at (563) 322-8844, info@gahc.org or www.gahc.org.