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JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS

Directed by DENIS HEROUX Screenplay by ERIC BLAU

In One, Two, Three, Billy Wilder's cold-war farce, Horst Bucholz was held captive by ruthless commissars intent on prying secret information out of him. He resisted, at least initially. Then the villains immured him in a room with a phonograph that kept playing over and over It Was an Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. His will frayed, his sanity shot, Bucholz broke.

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