C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca-Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.

James Cagney
as C.R. MacNamara

Horst Buchholz
as Otto Ludwig Piffl

Pamela Tiffin
as Scarlett Hazeltine

Arlene Francis
as Phyllis MacNamara

Liselotte Pulver
as Fräulein Ingeborg

Hanns Lothar
as Schlemmer

Howard St. John
as Wendell P. Hazeltine

Leon Askin
as Peripetchikoff

Ralf Wolter
as Borodenko

Karl Lieffen
as Fritz
John Chard
Amazing Cagney performance in a film that has no resonance now. C.R. MacNamara is the head of Coca-Cola's bottling interests in Germany, he is a forceful man who wants to be all that he can be. He hopes to be the head of European operations for the company and is well on his way until the teenage...