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
Howard St. John
as Wendell P. Hazeltine
Hanns Lothar
as Schlemmer
Leon Askin
as Peripetchikoff
Ralf Wolter
as Borodenko
Karl Lieffen
as Fritz
Hubert von Meyerinck
as Count von Droste Schattenburg
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...