This 1960 color film about Pepsi Cola is a Gene Searchinger Production. It is a spoof on detective movies. A frosted glass door reads “Mike Hammerlock, Private Oparative” misspelled. His beautiful secretary talks on a candlestick telephone; the shot begins with her long legs. Mike, wearing a suit and hat, answers his candlestick telephone. He lights a cigarette. The ash tray is full of cigarette butts. He puts on his trench coat (:08-2:18). The Pepsi-Cola building sign is shown. Pepsi glass bottles are mechanically placed on a conveyor belt, sterilized, and filled (2:20-3:56). A man in a lab coat randomly removes bottles for testing inside a field laboratory (3:58-4:19). Wooden containers are stacked high with “Drink Pepsi-Cola” in red letters. Bottle caps are shown from the top-down. The crates are loaded by forklift into a Pepsi truck with open sides (4:20-5:04). The detective follows by bicycle. Inside the Daitch Shopwell store, the delivery man in a uniform with tie and hat stacks a Pepsi display. He hands an eight-pack in a cardboard container to a pretty shopper. Another woman wears a dress and pearls. The truck leaves a Quality Market with Pepsi-Cola signage. A store worker in all white carries out Pepsi and puts it in the backseat of a white 1960 convertible (5:06-5:57). The secretary walks her cocker spaniel to the hairdressers, where the Pepsi deliveryman is leaving. A man uses the built-in bottle cap opener on the Pepsi vending machine and hands the drinks to children in a 1960 Cadillac convertible. A case is loaded into the trunk. The driver refills Pepsi-by-the-cup vending machines at a Walgreens (5:58-7:38). PR photos shown are Miss America, Bob Hope, Disneyland, and the Moscow Trade Fair, as well as magazine ads. The secretary rubs his temples (7:40-9:14). A Pepsi delivery truck enters the back entrance of Buckingham Palace. Germans drink Pepsi with pretzels. Pepsi is drank in front of the Sphinx. Pepsi crates are carried on men’s heads in Ghana. A Pepsi stand is shown in Africa. The logo is shown in Bangkok. The delivery truck is a boat. A commercial is shot in Australia, where Pepsi is drank with oysters. The delivery driver bows and removes the bottle caps in Japan (9:16-14:30). Pepsi is drank on the beach in Hawaii. The back of a San Francisco cable car advertises Pepsi. Bridge players in Arizona drink it, as does a Miami woman in a gold bathing suit. A sailor and woman share a glass of Pepsi in Washington, D.C., where crates of Pepsi are delivered to the White House (14:32-16:37). The Pepsi-Cola New York plant and Park Avenue headquarters are shown. People eating outdoors are served Pepsi by a waiter (16:39-17:40). Pepsi is sold from multiple booths as a busy county fair with rides, food, and games. Smiling people drink it from bottles and cups off and on rides. Various Pepsi signs are interspersed (16:39-20:25). The secretary offers Mike the candlestick telephone. He puts on a Pepsi deliveryman hat (20:27-20:50).

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