Winner of numerous Academy and BAFTA Awards, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. The movie stars Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, an office clerk who curries favor with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his small apartment for the odd afternoon dalliance. Among them is his callous boss, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), who Baxter eventually learns is using his place to sleep with Miss Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the sweet elevator operator the clerk has loved from afar. When Sheldrake... coldly dumps the vulnerable young woman, she tries to commit suicide, but is saved by the intervention of Baxter. As the clerk lovingly nurses the young woman back to health he begins to realize, with the help of epigrammatic neighbor Dr. Dreyfuss (Jack Kruschen), exactly how much of a fool he has been. Wilder brilliant depiction of the average American office as a place of brutality, coldness, and alienation conjure up Kafka and Marx. The director seduces the audience into what appears to be an unusually frank sex comedy, but turns the tables in displaying the consequences of the executive's cold indifference. Lemmon and MacLaine both give career performances and MacMurray is memorable as the blandly smiling snake.
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Apartment, The
Bud Baxter is an ambitious drone at a major insurance company, and he has a problem. The senior executives have got in the habit of borrowing his apartment for their extra-marital trysts, leaving him out on the streets. His cooperation ensures a series of promotions, but things become more complicated when his boss begins using the apartment for dates with Fran Kubelik, the girl he loves.
The Apartment is a classic comedy with sadness at its heart, and a model of economy and timing. The quickfire dialogue is classic Billy Wilder, such as when Fran describes a severe hangover as having a head ?like a big wad of chewing gum.? The plot is intricate and precise, veering close to farce wit...
The old ones are best...
This has to be one of the slickest bits of directing ever. Just look at the scene in the bar with Jack Lemmon and Joyce Jameson (as the floozie) WOW! - it's a masterpiece. MacLaine stays intriguing right to the end, and the little people triumph!
Marvellous.
Apartment, The
This comedy tells truths about American business and sexual mor?s as uncomfortable now as they were in 1960
Apartment, The
Diamond-sharp satire with a brilliant performance from Lemmon as the insurance clerk who forges ahead in the rat race...
Apartment, The
Most of the time, it's up to director Wilder to sustain a two-hour-plus film on treatment alone, a feat he manages to accomplish more often than not, and sometimes the results are amazing
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