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Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT blends his customary harsh cynicism with a humane streak that appears only fleetingly in his films. It 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 his 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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Genre: Comedies
Rating: Not Rated
Relase Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Format: VHS
UPC: 00027616130730
This is a very well crafted as well as entertaining movie. It is a unique blend of comedy with total seriousness. It is filled with running gags, some of which are subtle. If you don't watch and listen closely you may miss some the first time around. Then other parts are emotional and intense. Though it deals with the subject of marital infidelity, it does not put infidelity in a positive light....
Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacClaine, and directed by the great Billy Wilder. Typical Wilder stuff combining light comedy and pathos alternated throughout. A fine film and one I bought for my movie collection. Recommended.
One of the top five movies on my bestof list.Not just a romantic comedy where you laugh and forget everything the next day.In my opinion too, Jack Lemmon's best movie.
It has perhaps aged poorly, but in The Apartment, director Billy Wilder's customary cynicism is leavened here by tender humor, romance, and genuine pathos.
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The Apartment (VHS - 1960)
A great movie. Jack Lemmon if perfect as the guy who works for a huge office.He lets other men use his apartment for affairs. In hope of a promotion one of the men he lets use his apartment is one of the big wigs Played by Fred MacMurray{playing a creep this time} The woman "FRed" has an affair with is played by Shirley MacClaine, Jacks character really likes this woman. He ends up...
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