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Rating: 8.2/10 by 2283 users

The Apartment (1960)

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

Directing:
  • Billy Wilder
  • Hal W. Polaire
  • David Salven
  • May Wale Brown
Writing:
  • Billy Wilder
  • I. A. L. Diamond
Stars:
Release Date: Tue, Jun 21, 1960

Rating: 8.2/10 by 2283 users

Alternative Title:
A legénylakás - HU
아파트 열쇠를 빌려드립니다 - KR
Garsoniyer - TR
El apartamento - ES

Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 02 hour 05 minutes
Budget: $3,000,000
Revenue: $25,000,000

Plot Keyword: new year's eve, new york city, lovesickness, clerk, winter, age difference, suicide attempt, office, flat, spaghetti, tennis racket, romantic comedy, black and white, extramarital affair, christmas
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Jack Lemmon
C.C. Baxter
Fred MacMurray
Jeff D. Sheldrake
Ray Walston
Joe Dobisch
Jack Kruschen
Dr. Dreyfuss
David Lewis
Al Kirkeby
Hope Holiday
Mrs. Margie MacDougall
Naomi Stevens
Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss
Johnny Seven
Karl Matuschka
Willard Waterman
Mr. Vanderhoff
David White
Mr. Eichelberger
Edie Adams
Miss Olsen
Dorothy Abbott
Office Worker (uncredited)
Ralph Moratz
Office Worker (uncredited)
Joe Palma
Office Maintenance Man (uncredited)
Bill Baldwin
TV Movie Host (uncredited)
Benny Burt
Charlie - Bartender (uncredited)
Lynn Cartwright
Elevator Supervisor with Clicker (uncredited)
Mason Curry
Bit Part (uncredited)
David Macklin
Messenger (uncredited)
Hal Smith
Man in Santa Claus Suit (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
Office Worker (uncredited)
Steve Carruthers
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Dick Cherney
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Office Worker (uncredited)
Herschel Graham
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Lars Hensen
Office Worker (uncredited)
Eugene Jackson
Office Worker (uncredited)
Frances Weintraub Lax
Mrs. Lieberman (uncredited)
William Meader
Executive (uncredited)
Monty O'Grady
Office Worker (uncredited)
Paul Power
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Tony Regan
Executive (uncredited)
Clark Ross
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Norman Stevans
Office Worker (uncredited)
Sid Troy
Williams (uncredited)

Andres Gomez

A tiypical Billy Wilder comedy. Fun and with great script and performance from Jack Lemmon. A must to see.

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Essential viewing once a year for soul maintenance

Filipe Manuel Neto

**It's a good movie, but Best Picture at the Oscars? Frankly…** I really enjoyed this film, largely thanks to the lightness of its story, and the funny way in which the film plays with the situation in which the protagonist finds himself intertwined. The film was, in fact, the big winner of the Oscars in its year, with ten nominations and five statuettes (Best Editing, Best Art Direction in Black and White, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and, the icing on the cake, Best movie). However, if we observe that that year were also nominated for much more memorable films such as “Spartacus” or “Psycho”, it is questionable whether this film really deserved to be considered the best film of the year. The script is based on the difficulties experienced by a simple office worker of a large insurance company from the moment he begins to lend his own apartment to several superiors in the firm, so that they can take their mistresses and girlfriends there. With the situation, he gains a bad reputation among the neighbors and with the landlady, in addition to not being able to go to his own house when he wants and thinks he should, being always limited by the arrangements that he is, from a certain moment, coerced into keeping. , as you progress in the firm thanks to the exchange of favors. Of course, there's going to be a very complicated romance midway through the story, and everything will end well, as it does in these comedies. The cast is half the recipe for this success. Jack Lemmon gives us a very good performance, perhaps the best of his career as an actor, along with his enormous acting exercise in “Some Like it Hot”. Fred McMurray was also very good in this film, giving us with commitment and great charisma an unpalatable character (a married man, very important in the company, who betrays his wife and will take advantage of the ambition of a minor employee). Without disapproval for the good performance of Sirley MacLaine, who gave life to a fragile young woman who is the main love interest of the protagonist, the film is not especially sympathetic to any element of the female cast. The film has a very pleasant pace and time passes without us noticing it, if we give the story a chance to get involved. I think the good editing and the fact that the film doesn't stop at dead moments helped a lot at that point. Good sets and costumes, especially the office set, with all the details we can imagine, make for a film that is good, although I can consider that there are far superior films.


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