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    Apartment, The (1960)

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    Winner of five Academy Awards in 1960 including Best Film, The Apartment is legendary writer/director Billy Wilder at his scathing, satirical best.

    Insurance Clerk C. C. ‘Bud’ Baxter (Jack Lemmon) has found the ideal way to gain the attention and approval of his bosses is to allow them to use his apartment as a perfect hideaway for their extramarital trysts.

    apartment_002The ambitious young employee subsequently reaps a series of undeserved promotions, but when he lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), he not only advances his career but his own love life as well.

    For Sheldrake’s mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), elevator girl and angel of Bud’s dreams. Convinced that he is the only man for Fran, Bud must make the most important executive decision of his career – lose the girl or his job.

    A controversial comedy when it was made, The Apartment is also brightly funny and deliciously cynical. Partly because it relies on a suicide attempt to make its point about how human beings should be treated, it’s also poignant.

    Quite probably the template for all modern Hollywood romantic comedies.

    CC “Bud” Baxter
    Jack Lemmon
    Fran Kubelik
    Shirley MacLaine
    JD Sheldrake
    Fred MacMurray
    Mr Dobisch
    Ray Walston
    Mr Kirkeby
    David Lewis
    Dr Dreyfuss
    Jack Kruschen
    Sylvia
    Joan Shawlee
    Miss Olsen
    Edie Adams
    Margie MacDougall
    Hope Holiday
    Karl Matuschka
    Johnny Seven
    Mrs Dreyfuss
    Naomi Stevens
    Mrs Lieberman
    Frances Weintraub Lax
    Blonde
    Joyce Jameson
    Mr Vanderhof
    Willard Waterman
    Mr Eichelberger
    David White
    Bartender
    Benny Burt
    Santa Claus
    Hal Smith

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    Billy Wilder

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