The Apartment (Blu-ray)
Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!
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The Apartment (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: December 26, 2017
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: Arrow Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray & Shirley MacLaine | |
Performer: | Naomi Stevens, Hope Holiday, Ray Walston, Joyce Jameson, Edie Adams, David Lewis, Jack Kruschen & Joan Shawlee | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Daniel Mandell | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond | |
Composition by | Adolph Deutsch | |
Produced by | Billy Wilder |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (b&w): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Director: Billy Wilder
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Original Screenplay: Billy Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Savoury Shirley' Maclaine and savoury Jack Lemmon save the day, two sad comedians who never spell Pathos with a capital and make a good pair, credible and touching, pleasing rather than glamorous,
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The Spectator
...Fresh....[MacLaine's performance] breaks through Lemmon's brittle good cheer... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
...This seductive, bittersweet 1960 classic was Billy Wilder's last great film....Its layers of satire and genuine tenderness resonate... -- 5 out of 5 stars
Total Film
Rating: 4.5/5 --
A black-hearted satire this smart, cutting, and hilarious is good even if it can't quite find a way out of its nihilism.
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Alternate Ending
It somehow manages to be both sardonic and warmhearted while observantly focusing on the romance...
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Maclean's Magazine
If it weren't for Lemmon's so affable execution of Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond's script, The Apartment could have been oppressively dark and cynical.
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Under the Radar
5 stars out of 5 -- Lemmon gives on of his best performances ever, in a part written specifically for him...
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Product Description:
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.