A 1960 classic. These are undoubtedly the best. Billy Wilder's classic was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won five. A bachelor C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) who works as a clerk in a big insurance company starts lending out his apartment for his bosses who want a quiet one hour rendezvous with their lady friends.
In return they promise him good recommendations and quick promotions. As he quickly rises up the organization, from the 19th floor to the 27th floor literally, he bumps into the boss of personnel who scrutinizes his fast rise. He however knows the truth and blackmails our bachelor to part with the key for his use as well. Unfortunately his lady love is the elevator girl (Shirley Maclaine) that our bachelor fancies. As the bachelor boy tries to shield her, himself and his career, he is depressed, and in a drunken binge picks up some woman in a bar. When he reaches home he finds the elevator girl in his bed with an overdose of sleeping pills inside her. How he saves her, gets his perspective right and how it all ends well is what the apartment is all about. Superb story telling, lovely acting! Jack Lemmon, Frank macMurphy and Shirley MacLaine are perfect in a story that could well be true today. A classic and worth watching more than once.
In return they promise him good recommendations and quick promotions. As he quickly rises up the organization, from the 19th floor to the 27th floor literally, he bumps into the boss of personnel who scrutinizes his fast rise. He however knows the truth and blackmails our bachelor to part with the key for his use as well. Unfortunately his lady love is the elevator girl (Shirley Maclaine) that our bachelor fancies. As the bachelor boy tries to shield her, himself and his career, he is depressed, and in a drunken binge picks up some woman in a bar. When he reaches home he finds the elevator girl in his bed with an overdose of sleeping pills inside her. How he saves her, gets his perspective right and how it all ends well is what the apartment is all about. Superb story telling, lovely acting! Jack Lemmon, Frank macMurphy and Shirley MacLaine are perfect in a story that could well be true today. A classic and worth watching more than once.
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