Posted on 06/25/2020 5:03:49 PM PDT by simpson96
The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond.
The story follows C.C. “Bud” Baxter (Lemmon), an insurance clerk who, in the hope of climbing the corporate ladder, lets more senior coworkers use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct extramarital affairs. Bud is attracted to the elevator operator, Fran Kubelik (MacLaine), who in turn is having an affair with Bud's immediate boss, Sheldrake (MacMurray).
At the 33rd Academy Awards, The Apartment was nominated for ten awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
"The Apartment" (1960) - the ending scene
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Was he ever a jerk in The Caine Mutiny, he deserved what he got at the afterparty. Greenwald should have just decked him instead of just throwing the drink in his face.
-—Was he ever a jerk in The Caine Mutiny, he deserved what he got at the afterparty. Greenwald should have just decked him instead of just throwing the drink in his face.-—
Arguably the best scene in the movie. Very re-watchable film.
Jose Ferrer IMHO was the best actor in the film, and that’s saying something considering the Cast.
-—Jose Ferrer IMHO was the best actor in the film, and that’s saying something considering the Cast.——
It’s easy to say Bogart was often typecast as a certain type of character, But Queeg is really an amazing performance, and something different for him.
Everyone in it is great. How about E.G. Marshall? Amazing.
Even cameos from Lee Marvin and “Harry Bailey”!
Incredible movie.
Oh everybody was great, and yes, it was one of Bogie’s best roles.
Just that look Greenwald gives Queeg when Queeg loses it, you could see right there he hated himself for doing that to him, as necessary as it may have been.
-—Just that look Greenwald gives Queeg when Queeg loses it, you could see right there he hated himself for doing that to him, as necessary as it may have been.——
“I took your case, Steve, because I thought the wrong man was on trial.”
Awesome.
(And on the topic, I think “The Apartment” is amazing and still somehow underrated.)
MacMurray was great in “Murder, He Says”!
-—MacMurray was great in “Murder, He Says”!-—
He’s great in everything! lol
Fred had a reputation for being really frugal (cheap!) with his money, but if you were friends with him and you needed help, he’d give you the shirt off his back. He was friends with Bob Hope, and Hope always said that about him.
Yet it was his last film. Reportedly he had a hard time with the rapid-fire script that Wilder gave him to work with. He felt he didn’t have it in him anymore after this experience so he retired.
—Yet it was his last film.-—
Yeah. Though he sort of came out of retirement to appear in Ragtime (1981). That’s the answer to a good trivia question (What was Cagney’s last big-screen appearance?)
The Absentminded Professor
“Yet it was his last film.”
His last film was Ragtime (1981). He was great in it as a corrupt police commissioner.
Shirley MacLaine made a hillarious cameo appearence in “Defending Your Life”
Mancini and Mercer, I believe.
Also, he couldn’t stand working with Horst Bucholtz, which actually worked out better in the scenes with the two of them.
A friend of my mother's inspired Sandy Dennis's character's famous "Oh, my God" that she uses throughout the movie.
I watched it a few years ago, probably after it was recommended on FR. I didn’t like it at all; found it quite depressing.
To each his own.
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