"The Apartment" (1960) - the ending scene (Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon)

Youtube ^ | 12/31/2015 | Paul Thompson

[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

[TBP]

Fred MacMurray showed his comedic chops in The Absent-Minded Professor and TheShaggy Dog and his many talents in The Happiest Millionaire.

[Publius]

It’s a very intense emotional trip.

[P.O.E.]

“Murder, He Says”

Honors flysis
Incombeesus
Onchest nobbus
Innob keesis

[Gay State Conservative]

Yes,she was *outstanding*! The Apartment and Downton Abbey are the only two things I've ever seen her in and she was excellent in both.Too bad she's just another showbiz whackjob during her free time.

[Gay State Conservative]

I think of it as being a “dark comedy”.Depending on your frame of mind it can be seen as depressing but you must admit that it had a good...perhaps even happy...ending.And yes,Fred MacMurray’s character was a rather odious man but he *did* get a huge dose of karma at the end.