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The Apartment (1960)

Not Rated | | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 16 September 1960 (France)
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

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Storyline

As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment. What Baxter is unaware of is that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik, an elevator girl in the ... Written by Huggo

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Movie-wise, there has never been anything like "The Apartment" - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise! See more »

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Comedy | Drama | Romance

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16 September 1960 (France)  »

Also Known As:

Das Appartement  »

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Box Office

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$18,600,000

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$25,000,000, 31 January 1970
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(Westrex Recording System)

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2.35 : 1
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Trivia

The tag line for Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) was "She knew she was being used for something evil." Billy Wilder made a play on that line to promote his film: "Suddenly, last winter - he knew his apartment was being used for something evil." See more »

Goofs

Baxter finds a piece of spaghetti on the tennis racket he had used earlier in the picture to strain a pot of pasta. While thinking he twirls the noodle around his finger. Pasta left out like that would have stiffened up. And he never would have been able to spin it. See more »

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[first lines]
C.C. Baxter: [narrating] On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this because I work for an insurance company - Consolidated Life of New York. We're one of the top five companies in the country. Our home office has 31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population ...
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Referenced in Spin City: The Apartment (1996) See more »

Soundtracks

Magdalena
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Composed by Ary Macedo and Ayrton AmorĂ­n
Music played on the record player in the living room
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Likewise, it's a love-fest Lemmon-wise
28 June 2001 | by See all my reviews

One of the finest examples of smart, satiric comedy-drama ever created for the screen. Jack Lemmon (in amazing comic form) plays a working stiff in Corporate America--via New York City--whose bachelor apartment inadvertently becomes a love-nest for amorous, married executives. The film is extremely modern for 1960 and features a non-stop barrage of funny, clever talk. Lemmon is a mad genius at frenzied (yet sympathetic) characterization, and "The Apartment" catches him at his professional peak in the movies. Working alongside huggable neurotic Shirley MacLaine (also at her peak) and shady Fred MacMurray (parlaying his slimeball role with curt persuasion), Lemmon creates a new kind of acting: screwball realism. **** from ****


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