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The apartment
Title
The apartment [videorecording]
Published
Culver City, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Beverly Hills, CA : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2007.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1960.
Special features: Original theatrical trailer (2 min.).
Director of photography, Joseph LaShelle ; music by Adolph Deutsch ; art director, Alexander Trauner ; film editor, Daniel Mandell.
In English, dubbed French or Spanish, with optional subtitles in French or Spanish; closed-captioned.
Winner, 1961 Academy Awards for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black-and-White: Alexandre Trauner, Edward G. Boyle; Best Film Editing: Daniel Mandell; Best Writing, Story and Screenplay-Written Directly for the Screen: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond; Best Director: Billy Wilder; Best Picture: Billy Wilder.
Summary
How far will a man go to climb the corporate ladder? C.C. 'Bud' Baxter, a lowly insurance clerk, has a trump card: his apartment. He "loans" it out to married company executives for secret trysts. In return, he's well looked after, although he does grapple with his conscience. One day he asks out one of the elevator girls, Miss Kubelik, but she stands him up because of a crisis in her relationship with the big boss, Mr. Sheldrake. On Christmas Eve, Miss Kubelik realizes she is only the most recent in a long line of girls, with possibly disastrous consequences. Bud intervenes, which may give each of them a chance to be more than another faceless employee in a heartless corporation.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English; French; Spanish
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2010
Series
Credits
Director of photography, Joseph LaShelle ; music by Adolph Deutsch ; art director, Alexander Trauner ; film editor, Daniel Mandell.
Cast
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens, Johnny Seven, Joyce Jameson, Willard Waterman, David White, Edie Adams.
System details note
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital mono; wide screen, aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Audience
MPAA Rating: Not rated; Canadian Home Video rating: 14A.
Contents
Title/The fast life
Last call
Five colds a year
Sheldrake's big plans
Promises to Fran
One for all
Egg foo yong on the face
Bought and paid for
"Live now, pay later"
Caring by Sheldrake
History of bad men
Call that never was
Getting took
Dinner for 2 minus 1
Perfect, solutionwise
Crumbled, cookiewise.
Videorecording number
1002028 Twentieth Century Fox
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Romantic comedy films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
United Artists Corporation.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Mirisch Company.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
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