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The Apartment (1960)

Name: The Apartment
Director: Billy Wilder
Genre: drama film, Christmas film, romantic comedy film
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 8.3

The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon stars as an insurance clerk who, in hopes of climbing the corporate ladder, allows his superiors to use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct their extramarital affairs. He becomes attracted to an elevator operator in his office building, unaware that she is…

Directed by Billy Wilder · Shot by Joseph LaShelle · Cut by Daniel Mandell · Music by Adolph Deutsch · Ratio 2.35:1 · 125 min

Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine — Serious Feather · 26 min
THE APARTMENT (1960): Screenwriting Masterclass — Script Sleuth · 20 min
The Apartment and How to Write Movies Good — Eyebrow Cinema · 26 min
'The Apartment' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times — The New York Times · 4 min
Magic Time | The Art of Jack Lemmon - The Apartment (1960) — FilmArchive · 13 min
Inside The Apartment (1960) — FilmArchive · 30 min
Select-scene Commentary - The Apartment (1960) — FilmArchive · 9 min
The Key to The Apartment - The Apartment (1960) — FilmArchive · 10 min

Elsewhere

More by Billy Wilder

Mauvaise Graine — 1934
The Major and the Minor — 1942
Five Graves to Cairo — 1943
Double Indemnity — 1944
Death Mills — 1945
The Lost Weekend — 1945
A Foreign Affair — 1948
The Emperor Waltz — 1948
Sunset Boulevard — 1950
Ace in the Hole — 1951
Stalag 17 — 1953
Sabrina — 1954
The Seven Year Itch — 1955
Witness for the Prosecution — 1957
The Spirit of St. Louis — 1957
Love in the Afternoon — 1957
Some Like It Hot — 1959
One, Two, Three — 1961
Irma la Douce — 1963
Kiss Me, Stupid — 1964
The Fortune Cookie — 1966
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes — 1970
Avanti! — 1972
The Front Page — 1974
Fedora — 1978
Buddy Buddy — 1981

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