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...Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot) scores again in this rousingly funny, pointed tale of a junior executive (Jack Lemmon) who permits his licentious bosses to use his Manhattan pad like a midtown motel. With Shirley MacLaine...
...Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder tells of a sweet-natured schnook (brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon) who shoots up the corporate ladder by turning his apartment into a glad pad for his bosses and their girls, in an excellent movie that mixes comedy, pathos and a tough sense of irony about life. With Shirley MacLaine as fetching as ever...
...latest Atlas ICBM to rise from Cape Canaveral flew, to the naked eye, like many a previous successful Atlas. But it was very different. For the first time no umbilical cord of guiding radio signals connected it with the ground. As soon as it left the pad, it was on its own, depending on the guidance of its built-in brain and senses. The test was a first-try marvel: the Atlas hit within two miles of a target 5,000 miles down range...
...even soap opera, when the heroine tries suicide for love of a married man. It has moments of sharp, watercooler burlesque as it glances at an office Christmas party. But beyond that, unfolding the story of a nice little guy whose bosse's use his apartment as launching pad for some fairly sordid affairs, the picture takes on a hard, unwinking look of irony. Again and again, Wilder seems to speak in the accents of one of his favorite cities, prewar Berlin, a tough, sardonic, sometimes wryly sentimental place whose intellectual symbol was Bertolt Brecht. Is Billy trying...
...Apartment. Writer-Director Billy Wilder tells of a sweet-natured schnook (brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon) who shoots up the corporate ladder by turning his apartment into a glad pad for his bosses and their girls, in an excellent movie that mixes comedy, pathos and a tough sense of irony about life. With Shirley MacLaine as fetching as ever, and Fred MacMurray as toothy...