Dir: Billy Wilder
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
126 mins · 1960 · USA · Cert 12A · English
A snappy, stylish Christmas classic, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine star in Billy Wilder’s tale of loneliness and love.
Jack Lemmon is lonely office bottom-runger C.C. Baxter, who goes after promotion by allowing his seniors the use of his apartment for their extramarital liaisons. Meanwhile, he hopes to catch the eye of the sassy elevator girl, Fran Kubelik (Shirley Maclaine).
Funny, heartbreaking and with a searingly sharp social commentary, The Apartment glows with towering performances from its two leads.
