A tiypical Billy Wilder comedy. Fun and with great script and performance from Jack Lemmon. A must to see.
“Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!”
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Production
- The Mirisch Company
- Budget
- $3M
- Box Office
- $25M
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Cast
Jack LemmonC.C. Baxter
Shirley MacLaineFran Kubelik
Fred MacMurrayJeff D. Sheldrake
Ray WalstonJoe Dobisch
Jack KruschenDr. Dreyfuss
David LewisAl KirkebyHope HolidayMargie MacDougall
Joan ShawleeSylvia
Naomi StevensMrs. Mildred Dreyfuss
Johnny SevenKarl Matuschka
Joyce JamesonThe Blonde
Willard WatermanMr. VanderhoffMedia
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**It's a good movie, but Best Picture at the Oscars? Frankly…** I really enjoyed this film, largely thanks to the lightness of its story, and the funny way in which the film plays with the situation in which the protagonist finds himself intertwined. The film was, in fact, the big winner of the Oscars in its year, with ten nominations and five statuettes (Best Editing, Best Art Direction in Black and White, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and, the icing on the cake, Best movie). However, if we observe that that year were also nominated for much more memorable films such as…
"Baxter" (Jack Lemmon) has hit on an unique way to work his way up the greasy pole. He sublets his apartment, by the evening, to his bosses at work so they can entertain their lady friends - all in the hope that promotion from his $90-a-week job will result. This policy frequently ends up with him standing around in the cold whilst they polish off all his liquor. Promises, and more promises - will he every get that better job? His only bright spot in the day is the mysterious but jolly lift operator "Fran" (Shirley MacLaine) but it turns out that she is involved with another big-noise…
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Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to …
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