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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 conscienc...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Apartment (Motion picture : 1960)
Other Authors: Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002 (Screenwriter), Diamond, I. A. L. (Screenwriter), Lemmon, Jack (Actor), MacLaine, Shirley, 1934- (Actor), MacMurray, Fred, 1908-1991 (Actor), Walston, Ray, 1917-2001 (Actor), Kruschen, Jack, 1922-2002 (Actor), Lewis, David, 1916-2000 (Actor), Holiday, Hope (Actor), Shawlee, Joan (Actor), Stevens, Naomi (Actor), Seven, Johnny, 1926-2010 (Actor), Jameson, Joyce, 1932-1987 (Actor), Waterman, Willard (Actor), White, David, 1916-1990 (Actor), Adams, Edie, 1927-2008 (Actor), Deutsch, Adolph, 1897-1980 (composer (expression))
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: [United States] : Mirisch Company, Inc., [1960]
Subjects:
Love > Drama.
Clerks > Drama.
Loneliness > Drama.
Adultery > Drama.
Apartments > Drama.
Women > Conduct of life > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Insurance companies > Employees > Drama.
New York (N.Y.) > Drama.
Adultery.
Apartments.
Clerks.
Insurance companies > Employees.
Loneliness.
Love.
Man-woman relationships.
Women > Conduct of life.
New York (State) > New York.
Webcast
Feature films > United States.
Romance films.
Comedy films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Internet videos.
Films comiques.
Films d'amour.
Films de fiction.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus)
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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.
Item Description:Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (125 min.)) : sound, black and white
Audience:MPAA Rating: Not rated.
Awards:Academy Awards, 1961: Best art direction, best director, best editing, best picture, best screenplay.
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.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Joseph LaShelle ; music by Adolph Deutsch ; art director, Alexander Trauner ; film editor, Daniel Mandell.