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  2. Jul 22, 2001 · When Billy Wilder made “The Apartment” in 1960, “the organization man” was still a current term. One of the opening shots in the movie shows Baxter as one of a vast horde of wage slaves, working in a room where the desks line up in parallel rows almost to the vanishing point.

  3. Insurance worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his Upper West Side apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) begins using ...

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  4. Jun 15, 2017 · Using the facade of a romantic comedy-melodrama for The Apartment, producer-director Billy Wilder delivers a blistering commentary on contemporary ant-hill society and its amoral inhabitants. The...

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  5. "The Apartment" is one of the most delightful movies of Hollywood ever and fairly ranked # 95 in IMDb. In my opinion, Billy Wilder is the best director Hollywood has ever had, and this dramatic comedy is one of his many masterpieces.

  6. Billy Wilder's The Apartment is a sometimes amusing but basically unpalatable mixture of farce, social satire, and romantic comedy. Full Review | Aug 17, 2022

  7. Billy Wilder has furnished “The Apartment” with a one-hook plot that comes out high in comedy, wide in warmth and long in running time. As with his smash hit, “Some Like It Hot,” the broad ...

  8. In THE APARTMENT, meek C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a lowly statistician for an insurance company in a giant Manhattan office building with a workforce bigger than some whole towns. C.C. ingratiates himself with his superiors because he happens to be a bachelor living in an apartment with no roommates.

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