The Apartment (1960)








Comedy about a young, stuck-in-the-groove executive (Jack Lemmon) who advances his prospects of promotion by letting out his apartment to fellow executives and their girl friends. Only when the young woman he loves falls victim, he realizes the absurdity of his behavior.


Film programs

Progress Filmillustrierte/Filmprogramm nr. 94/63
Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 5430

Books with substantial mentioning of The Apartment

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Alfred Holighaus (ed.)
Der Filmkanon, 35 Filme, die Sie kennen müssen
Bonn; Berlin, 2005

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Nora Henry
Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder
Wetport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Joe Baltake
The films of Jack Lemmon
Secaucus, NJ, 1977

Books with an entry on The Apartment

Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross
The Motion Picture Guide, Volume I A-B 1927-1983
Chicago, 1985

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Apartment

Rob Fraser, Your 10 Best '60s Movies, in: Empire, nr. 199 (January), 2006 pp. 150-151

Helen O'Hara, The apartment, in: Empire, nr. 279 (September), 2012 pp. 142-143



Year: 1960
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0053604