The Apartment

About The Apartment

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.

Billy Wilder's The Apartment is a 1960 comedy romance film. Jack Lemmon appears as C.C. Baxter, Shirley MacLaine as Fran Kubelik, Fred MacMurray as Jeff D. Sheldrake, and Ray Walston as Joe Dobisch.

Released in June 1960, it runs 126 minutes. Written by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. It was produced by The Mirisch Company.

Shelv files it under cheerful, winter, extramarital affair, and suicide attempt. It streams on Philo and YouTube TV in the United States. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 2,838 TMDB voters.

American Beauty, Carol, and Sleepless in Seattle make useful companions to The Apartment, all filed under age difference and love affair.