Additional information for The Apartment, which has a domestic theatrical release set for June 15,1960. The film is being distributed by United Artists and has not yet been rated. The Apartment has a total running time of 125 minutes.
Livre
Brazil
G
Japan
18
Netherlands
Approved
USA
16
Argentina
PG
Australia
PG
Canada
18
Chile
K-16
Finland
PG
Ireland
13
Spain
15
Sweden
PG
UK
16
West Germany
125min
Piso de soltero
Argentina
Piso de soltero
Mexico
Piso de soltero
Peru
Das Appartement
Austria
Das Appartement
West Germany
La garçonnière
Canada
La garçonnière
France
Apâto no kagi kashimasu
Japan
Apartamentul
Romania
Apartman
Serbia
Byt
Czechoslovakia
El apartamento
Spain
Garsoniera
Poland
Garsoniyer
Turkey
Ha'dira
Israel
Het apartement
Netherlands
I garsoniera
Greece
Kärleksnästet
Sweden
L'appartamento
Italy
Legénylakás
Hungary
Nøglen under måtten
Denmark
O Apartamento
Portugal
Poikamiesboksi
Finland
Se Meu Apartamento Falasse
Brazil
Ungkarlslyan
Sweden
Ungkarsleiligheten
Norway
June 15, 1960
USA
June 21, 1960
USA
July 20, 1960
UK
August , 1960
Italy
September 16, 1960
France
September 16, 1960
West Germany
October 08, 1960
Japan
October 28, 1960
Finland
December 02, 1960
Austria
December 09, 1960
Italy
December 26, 1960
Denmark
January 16, 1961
Sweden
February 23, 1961
Turkey
September 04, 1961
Norway
October 26, 1961
Hong Kong
December 19, 1962
Spain
December 23, 1962
Spain
October 04, 1963
Czechoslovakia
June 29, 2001
Denmark
August 13, 2003
Belgium
August 12, 2004
Netherlands
May 21, 2007
Greece
June 05, 2008
Greece
A Billy "Some Like It Hot" Wilder Production
Movie-wise, there has never been anything like "The Apartment" - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!
He lent his flat for love - of his job ! [UK]
Movie-wise, there has never been anything like THE APARTMENT laugh-wise or otherwise-wise!
Movie-wise, there has never been anything like it - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!
C. C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a lonely office drone for an insurance company in New York City. Four different company managers take turns commandeering Baxter's apartment, which is located on West 67th Street on the Upper West Side, for their various extramarital liaisons. Unhappy with the situation, but unwilling to challenge them directly, he juggles their conflicting demands while hoping to catch the eye of fetching elevator operator Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine). Meanwhile the neighbors in the apartment building assume Baxter is a "good time Charlie" who brings home a different drunken woman every night. Baxter accepts their criticism rather than reveal the truth.The four managers write glowing reports about Baxter a little too glowing, so personnel director Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) suspects something illicit behind the praise. Sheldrake lets Baxter's promotion go unchallenged on condition that he be allowed to use the apartment as well, starting that night. Sheldrake gives Baxter two tickets to The Music Man to ensure his absence. Delighted about his promotion, Baxter asks Kubelik to meet him at the theatre. She agrees and it is revealed to the audience that she is Sheldrake's girlfriend, intending to break off their affair that night but is instead charmed by Sheldrake to the apartment. Baxter is disappointed at being stood up, but is willing to forgive Kubelik.At an office party on Christmas Eve, Baxter discovers the relationship between Sheldrake and Kubelik, though he conceals this realization, while Kubelik learns from Sheldrake's secretary that she is merely the latest female employee to be his mistress, the secretary herself having filled that role several years earlier. At the apartment, Kubelik confronts Sheldrake with this information and while he maintains that he genuinely loves her, he leaves to return to his family. Meanwhile, a depressed Baxter picks up a woman in a local bar and, upon returning the apartment, is astounded to find Kubelik in his bed, fully clothed and overdosed on Baxter's sleeping pills.Baxter sends his bar pickup home and enlists the help of his neighbour, a physician, in reviving Kubelik without notifying the authorities. The doctor makes various assumptions about Kubelik and Baxter, which Baxter concedes without revealing Sheldrake's involvement. Baxter later telephones Sheldrake and informs him of the situation, and while Sheldrake professes gratitude for Baxter's quiet handling of the matter, he avoids any further involvement. Kubelik recuperates in Baxter's apartment under his care for two days, during which he tries to entertain and distract her from any possible suicidal afterthoughts, talking her into playing numerous hands of gin rummy, though she is largely uninterested.Baxter and Kubelik's absence from work is noted and commented on, with Baxter's former "customers" assuming that Baxter and Kubelik were having an affair. Kubelik's taxi-driver brother-in-law comes looking for her and two of the customers cheerfully direct him to Baxter's apartment, partly out of spite since he has been denying them access since his arrangement with Sheldrake. The brother-in-law also assumes the worst of Baxter and punches him several times.Sheldrake, angered at his secretary for sharing the truth with Kubelik, fires her. She retaliates by telling his wife about his infidelities, leading to the breakup of the marriage. Sheldrake moves into a room at his athletic club and continues to string Kubelik along while he enjoys his newfound bachelorhood. Baxter finally takes a stand when Sheldrake demands the apartment for another liaison with Kubelik on New Year's Eve, which results in Baxter quitting the firm. When Kubelik hears of this from Sheldrake, she realizes that Baxter is the man who truly loves her and abandons him, running to the apartment. Baxter, in the midst of packing to move out, is bewildered by her appearance and her insistence on resuming their earlier game of gin rummy. When he declares his love for her, her reply is the now-famous final line of the movie: "Shut up and deal."
Billy Wilder
Director(s)
Billy Wilder
I.A.L. Diamond
Writer(s)
I.A.L. Diamond
associate producer
Doane Harrison
associate producer
Billy Wilder
producer
Producer(s)
Adolph Deutsch
Composer(s)
C.C. Baxter
Jack Lemmon
Fran Kubelik
Shirley MacLaine
Jeff D. Sheldrake
Fred MacMurray
Joe Dobisch
Ray Walston
Dr. Dreyfuss
Jack Kruschen
Al Kirkeby
David Lewis
Mrs. Margie MacDougall
Hope Holiday
Sylvia
Joan Shawlee
Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss
Naomi Stevens
Karl Matuschka
Johnny Seven
The Blonde
Joyce Jameson
Mr. Vanderhoff
Willard Waterman
Mr. Eichelberger
David White
Miss Olsen
Edie Adams
Office Worker (uncredited)
Dorothy Abbott
TV Movie Host (uncredited)
Bill Baldwin
Charlie - Bartender (uncredited)
Benny Burt
Chinese Waiter (uncredited)
Fortune Cookie
(uncredited)
Mason Curry
Mrs. Lieberman (uncredited)
Frances Weintraub Lax
Messenger (uncredited)
David Macklin
Office Maintenance Man (uncredited)
Joe Palma
Patron in bar (uncredited)
Paul Picerni
Man in Santa Claus Suit (uncredited)
Hal Smith
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Director(s)
I.A.L. Diamond
Writer(s)
associate producer
Doane Harrison
associate producer
Billy Wilder
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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