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The Apartment
Billy Wilder
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Film 1960
The Apartment
borrowed-apartment lonelinessoffice bittersweetNew York Christmas ache
This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.
Synopsis
The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon stars as an insurance clerk who, in hopes of climbing the corporate ladder, allows his superiors to use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct their extramari...
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Editorial note
Carries the urban isolation register across into music without losing its pitch.
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Why this work is here
The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. Jack Lemmon stars as an insurance clerk who, in hopes of climbing the corporate ladder, allows his superiors to use his Upper West Side apartment to conduct their extramari...
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Carries the urban isolation register across into music without losing its pitch.
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