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The apartment

Call Number

  • BLU-RAY COMEDY (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray version ; Special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens, Hope Holiday, Edie Adams.

Publication Information

[London] : Arrow Academy, [2018]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (120 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

C.C. ''Bud'' Baxter is a lowly Manhattan office drone with a lucrative sideline in renting out his apartment to adulterous company bosses and their mistresses. When Bud enters into a similar arrangement the firm's personnel director, J.D. Sheldrake, his career prospects begin to look up--and up. But when he discovers that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik, the girl of his dreams, he finds himself forced to choose between his career and the woman he loves...

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.

Special features: Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative produced by Arrow Films exclusive for this release ; original uncompressed PCM mono audio ; optional 5.1 remix in lossless DTS-HD Master Audio ; audio commentary with film producer and historian Bruce Block ; The key to The Apartment, a new appreciation of the film and by film historian Philip Kemp ; select scene commentary by Philip Kemp ; The flawed couple, a new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon ; A letter to Castro, a new interview with actress Hope Holiday ; The writer speaks: Billy Wilder, an archival interview from the Writers Guild of America's Oral Histories series ; Inside the Apartment, a half-hour "making-of" featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and others ; Magic time: the art of Jack Lemmon, an archive profile of the actor from 2007 ; theatrical trailer.

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