L'appartamento

Titolo originale: The Apartment
Regia: Billy Wilder |
Anno: 1960
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Dramma Romance
Tag: new year's eve | new york city | lovesickness | clerk | winter | age difference | suicide attempt | office | flat | spaghetti | tennis racket | romcom | black and white | love affair | extramarital affair | quitting a job | christmas | apartment |
Cast: Jack Lemmon | Shirley MacLaine | Fred MacMurray | Ray Walston | Jack Kruschen | David Lewis | Hope Holiday | Joan Shawlee | Naomi Stevens | Johnny Seven | Joyce Jameson | Willard Waterman | David White | Edie Adams | Dorothy Abbott | Ralph Moratz | Joe Palma | Bill Baldwin | Benny Burt | Lynn Cartwright | Mason Curry | David Macklin | Hal Smith | Paul Bradley | Steve Carruthers | Dick Cherney | Franklyn Farnum | Herschel Graham | Lars Hensen | Eugene Jackson | Frances Weintraub Lax | William Meader | Monty O'Grady | Paul Power | Tony Regan | Clark Ross | Norman Stevans | Sid Troy |

Bud Baxter, un impiegato che scalpita in una grande compagnia di assicurazioni di New York, ha trovato un modo rapido per scalare i vertici aziendali: prestare il suo appartamento ai dirigenti come luogo dove incontrare le loro amanti. L'uomo ha quindi spesso a che fare con le conseguenze delle loro visite e una notte si ritrova un grosso problema da risolvere.

Errori

When Fran cries in front of the mantel, someone can be seen reflected in the TV screen sitting and w [...] D
When Kirkeby returns to the apartment to look for the galoshes left behind by Sylvia, he first looks [...] D
Fran buys a record album recorded by the small combo that performs in the Chinese restaurant she pat [...] D
Mrs. Lieberman is in a panic, telling Baxter that she smells gas coming from his apartment. It is he [...] D
After Bud finds out that Ms. Kubelik was with Mr. Sheldrake, he leaves wearing his new hat, leaving [...] D
At the end, as Baxter deals the cards, Fran drops one on the floor but ignores it. D
The frozen daiquiri in the cocktail lounge melts, reforms, and melts again. Also, the straw in it di [...] D
In the opening sequence, Jack Lemmon's character narrates that his name is C.C. Baxter, "'...C' for [...] D
Baxter's pajamas are inconsistent when he is first kicked out of his apartment. D
When Fran is in Jack Baxter's office during the Christmas party, she is wearing lipstick and and mas [...] D
Baxter finds a piece of spaghetti on the tennis racket he had used earlier in the picture to strain [...] D
When Miss Olsen picks up the extension after being fired, Sheldrake is heard completing dialing his [...] D
In the opening voice-over, Baxter states the date is November 1, 1959 which was a Sunday. Yet the im [...] D
After Kirkeby leaves, Baxter goes to the kitchen, lights his oven, removes a TV dinner from the refr [...] D
The movie is set in 1959, a year when Christmas Day (December 25th) landed on a Friday. Yet the offi [...] D
Baxter gives Fran coffee to drink. The coffee is freshly made and so it's boiling hot, but she drink [...] D
When telling the story of his attempted suicide, C. C. Baxter pantomimes loading a revolver, even th [...] D
C. C. Baxter suggests 5 feet 6.5 inches as the average height of a New Yorker, but given the large p [...] D
The shaving cream on Baxter's faces changes between the bathroom and bedroom. D
When Dr. Dreyfus calls to his wife that Baxter is at it again, then slams his apartment door shut, t [...] D
During the opening pan of the New York skyline with the United Nations Building in the foreground, t [...] D
Fran's hair keeps shifting and changing during the gin rummy game. D
(Widescreen version only) The shadow of a boom mic is visible in the upper left portion of the scree [...] D
After Baxter gets home for the first time, he cleans up by placing a large waste bucket of empty liq [...] D
The layout of Baxter's apartment makes no sense, especially in relation to Dr. Dreyfus's apartment. [...] D
At the end, Baxter and Fran sit down to play a game of gin rummy. This game is played with 10 cards [...] D