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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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How far will a man go to climb the corporate ladder? C.C. 'Bud' Baxter, a lowly insurance clerk, has a trump card: his apartment. He "loans" it out to married company executives for secret trysts. In return, he's well looked after, although he does grapple with his conscience. One day he asks out one of the elevator girls, Miss Kubelik, but she stands him up because of a crisis in her relationship with the big boss, Mr. Sheldrake. On Christmas Eve, Miss Kubelik realizes she is only the most recent in a long line of girls, with possibly disastrous consequences. Bud intervenes, which may give each of them a chance to be more than another faceless employee in a heartless corporation
Originally released as a motion picture in 1960
Special features: The key to The Apartment; select scene commentary by Philip Kemp; The flawed couple, a new video essay by David Cairns; A letter to Castro; The writer speaks: Billy Wilder; Inside The Apartment; Magic time: The art of Jack Lemmon; theatrical trailer
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen
Rating: Not rated
Blu-ray, region A, wide screen (2.35:1); Dolby digital 1.0 mono; 1080p high definition; requires Blu-ray player
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)