The Apartment

El Apartamento

English audio · Filmoteca

Calvin Clifford or "C.C.", a.k.a. "Buddy Boy", Baxter is a lonely office worker at Consolidated Insurance Company in New York City. To climb the corporate ladder, he allows four company managers to take turns borrowing his Upper West Side apartment for their extramarital affairs. Baxter meticulously juggles the "booking" schedule; the steady stream of women convinces his neighbors that he is a playboy.

Director

Billy Wilder

Starring

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, David Lewis, Edie Adams, Jack Kruschen, Joan Shawlee

Why we call it English: US production, English-language (Wilder)