Writer-director Billy Wilder’s favorite and perhaps best movie takes the leap to 4K, revealing even more beauty in the images of Joseph Lashelle and the designs of Alexandre Trauner . . . we all feel like we’ve lived in C.C. Baxter’s New York flat. Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s ‘dirty fairy tale’ best expresses the difficulty of keeping both a job and one’s self-respect — fitting in a love life seems altogether too much to ask. It all comes down to Shirley MacLaine’s sweet smile and Jack Lemmon’s eagerness to be a ‘mensch’ — when he’s discovering that a moral compromise is like selling one’s soul.
The Apartment 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1960 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 125 min. / Street Date March 15, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 39.95
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens,...
The Apartment 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1960 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 125 min. / Street Date March 15, 2022 / available through Kino Lorber / 39.95
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens,...
- 4/2/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Savant’s vote for the best romantic comedy ever goes to a sordid fable about problems in the big city Rat Race: keeping both a job and one’s self-respect. Picking up where 1930s pre-Code movies left off, Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s ‘how to succeed’ thesis divides people into two groups, Takers and those that Get Took. And yet the message it delivers is life & love- affirming.
The Apartment
Blu-ray
Arrow Video USA
1960 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 125 min. / Limited Edition / Street Date December 12 (29?) (?), 2017 / Available from Arrow Video
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens, Edie Adams, Johnny Seven, Joyce Jameson, Willard Waterman, David White.
Cinematography: Joseph Lashelle
Film Editor: Daniel Mandell
Original Music: Adolph Deutsch
Written by I.A.L. Diamond and Billy Wilder
Produced and Directed by Billy Wilder
… and it’s also the all-time champion New Years’ movie.
The Apartment
Blu-ray
Arrow Video USA
1960 / B&W / 2:35 widescreen / 125 min. / Limited Edition / Street Date December 12 (29?) (?), 2017 / Available from Arrow Video
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens, Edie Adams, Johnny Seven, Joyce Jameson, Willard Waterman, David White.
Cinematography: Joseph Lashelle
Film Editor: Daniel Mandell
Original Music: Adolph Deutsch
Written by I.A.L. Diamond and Billy Wilder
Produced and Directed by Billy Wilder
… and it’s also the all-time champion New Years’ movie.
- 12/30/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (photo: Madeleine Carroll and Jeanne Crain in ‘The Fan’) (See also: "Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.") Unlike her characters in Margie, Home in Indiana, State Fair, Centennial Summer, The Fan, and Cheaper by the Dozen (and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes), or even in the more complex A Letter to Three Wives and People Will Talk, Jeanne Crain didn’t find a romantic Happy Ending in real life. In the mid-’50s, Crain accused her husband, former minor actor Paul Brooks aka Paul Brinkman, of infidelity, of living off her earnings, and of brutally beating her. The couple reportedly were never divorced because of their Catholic faith. (And at least in the ’60s, unlike the humanistic, progressive-thinking Margie, Crain was a “conservative” Republican who supported Richard Nixon.) In the early ’90s, she lost two of her...
- 8/26/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Network: NBC
Episodes: 198 (60-90 minutes)
Seasons: Eight
TV show dates: September 14, 1967 -- January 16, 1975
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Barbara Anderson, Elizabeth Baur, Gene Lyons, and Johnny Seven.
TV show description:
After 20 years of police service, San Francisco Police Department (Sfpd) Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) was forced to retire because a sniper's bullet paralyzed him from the waist down, confining him to a wheelchair.
He later gets himself appointed (in a clever way) a "special department consultant" by his good friend, Police Commissioner Dennis Randall (Gene Lyons).
He requests that Detective Sargent Ed Brown (Don Galloway) and young socialite-turned-plainclothes officer Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson) be assigned to him.
Ironside also recruits angst-filled African-American ex-con Mark...
Episodes: 198 (60-90 minutes)
Seasons: Eight
TV show dates: September 14, 1967 -- January 16, 1975
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Barbara Anderson, Elizabeth Baur, Gene Lyons, and Johnny Seven.
TV show description:
After 20 years of police service, San Francisco Police Department (Sfpd) Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) was forced to retire because a sniper's bullet paralyzed him from the waist down, confining him to a wheelchair.
He later gets himself appointed (in a clever way) a "special department consultant" by his good friend, Police Commissioner Dennis Randall (Gene Lyons).
He requests that Detective Sargent Ed Brown (Don Galloway) and young socialite-turned-plainclothes officer Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson) be assigned to him.
Ironside also recruits angst-filled African-American ex-con Mark...
- 2/5/2013
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Character actor Johnny Seven has died after losing his battle with lung cancer.
Seven - real name John Anthony Fetto II - died of complications from the disease at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, California on Friday. He was 83.
He began his career performing in New York plays, and later co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in 1964's Navajo Run.
Seven also landed big-screen roles in The Last Mile with Mickey Rooney as well as 1960's Guns of the Timberland, before racking up a number of TV credits with bit parts in shows such as Chips, Bonanza, Charlie's Angels, Batman and Gunsmoke.
He is survived by Edith, his wife of 60 years, his son John Anthony Fetto III and a grandson, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Seven - real name John Anthony Fetto II - died of complications from the disease at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, California on Friday. He was 83.
He began his career performing in New York plays, and later co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in 1964's Navajo Run.
Seven also landed big-screen roles in The Last Mile with Mickey Rooney as well as 1960's Guns of the Timberland, before racking up a number of TV credits with bit parts in shows such as Chips, Bonanza, Charlie's Angels, Batman and Gunsmoke.
He is survived by Edith, his wife of 60 years, his son John Anthony Fetto III and a grandson, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
- 1/28/2010
- WENN
Johnny Seven, who appeared in 26 films and 600 television shows during a prolific four-decade career, died Jan. 22 of complications from lung cancer at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, Calif. He was 83.
Seven portrayed Lt. Carl Reese on 30 episodes of NBC's 1968-75 "Ironside" series and played Shirley MacLaine's brother, Karl Matuschka, in Billy Wilder's 1960 Oscar-winning film "The Apartment."
Born John Anthony Fetto II in Brooklyn, Seven also appeared in such shows as "Chips," "Naked City," "The Untouchables," "Peter Gunn," "Death Valley Days," "Bonanza," "Gunsmoke," "The Phil Silvers Show," "Batman," "The Wild Wild West" and "Charlie's Angels."
Film credits include roles in "The Last Mile" (1959) with Mickey Rooney, "Guns of the Timberland" (1960) with Alan Ladd and Blake Edwards' "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" (1966).
Seven, who got his start on the New York stage, co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 1964 indie film "Navajo Run.
Seven portrayed Lt. Carl Reese on 30 episodes of NBC's 1968-75 "Ironside" series and played Shirley MacLaine's brother, Karl Matuschka, in Billy Wilder's 1960 Oscar-winning film "The Apartment."
Born John Anthony Fetto II in Brooklyn, Seven also appeared in such shows as "Chips," "Naked City," "The Untouchables," "Peter Gunn," "Death Valley Days," "Bonanza," "Gunsmoke," "The Phil Silvers Show," "Batman," "The Wild Wild West" and "Charlie's Angels."
Film credits include roles in "The Last Mile" (1959) with Mickey Rooney, "Guns of the Timberland" (1960) with Alan Ladd and Blake Edwards' "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" (1966).
Seven, who got his start on the New York stage, co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 1964 indie film "Navajo Run.
- 1/26/2010
- by By Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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