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Not role models and damaged but uplifting in a weird way and works on some levels in todays sick world.Released in 1960 and running 125 minutes,this was the best picture of 1960 so say the oscars.Being in B&W and having questionable morality in its damaged heros,I might not go so far,thus the 1 and 1/2 stars off.Still its stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in maybe their best roles and Fred"my three sons" MacMurray,all around good guy actor,in a role as a total heel.Inspired as he pulls it off !!! That is this film.Great acting transcending a questionable story that makes you interested.I was,you will be.Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary below.
As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment. What Baxter is unaware of is that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik, an elevator girl in the ... Written by Huggo
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