{"id":2164,"date":"2018-01-29T00:02:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T08:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2018-02-14T02:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T10:34:17","slug":"the-apartment-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediaplaynews.com\/the-apartment-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

BLU-RAY REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n

MVD\/Arrow;<\/strong>
\nComedy;<\/strong>
\n$49.95 Blu-ray;<\/strong>
\nNot rated.<\/strong>
\nStars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Edie Adams.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

When it comes to my personal choice for best\/favorite Billy Wilder movie, I usually zig-zag among Double Indemnity<\/em>, Sunset Boulevard<\/em>, Ace in the Hole<\/em> and The Apartment<\/em> \u2014 though let it be noted in the name of Joey Bishop that my strongest emotional attachment goes to Kiss Me, Stupid<\/em> (absolutely and eternally) and Stalag 17<\/em> (probably in second place due to how much I loved it as a youngster, particularly in the mail call scenes: \u201cAt ease<\/em>, at ease<\/em>\u201d). But re-savoring The Apartment<\/em> in Arrow\u2019s new limited edition and absorbing the bonus backgrounders both new and recycled from a past release, it\u2019s tough to deny the perfection of 1960\u2019s best picture Oscar winner all the way down the line, which in Wilder\u2019s case, always extended to the care he took with, say, the 125th-billed actor.<\/p>\n

And though topicality can be a trap when gauging a movie\u2019s effectiveness due to how today\u2019s dominator of news can eventually turn into tomorrow\u2019s LP of Anita Bryant\u2019s Greatest Hits<\/em>, it\u2019s a real punch to the face (and here, I mean this in a good sense) to see how a once controversial comedy-drama from 58 years ago can be so spot-on about sexual harassment in the work place. This, of course, is an issue not likely to fall prey to topicality limitations, so when we take a fresh jaded look at the comical sleazeball execs who populate the story\u2019s Manhattan-based insurance company \u2014 and with its big boss the worst offender of all \u2014 there\u2019s simply no way anyone can deny that the movie is more potent than it even was at the time.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, especially in view of its commercial success with a public that \u201cgot it,\u201d the picture got mixed reviews when it opened in the summer (Psycho<\/em>, The Apartment<\/em> and Kazan\u2019s Wild River<\/em> all opened in close proximity; ponder that the next time you deny that movies have gone to hell). Critically speaking, Pauline Kael got tiresomely huffy about it, but in truth \u2014 and in retrospect, this probably isn\u2019t very surprising \u2014 it was her male colleagues who were predominantly offended by the idea of a career-hungry insurance company exec (Jack Lemmon) advancing up the \u201cMad Men\u201d ladder by lending his apartment out to superiors for their extra-marital flings. (After, of course, packing his modest digs out with vodka and the right kind of cheese crackers.) Yeah, right: We all know this didn\u2019t happen in the Rat Pack era.<\/p>\n

Yet, something happened over the next few months (most likely, commercial acceptance), and by the time spring rolled around, The Apartment<\/em> won five Oscars \u2014 including three to Wilder himself for producing, directing and co-writing with I.A.L. Diamond. Despite Lemmon\u2019s supporting Oscar for 1955\u2019s Mister Roberts<\/em>, it was Wilder\u2019s Some Like It Hot<\/em> in 1959 that had \u201cmade\u201d the actor, and Wilder knew even during Hot<\/em>\u2019s production that not only did he want him for this immediate follow-up \u2014 and that if he couldn\u2019t get Lemmon and his ingratiating personality as an audience buffer amid an undeniably sordid premise, the picture probably wouldn\u2019t be made. It was genius casting, as was Shirley MacLaine\u2019s as the plot-central elevator girl (as they used to be called), as was Fred MacMurray as the firm\u2019s slimy personnel director, Mr. Sheldrake \u2014 albeit in this case, casting that emerged from tragedy.<\/p>\n

Paul Douglas, who hadn\u2019t looked too healthy in swan song The Mating Game<\/em> from \u201959, was signed and ready to go in the Sheldrake role before suddenly dropping dead of a heart attack. Though Douglas is a lifelong favorite of mine and had played the brashly crude Harry Brock character on Broadway in Born Yesterday<\/em>, he was almost always lovable (if gruffly lovable) in the movies, and I can\u2019t recall his ever having played an absolute heel on screen. MacMurray (and his eyebrows) convey the character\u2019s all but transparent dark side at once, and the No. 1 revelation I\u2019ve taken from this recent viewing is just how great MacMurray is here. Though he initially resisted the part due to his then recent Disney association and the launching of TV\u2019s \u201cMy Three Sons\u201d (on this week\u2019s episode, dad cheats with a pert employee who eventually tries to kill herself), this is one of MacMurray\u2019s two career performances. Both were for Wilder \u2014 the other being his all-timer as the insurance agent who makes the worst sale possible policy sale this side of the one Bob Hope writes up for you-know-who in Alias Jesse James<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Technical credits are pro here, as Variety<\/em> reviews used to say, with the visual showstopper being the set for Lemmon\u2019s impersonally cavernous work \u201changar\u201d \u2014 the creation of Children of Paradise\u2019s<\/em> always-brilliant production designer Alexandre Trauner, who won an Oscar here. These key scenes were in turn heavily influenced by parts of King Vidor\u2019s The Crowd<\/em>, a silent so brilliantly off-the-charts that you\u2019d naturally expect it to be on DVD or Blu-ray yet one that only enjoyed a laserdisc release back in the Cro-Magnon video era. Meanwhile, versatile (and nominated) cinematographer Joseph LaShelle gives The Apartment<\/em> an appropriately noir-ish look while doing a flawless job of navigating Lemmon\u2019s just-functional digs (for him and for the work cronies who use it). Adolph Deutsch\u2019s score wasn\u2019t nominated, but this has to be because his main theme was borrowed or swiped from an obscure British film of the \u201940s (I\u2019d like to hear the story behind this). Even so, the music and its many moods give both the comedy and drama a huge boost, and the aforementioned theme caught on with the public and made it to Billboard<\/em>\u2019s No. 10 when Ferrante & Teicher hugely tickled 176 ivories in their tie-in recording.<\/p>\n

MGM\u2019s old Blu-ray never struck me as one of the most obvious titles that begged for a revamp, but the clean-up job Arrow has done here re-emphasizes the point that imagery delivered as the filmmaker intended it can go a long, long way toward totally putting over even a screenplay as verbally kinetic as The Apartment<\/em>\u2019s. (I love it when Oscar-nominated Jack Kruschen, as Lemmon\u2019s doctor neighbor, refers to the younger man\u2019s perceived sexual dalliances with a wide array of women, on certain evenings, as a \u201ctwi-night double header.\u201d) Bruce Block, who delivers an outstanding commentary carried over from the previous release, has a visual background \u2014 which, when combined with his massive research, makes for a wall-to-wall informative two hours.<\/p>\n

This Arrow version also adds a slew of featurettes that include a Wilder archival interview where he speaks extensively and sweetly about Diamond and a sturdy booklet with critical writings more on the ball than some of the original reviews. From what I\u2019ve seen to date, Arrow has become one of those companies whose name on the box means you can go to the bank, and this fresh viewing has, for me, been somewhat of a revelation. And this despite the fact that The Apartment<\/em> has always been one of my favorite films since seeing it in a summer drive-in double bill the following year with Elmer Gantry<\/em> \u2014 quite a night for a then recent 14-year-old and one that killed Disney Fred MacMurray\u2019s for me forever. Matter of fact, I\u2019d walked across the street to see Some Like It Hot<\/em> in \u201959 immediately after exiting the Fred-Walt original of The Shaggy Dog<\/em>, and even then, the comparison was one of \u201cGive me a break.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike’s Picks: ‘The Apartment’ and ‘Captain From Castile’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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