Double Feature
The Apartment
Winner of five 1960 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, The Apartment is legendary director Billy Wilder at his most scathing and satirical best. C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) knows the way to success in business… it’s through the door of his apartment! By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), he not only advances his career, but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake’s mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), elevator girl and angel of Bud’s dreams. Convinced that he is the only man for Fran, Bud must make the most important executive decision of his career: lose the girl… or his job. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios)
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writer
- Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
- Starring
- Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis
- Year
- 1960
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 125 minutes
After The Thin Man
It’s New Year’s Eve, Nick and Nora Charles have returned to the West Coast, and the philandering hubby of Nora’s cousin has gone missing. Round up the unusual suspects. The stars, writers and director of The Thin Man reunite for a giddy second comedy whodunit. Myrna Loy is Nora, who by all accounts doesn’t scold, doesn’t nag and looks far too pretty in the morning. William Powell is Nick, retired from sleuthing but hardly retiring when it comes to a case more scrambled than the 3 A.M. eggs he whips up. And rising star James Stewart leads a tip-top supporting cast. “This is a fine way to start the New Year,” Nick says as he springs Nora from lockup. Indeed, it is. (Warner Bros.)
- Director
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Writer
- Screen play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from the story by Dashiell Hammett
- Starring
- William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi
- Year
- 1936
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 112 minutes