The Apartment (1960)

Taglines:

A Billy "Some Like It Hot" Wilder Production See more »

Parents Guide:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 September 1960 (France) See more »

Also Known As:

Piso de soltero See more »

Filming Locations:

205 Columbus Avenue, New York City, New York, USA See more »

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$25,000,000 (Worldwide) (January 1970)

Production Co:

Mirisch Corporation, The See more »

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Runtime:

125 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Trivia

Billy Wilder originally thought of the idea for the film after seeing Brief Encounter and wondering about the plight of a character unseen in that film. Shirley MacLaine was only given forty pages of the script because Wilder didn't want her to know how the story would turn out. She thought it was because the script wasn't finished. See more »

Goofs

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Fran buys a record album recorded by the small combo that performs in the Chinese restaurant she patronizes but when the record is played in Baxter's apartment, the tunes are lush orchestral arrangements, nothing like the lounge music heard in the café. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
C.C. Baxter: [narrating] On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this because I work for an insurance company - Consolidated Life of New York. We're one of the top five companies in the country. Our home office has 31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population of uhh...
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Connections

Referenced in Sin City (2005) See more »

Soundtracks

"Magdalena"
(uncredited)
Composed by Ary Macedo and Ayrton Amorín
Music played on the record player in the living room See more »