Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
- new year's eve
- new york city
- lovesickness
- clerk
- winter
- age difference
- suicide attempt
- office
- flat
- spaghetti
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jack Lemmon
C.C. Baxter
Shirley MacLaine
Fran Kubelik
Fred MacMurray
Jeff D. Sheldrake
Ray Walston
Joe Dobisch
- Jack Kruschen — Dr. Dreyfuss
- David Lewis — Al Kirkeby
- Hope Holiday — Margie MacDougall
- Joan Shawlee — Sylvia
- Naomi Stevens — Mrs. Mildred Dreyfuss
- Johnny Seven — Karl Matuschka
- Joyce Jameson — The Blonde
- Willard Waterman — Mr. Vanderhoff
- David White — Mr. Eichelberger
- Edie Adams — Miss Olsen
- Dorothy Abbott — Office Worker (uncredited)
- Directed
- Billy Wilder
- Written
- I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
Production
- Studio
- The Mirisch Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
