The Apartment

BBC4 9.50PM - 11.55PM ★★★★★

COMEDY Although Some Like It Hot is director Billy Wilder’s most popular comedy, this is just as good. Jack Lemmon has never been better than as a downtrodden businessman who allows his superiors to use his apartment for their secret trysts. Until, that is, he falls for elevator girl Shirley Maclaine. The result is a withering look at corporate ethics that has hardly dated at all. Dir: Billy Wilder 1960, PG SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE )