The Apartment
FILM 9.50PM, BBC4
Billy Wilder won Oscars for writing and directing this 1960 movie starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine and Fred Macmurray in a love triangle that’s a great deal more grown-up than your average rom-com. It has a lot to say about morality, double standards and hierarchies in American companies of the day, and can be summed up by the instruction given to Jack Lemmon by his neighbour, a world-weary doctor: ‘Be a mensch!’ (a person of integrity). Wilder also directed Witness for the Prosecution, showing earlier at 8pm. ★★★★★