"Sheldrake is a smooth talker—the kind of guy who always gets what he wants and good-naturedly steamrolls anyone standing in his path. C.C. and Fran are the schnooks who stand in the way of his pursuit of happiness and are flattened as a result. 'Some people take, some people get took,' Fran observes, and it is abundantly clear that she and C.C. belong to the latter category. C.C., we realize, is too soft to ever cut it as an executive—or a womanizer. He retains too much decency—a problem his fellow executives do not have to worry much about."
Saul Asterlitz in the Los Angeles Times marks the fiftieth anniversary of Billy Wilder's The Apartment.
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