The Apartment with Matthew Weiner in Person

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, directed by Billy Wilder, 1960.

Introduction by Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner.

"I had seen this for the first time in film school and was bowled over by the dynamic writing and the passive nature of its hero, Jack Lemmon’s C.C. Baxter. It is definitely a story of its times, firmly rooted in a Manhattan where seemingly regular men behave unscrupulously, and it completely engaged my imagination as a representation of office and sexual politics at the time. It blends humor and pathos effortlessly." −Matthew Weiner