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Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond 1960

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053604/

El empleado Bud Baxter le presta a su jefe el departamento para que tenga encuentros con su amante. Al descubrir que la mujer del jefe es la chica de quien está enamorado, él necesita decidir entre la dama que ama y su carrera.


                     THE APARTMENT

                           by

            Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond




                        THE APARTMENT

A DESK COMPUTER

A man's hand is punching out a series of figures on the
keyboard.

                         BUD (V.O.)
            On November first, 1959, the
            population of New York City was
            8,042,783.  if you laid all these
            people end to end, figuring an
            average height of five feet six and
            a half inches, they would reach
            from Times Square to the outskirts
            of Karachi, Pakistan.  I know facts
            like this because I work for an
            insurance company --

THE INSURANCE BUILDING - A WET, FALL DAY

It's a big mother, covering a square block in lower
Manhattan, all glass and aluminum, jutting into the leaden
sky.

                         BUD (V.O.)
            -- Consolidated Life of New York.
            We are one of the top five companies
            in the country -- last year we
            wrote nine-point-three billion
            dollars worth of policies.  Our
            home office has 31,259 employees --
            which is more than the entire
            population of Natchez, Mississippi,
            of Gallup, New Mexico.

INT. NINETEENTH FLOOR

Acres of gray steel desk, gray steel filing cabinets, and
steel-gray faces under indirect light.  One wall is lined
w