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...Apartment (Mirisch; United Artists) is the funniest movie made in Hollywood since Some Like It Hot (TIME, March 23, 1959). What's more, it was made by the same two men, Producer-Director Billy Wilder and Writer I.A.L. Diamond, who made that uproarious travesty of transvestitism, and it features the same deft comedian. Jack Lemmon. There the similarities end. The earlier film was a Mack Sennett farce with boys for bathing beauties. Apartment is a comedy of men's-room humours and water-cooler politics that now and then among the belly laughs says something serious...
...Horse Soldiers (Mirisch; United Artists). "Thundah in thuh outhouse!" the startled Mississippi belle (Constance Towers) exclaims. "Them's Yankees!" Them, to be more precise, is the 1st Brigade, U.S. Cavalry. Colonel John Wayne commanding, and they are plunging along toward Newton Station in Director John Ford's $5,000,000 screen version of Grierson's Raid through the depths of Confederate territory during Grant's advance on Vicksburg. Summoning all her Southern charm, the proud beauty invites Wayne and his officers to dinner. Making the most of her downfall neckline, she leans low over the harried...
Some Like It Hot (Mirisch; United Artists), Marilyn Monroe's first picture in nearly two years, is a double-barreled period piece: it not only parodies the freewheeling, gangster-ridden '20s, but it recalls the pie-throwing farce of cinema's infant days...
...John] Wayne there," recalls Rackin. The Duke joined up for $750,000 and 20% of the net, and later Bill Holden was only too willing to come in on the same ducal terms. Of the rest of the pie, 20% each went to the backers of the whole deal (Mirisch Co.), to the distributor (United Artists), and to Mahin-Rackin. Said Wheeler-Dealer Marty Rackin as Horse Soldiers was being readied for release: "Hollywood's gone crazy. It'll have to find its level again when all this dies down...
...from the West (Mirisch; United Artists) puts Gary Cooper back in the saddle after an interim of a couple of years in which he grey-flanneled it around Paris with Audrey Hepburn (Love in the Afternoon) and Manhattan with Suzy Parker (Ten North Frederick). To celebrate the occasion, the producer has given him De Luxe Color and even a welcome home from one of the other characters, who says admiringly: "You look good back up on that hoss." At 57, Coop does look fine; it is the picture that needs to get up off its haunches...