11/5: The Apartment

Billy Wilder's classic The Apartment is coated with the thinnest layer of comedic disguise, as though Wilder had taken his film and simply put a blatantly fake mustache and Groucho Marx eyebrows on it, hoping its deeper identity would somehow remain hidden in spite of the flimsiness. Or, more likely, he very much hoped the disguise would fail, hoped that audiences wouldn't fall for that veneer