Jack Lemmon and and Walter Matthaw directed by Billy Wilder and teaming up again as a deranged husband and a professional hitman . As Lemmon is a clumsy would-be suicide who decides to end it all in a hotel due to his separated wife : Paula Prentiss . While Walter Matthaw is a hit man who rents the room next door and whose mission goes wrong . As this professional murderer has a well ordered-arrangement to knock off a state's witness , but Lemmon filling of his contract difficult , being interrupted by his suicide attempts.
A failed attempt at re-run The Odd Couple by coupling Walter Matthaw and Jack Lemmon as , respectively, a hired killer man and a jilted husband unluckly enough to have an adjoining hotel room . The results are less than comical but do provoke a few smiles and brief hilarious stuations . The great starring duo being well accompanied by a decent support cast , such as Paula Prentiss , Klaus Kinski , and Dana Elcar . Adding an atmospheric cinematography by Harry Stradling Jr , as well as a thrilling musical score by Lalo Schifrin in his usual of the Seventies .
Here Billy Wilder teams up again with his usual screenwriter , regular collaborator I A L Diamond who got dizzy heights from Sabrina and The Apartment to this inferior film compared to their masterpieces . Being Billy Wilder's last film feature , throughout a long career getting a lot of successes both , as writer and director , as he made the following prestigious flicks : "Double indemnity" , "Fortune Cookie" , "Lost Weekend" , "Spirit of St Louis" , "Love in the Afternoon" , "Some like hot" , "Sunset Boulevard" , "Witness for prosecution" , "Stalag 17" , "Seven Year Itch" , "One Two Three" , "Irma La Douce" , "Apartment" , "Fedora" , "The Private life of Sherlock Holmes" , among others. The yarn will appeal to Walter Matthaw and Jack Lemmon fans .
A failed attempt at re-run The Odd Couple by coupling Walter Matthaw and Jack Lemmon as , respectively, a hired killer man and a jilted husband unluckly enough to have an adjoining hotel room . The results are less than comical but do provoke a few smiles and brief hilarious stuations . The great starring duo being well accompanied by a decent support cast , such as Paula Prentiss , Klaus Kinski , and Dana Elcar . Adding an atmospheric cinematography by Harry Stradling Jr , as well as a thrilling musical score by Lalo Schifrin in his usual of the Seventies .
Here Billy Wilder teams up again with his usual screenwriter , regular collaborator I A L Diamond who got dizzy heights from Sabrina and The Apartment to this inferior film compared to their masterpieces . Being Billy Wilder's last film feature , throughout a long career getting a lot of successes both , as writer and director , as he made the following prestigious flicks : "Double indemnity" , "Fortune Cookie" , "Lost Weekend" , "Spirit of St Louis" , "Love in the Afternoon" , "Some like hot" , "Sunset Boulevard" , "Witness for prosecution" , "Stalag 17" , "Seven Year Itch" , "One Two Three" , "Irma La Douce" , "Apartment" , "Fedora" , "The Private life of Sherlock Holmes" , among others. The yarn will appeal to Walter Matthaw and Jack Lemmon fans .