TCM Pick O’ The Day: Wednesday, January 28th

by John Nolte

7pm PST - Prisoner of Second Avenue, The (1975) – A suddenly unemployed executive and his understanding wife must adapt to their new life. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Elizabeth Wilson, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks Dir: Melvin Frank BW-98 mins, TV-PG

TCM’s Star of the Month is the irreplaceable Jack Lemmon, who died in 2001, and I’m still not over it.

“The Prisoner of Second Avenue” ranks among Neil Simon’s finest works thanks to his dynamite script, Lemmon’s central performance played perfectly on a knife edge of comedy and tragedy, the marvelous Anne Bancroft as his understanding wife, and Manhattan in the mid 70s, when the city was a vibrant character all on its own. (more…)

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Posted Jan 27th 2009 at 5:14 pm in Today's Pick | 16 Comments