Odd Couple

Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of the Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar-«-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays fussy Felix, fastidious to a fault. He proves that cleanliness is next to insanity. Matthau is Oscar, who wreaks havoc on a tidy room with the speed and thoroughness of a tornado. An enduring and endearing picture, with the intelligence on usually misses in comedies.

Director: Gene Saks
Producer: Howard W. Koch
Actor: David Sheiner
Actor: Herb Edelman
Actor: John Fiedler
Actor: Walter Matthau
Actor: Jack Lemmon
Actor: Carole Shelley
Actor: Iris Adrian
Actor: Larry Haines
Actor: Monica Evans
Actor: Roberto Clemente