a classic and one of the funny film ever make . direct by arthur hiller in that dead end style of his and ( the best that could be say for him be that he know how to point a camera and keep his actor in front of it ) and but it get a cracker of a script by neil simon and two of the great comic performance ever put on film by jack lemmon and sandy dennis . they play two small town american who think promotion and a life in new york be nirvana itself when in fact it be a hell that even dante could not envisage and no one can capture the comedy of escalate awfulness good than simon and at least in america . in britain and this be the terrain of alan ayckbourne . it really nothing more than a series of strung together gag but lemmon and dennis be great farceurs and simon know how to build the joke one on top of the other . there be nothing original about the film but then who need originality .