Movie
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Overview
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Details
- Release date
- 1975-03-14
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Jack Lemmon as Mel Edison
- Anne Bancroft as Edna Edison
- Gene Saks as Harry Edison
- Elizabeth Wilson as Pauline
- Florence Stanley as Pearl
- Maxine Stuart as Belle
- Ed Peck as Man Upstairs
- Gene Blakely as Charlie
- Ivor Francis as Psychiatrist
- Stack Pierce as Detective
- Patricia Marshall as Woman Upstairs
- Dee Carroll as Helen
Crew
- Melvin Frank - Director
- Neil Simon - Screenplay
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