The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)1h38
Comedy
Director Melvin Frank
Also directed The Court Jester, A Touch of Class, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, and 13 more
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.
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Cast
Jack Lemmon
Anne Bancroft
Gene Saks
Elizabeth Wilson
Florence Stanley
Maxine Stuart
Ed Peck
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