The Odd Couple (7/8) Movie CLIP - Oscar Breaks Down (1968) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Oscar (Walter Matthau) finally breaks down after Felix's (Jack Lemmon) unrelenting cleaning habits get the best of their friendship.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Compulsive neatnik Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) is thrown out of his house by his divorce-bound wife. He wanders aimlessly through the streets of New York, toying with the idea of suicide, before gravitating to the apartment of his best friend, incorrigibly sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau). Worried that Felix will try something desperate, Oscar, himself in the process of being divorced by his wife, invites Felix to move in with him. Within a few days, this mismatched pair is on the verge of mutual murder: Felix cannot abide Oscar's slovenliness, while Oscar is driven insane by Felix's obsession with cleanliness. A potentially passionate evening with Oscar's neighbors, the "coo-coo" Pigeon sisters (Monica Evans and Carole Shelley) is ruined when Felix, ruminating over his wife and children, reduces the two ladies to remorseful tears. Pushed to the brink, Oscar stalks around the apartment making as big a mess as possible. Comes the next week's poker game, and the previously vengeful Oscar is worried that Felix might have attempted to do away with himself again. Instead, a surprisingly self-confident Felix shows up to collect his belongings, then announces that he's temporarily moving upstairs with the toothsome Pigeon sisters! There's a laugh a second in this faithful movie adaptation of Neil Simon's hit Broadway play. A foolproof comic situation (allegedly based on a chapter in the life of Simon's brother Danny) is kept alive and healthy by some of the funniest dialogue ever written. The Odd Couple was later adapted into a long-running TV sitcom starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman.

CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1968)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
Director: Gene Saks
Producer: Howard W. Koch
Screenwriter: Neil Simon

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[sclerismockrey]

His voice change -- "...and after three weeks of close personal contact..." BWAHAHAHAHA! Matthau was a genius.

[cinerama]

I know him. He'll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back, following me around the apartment, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning, haunting and cleaning...

[jage]

Oh I love this. I can recite all the lines without cracking up. Only real movie in the world. Best movie of all time!

[Usedwtm]

I did this scene in high school! My dad's always been a Neil Simon fan so when a friend and I were told to do a dramatic scene I jumped at the chance to play Oscar. I LOVED performing it. I still remember most of my lines. This was a nice throwback.

[kprdwd]

One of the best scene from one of Lemmon and Matthau's best movies.

[davehoward]

"Ring a bell, and I'll run into the bedroom." ..lol

[jediskunk]

“Walk on the paper will you, I washed the floor in there.”

[The-Portland-Daily-Blink]

A Walter Matthau masterpiece. The way his voice changes... we've all been there when someone, usually a small child drives us completely up the wall. So funny!

[Sigma]

Oscar: "We're outta Corn Flakes F.U." It took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Unger.

[Beanie-Sandals]

Skinner: "You know, we're kind of like the original odd couple. You're the messy one and I'm..." *interrupted
Homer: "SHUT UP!!!"

[ignaciobazan]

Superb, anything else to say. Matthau is a genius pulling faces

[ProfessorWhooves]

Just watched this last night! One of my absolute favorite classics of all time!

“If I’ve just been told off, I think I may have missed it.”

[SolWaid]

They have got to be the best! I've seen it so many times and each time I crack up! Gotta hand it to Neil Simon's writing, too of course! Thanks for posting this...made my day!

[StarWarsMoments]

Nobody reads the room incorrectly like Jack Lemmon.

[eugenebell]

Definitely on my list as one of the best movies of all time, absolutely love it.
Two divorcees with totally opposite personalities living together, who eventually become like a married couple. Things come to a head and they kinda divorce.
What a brilliant Idea for a film.

[garylobo]

In his last movie with Jack Lemon, Kevin Pollock, also in the movie, said to Matthau:. Nice script, eh Walter?

Matthau replied:. The script sucks kid. I owe my bookie $2 million.
He wasn't kidding. How I love that guy!

[No-fddd]

Man nostalgia look at their faces the greatest most nostalgia hits

[MyLateralThawts]

You can almost hear the straw that broke the camels back, or rather Oscar’s snapping point.

[MM-yizn]

It is the Best & Funniest film of all time. Can be seen over & over & it’s as if it’s the first. Fresh & hilarious all over again. A rare comedy genius production.

[CaseyScoffieldWOW]

Man it's so strange to see them so young.