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Plot
Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) checks into a fleabag hotel near Times Square and attempts to kill himself by jumping out of the window, but he fails to open it and pulls a muscle in his back. Limping back on the street he tries to get drunk at a dance bar and ends up hurting his neck when he throws down a shot. He stands on a bridge, contemplating jumping into the river.

Meanwhile, in the frowzy Upper West Side apartment of divorced sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) on a hot and sticky summer evening, Oscar and his buddies Speed (Larry Haines), Roy (David Sheiner), Vinnie (John Fiedler), and Murray (Herb Edelman) the cop are playing poker and discussing their friend, Felix Ungar, who is unusually late for the game. Murray's wife calls and tells him that Felix is missing. Oscar then calls Felix's wife Frances who says that she and Felix have split up. As they are discussing what to do, and worried that Felix might try to commit suicide, Felix arrives not knowing that his friends already know that his wife has kicked him out of the house.
Felix eventually breaks down crying and his friends try to console him. Oscar then suggests that Felix move in with him, since Oscar has lived alone since he split up with his own wife, Blanche, several months earlier. Felix agrees, and urges Oscar to not be shy about letting him know if he gets on Oscar's nerves.
Within only a week, Oscar is going nuts. Felix is a neurotic, obsessive-compulsive nut, who runs around the apartment cleaning, picking up after Oscar, and berating him for being such a slob. He also refuses to have any fun, spending most of his time thinking about Frances. Felix at one point even telephones Oscar at Shea Stadium telling him not to eat any hot dogs at the game, because Felix is preparing franks and beans for dinner; this distraction causes Oscar to miss seeing a rare triple-play at the Mets game on which he is reporting. The two men are shown bowling, shooting pool, and walking the city streets. Felix has a sinus attack, making loud obnoxious noises while seated in a coffee shop. Finally, after Felix drives everyone at the weekly poker game crazy, Oscar convinces Felix to lighten up and join him on a double-date with two British girls who live in the building – the Pigeon sisters, Cecily (Monica Evans) and Gwendolyn (Carole Shelley),[3] who actually "coo" when they laugh.
As the date commences, Oscar tries to get Felix to loosen up by leaving him alone for a while in their living room with the two attractive, and somewhat frisky, sisters. Instead, he winds up talking about Frances, and breaks down weeping. When Oscar returns from their kitchen, the Pigeon sisters, one a divorcee, the other widowed, are sobbing as uncontrollably as Felix. Oscar cheers them up and they invite the boys upstairs for what should be a wild night. Instead, Felix, who realizes that he is still too attached to his wife, refuses to go, opting to "scrub the pots and wash his hair" instead. Oscar joins the sisters in their apartment, but winds up spending the night drinking tea and telling them all about Felix.
Furious about Felix's ruining the date, Oscar resorts to giving Felix the silent treatment and torturing him by messing up the apartment as much as possible. Felix retaliates by just being himself, driving Oscar insane with his endless cleaning and neurotic behavior. Eventually, the tension explodes into an argument that results in Oscar demanding that Felix move out. Felix complies, but leaves Oscar with a major-league guilt trip for having abandoned his still-in-need friend.
Feeling awful about throwing Felix out, and not knowing where he has gone, Oscar assembles his poker buddies to search New York City for Felix in Murray's NYPD police car, which he's not supposed to use. After searching for hours, they return to Oscar's apartment to find out that Felix has moved in with the Pigeon sisters. Oscar and Felix apologize to each other, and realize that a bit of each has rubbed off on the other, with each being a better person for it. Felix agrees that next Friday night, he will be at Oscar's apartment for their poker game. Oscar tells his friends to clean up their mess after the poker game is over, ending the film.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odd_Couple_(film)

Cast
Jack Lemmon as Felix Ungar ジャック・レモン
Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison ウォルター・マッソー
Herb Edelman as Murray ハーブ・エデルマン
John Fiedler as Vinnie ジョン・フィードラー
David Sheiner as Roy デヴィッド・シェイナー

Academy Awards
Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Film Editing

今日の映画は1968年公開の「おかしな二人」。主演はジャック・レモンとウォルター・マッソー。。この二人はこの作品以外にも多くの作品で共演をしています。監督はジーン・サックスという人ですが有名でないので省略します。
この作品はニール・サイモンによる同名の舞台が原作となっており、その舞台の映画化です。ニール・サイモン自身が脚色を担当しました。ニューヨークの同じ部屋に住むことになったずぼらな性格のスポーツ記者オスカー・マディソンと几帳面な性格のフェリックス・アンガーが巻き起こす騒動を描いた喜劇です。
フェリックスは本当に几帳面でくだらないことでも電話をかけます。夕食はホットドッグにするから、それを食べるなと球場で仕事中のオスカーに電話をかけます。その結果オスカーは貴重なトリプルプレーを見逃してしまいました。

実はこの作品には続編があります。この映画の公開の30年後の1998年「おかしな二人2」が公開されています。この映画でもジャック・レモンがフェリックス、ウォルター・マッソーがオスカーを演じました。30年も空くというのはかなり異例なことです。この続編でもニール・サイモンが脚本を担当しました。どうやら一作目から17年経過したという設定のようです。見た目は17年以上経っているように見えますが。
2つの映画を合わせて見てみるのもいいかもしれません。
私は続編の方はまだ見たことありません。

おかしな二人 [ ジャック・レモン ] 価格:1,000円 (2017/4/18 11:15時点) 感想(0件)