The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Visiting New Jersey and his wealthier older brother Harry (Gene Saks), Mel (Jack Lemmon) grumbles and finally admits he got laid off at the ad firm, preceding the visit of Edna (Anne Bancroft), who doesn’t know, and Harry’s wife (Maxine Stuart), in the Neil Simon Broadway adaptation The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, 1975.

Opening with a convincing sampling of Manhattan (though it doesn’t look like the heat wave the radio commentator, Gary Owens, describes) Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft introduced as the leads, from Neil Simon’s play and screenplay, and no less than F. Murray Abraham driving the cab, in The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, 1975.

In which Jack Lemmon, as unemployed advertising pro Mel, after therapy, bumps into Sylvester Stallone at 5th Ave. and East 68th, then races thru Central Park, with geographically incoherent shots, and eventually tackles him, in Neil Simon’s The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, released in 1975, the year before Stallone’s Rocky, 1976.

In a Manhattan heat wave, advertising man Mel (Jack Lemmon) awakens and alarms his notably compassionate spouse Edna (Anne Bancroft), in director Melvin Frank's The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, 1975, from Neil Simon's play and screenplay.

Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft play a newly unemployed executive and his wife in Neil Simon's comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975).