Amazon.com Essentials:
Neil Simon's terribly funny play about roommates Oscar the
slob and Felix the neurotic was first committed to film in this 1968
production, directed by Gene Saks (Barefoot in the
Park). Perfectly timed, ingeniously rendered, not a hair out
of place in the history-making performances of Walter Matthau and Jack
Lemmon (or the great support cast), The Odd Couple is a movie
that one just has to see every two or three years to stay happy. The
poker-game sequence in which Oscar's cronies seem to be falling under
the sway of fussy Felix's talent for making sandwiches is
priceless. --Tom Keogh
