The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
...and you think you've got problems.
98 min
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.
- Release date
- March 14, 1975
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Marvin Hamlisch
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Cast
- Jack Lemmon as Mel Edison
- Anne Bancroft as Edna Edison
- Gene Saks as Harry Edison
- Elizabeth Wilson as Pauline
- Florence Stanley as Pearl
- Maxine Stuart as Belle
- Ed Peck as Man Upstairs
- Gene Blakely as Charlie
- Ivor Francis as Psychiatrist
- Stack Pierce as Detective
- Patricia Marshall as Woman Upstairs
- Dee Carroll as Helen
- Ketty Lester as Unemployment Clerk
- M. Emmet Walsh as Doorman
- F. Murray Abraham as Taxi Driver
- James McCallion as Mr. Cooperman
- Sylvester Stallone as Youth in Park
- Alan DeWitt as Wayne Morgan
- Lonnie Burr as Man on Street (uncredited)
- Ben Lautman as NYU Student (uncredited)
- Gary Owens as Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
- John Ritter as Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
- Cosmo Sardo as Subway Passenger (uncredited)
- Joe Turkel as Man Upstairs (voice) (uncredited)
Crew
- Melvin Frank · Director
- Neil Simon · Writer
- Melvin Frank · Producer
- Marvin Hamlisch · Composer
- Philip H. Lathrop · Cinematographer
- Bob Wyman · Editor