'The Apartment' (1960)

On career advancement:

J.D. Sheldrake (played by Fred MacMurray): "Normally, it takes years to work your way up to the twenty-seventh floor. But it only takes 30 seconds to be out on the street again. You dig?"

Pictured, Sheldrake's subordinate, 'C.C.' Baxter (played by Jack Lemmon) with co-star Shirley MacLaine.