There always seems to be an undercurrent of despair in any comedy that Jack Lemmon was in.
Although it's very notable and, at some points, to the fore in films like The Apartment and The Out Of Towners to name but two, it's perhaps less noticeable in The Odd Couple - and in a way that's strange.
After all, this film is extremely forward in Lemmon's suicidal tendencies, even going as far to book himself a hotel room to kill himself out of ("Do you have anything....higher?") and sending a suicide telegram. Yet I almost think it gets lost in amongst the events that happen in the second half of The Odd Couple, events which are what the film are…