Save the Tiger, 1973

Jack Lemmon and Jack Gilford own a company in the garment industry. They seem perfectly relatable except Jack Lemmon hires prostitutes for his buyers, they cheated on their taxes and look into hiring an arsonist to avoid bankruptcy and prison. They care about their employees. They committed a serious crime to keep the place open so the girls could keep working, but the arsonist points out their countless fire code violations.

I watched a person become increasingly corrupt just running a small business. Don't let it happen to you.

Lemmon won an Oscar for his performance and Jack Gilford was nominated for best supporting actor. I heard in an interview once that they showed the movie to Billy Wilder before it came out. There was a beautifully acted scene early in the film. Wilder agonized for a moment and suggested they cut it. It threw off the flow of the movie.

Watching it again, sort of remembering the brief description of the scene I heard twenty years ago, I wonder if they just moved it to the end.