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Summary: A Comic Inspiration...To Me!
Review: Of all the classic comedies that starred Doris Day and Rock Hudson, or the two stars with other co-stars, this remains my favorite.The legendary late Rock Hudson was at his peak in this romantic comedy, and who better to showcase his charms against, than quintessential girl-next-door, Doris Day. Hudson thrives on his ability to charm indeed, as a songwriter named Brad Allen. Brad is a love-em and leave-em kind of guy, who entertains a seemingly endless array of lovesick females at his well equipped bachelor pad. He also sings to them over the phone for hours on end, tying up the telephone party-line he shares with Jan Morrow, interior designer, enter a perturbed Doris Day. Every time Jan picks up the phone, she hears Brad sing "You're My Inspiration...", and always with a new girls' name attached to the end. Flabbergasted at his womanizing, she sends a phone company rep to have a word with Mr. Allen, only to find that she TOO has fallen for the tall dark and handsome playboy. .............. Jan tells her boyfriend of sorts played by the wonderful veteran comedy legend Tony Randall, about her dialing dilemma. Randall, as always, plays himself. He's neat, dapper and proper, as not only Jan's boyfriend, but Brad Allen's friend and boss as well. After extoling the virtues of Jan to Brad, and mentioning that she shares a party-line with "some nut", describing the singing phone routine, Brad is too curious to find out what Randall is so wild about. After Brad Allen finally glimpses Jan Morrow dancing at a club, and sees the other end of his party line is not the shrew he expected, he sets out for his sweetest conquest of all................ "Pillow Talk" is a timeless gem of classic comedy. Amazingly, it was considered quite risque in it's time. This only goes to show just how jaded the world and cinema has become since 1959. Rock Hudson was actually embarrassed, and nearly declined the role. We can speculate in retrospect why he felt that way, but no one could've been a better cad than Rock as Brad! The one and only Doris Day is sweet as sunshine, until the duped decorator delighfully disarms Mr. Allen's charms, leaving him, for the first time, really in love with someone other than himself. Thelma Ritter is amusing as Jan's perpetually hung-over housekeeper. It's a truly comic moment when Ritter counsels Brad over a few too many drinks on how to win Jan over, and Hudsons' head hits the table with a thud, while Ritter babbles on oblivous to her companions condition. Tony Randall is his classic prim self, and laugh out loud funny, as he storms into his own place to rescue Jan from the smug seducer huffing the line "At least you could have had the DECENCY...to bring your OWN champagne!" .............. There are too many wonderful moments in this film to cover them all. If you somehow haven't, it's far better for you to enjoy watching this long lost genre of the innocent, fun, fresh feel-good romantic comedy, and experience first hand, the pure delight it has to offer in abundance.
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Summary: Day and Hudson are perfect!
Review: I am a huge fan of the "good ol' classics", and any movie with Doris Day and/or Rock Hudson has my seal of approval. In this movie, Doris Day plays a busy interior decorator who shares a phone line with a playboy-like Broadway songwriter. When Hudson discovers that the other half of his phone line, although annoying, is a total knock-out, he decides to court her as someone else. She's enchanted, but his conscience is getting to him as he begins to fall in love with her. Tony Randall does an excellent job as the three-time divorced businessman, who simply can't get that gorgeous interior decorator off his mind, especially when he discovers his best friend is dating her. If you are looking for a hilarious, yet romantic movie, look no further than Pillow Talk. You will be delighted that you saw it. You might as well buy it. Skip the rental stuff. Once you've seen at least once, you'll want to watch it over and over again.
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Summary: My Favorite Doris Day, Rock Hudson Movie!
Review: Pillow Talk is my favorite of the Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies and I find this movie very charming and delightful and very funny. I had Pillow Talk on video but I gave it away because I was going to buy the widescreen DVD. I had never seen Pillow Talk in widescreen until I saw it on TCM last year and I much prefer to watch this gem in it's original aspect ratio and I very greatly recommend this movie but now that there is a boxset coming out in April of all three of Doris and Rock's movies on DVD I think that is what I will buy because I would like to have all three of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson movies on DVD and the price of the boxset is very good. Pillow Talk is about a woman named Jan played by Doris Day who shares a telephone partyline with a man named Brad. They have never met but have heard each others voices on the phone and because of an ongoing feud dislike each other but that is until Brad sees Jan in a nightclub and realizes who she is and pretends to be someone else and woos her. This is a cute movie and not only are Doris Day and Rock Hudson very good but so are Thelma Ritter and Tony Randall!
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Summary: Terrible DVD - Shame on Universal!
Review: Ditto to Mr. Von Pien's review. This misframing is unacceptable. I was resigned to the fact that the dirt and scratches weren't cleaned up for this new edition, but the mis-framing really put this over-the-top into being a botched release. Universal should really pull this edition. We all work way too hard for our money to to be given this poor a product. A much lesser, non-Academy Award winning film, Don Knott's "The Ghost And Mr. Chicken" looks great on DVD: sharp, clear, blemish-free, and nicely framed, so Universal CAN take care on their budget line DVDs, they just chose not to in "Pillow Talk"'s case. Shame on Universal! Do NOT waste your money on this version.
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Summary: Party Line Problems
Review: This film was a lot better than I was expecting. Doris Day stars as an interior decorator sharing a party line with composer and womanizer Rock Hudson. Their constant battling over the phone is a source of much frustration, but in one of those it-could-only-happen-in-the-movies plots, Hudson ends up impersonating a Texan oilman and they fall in love. Day and Hudson demonstrate their considerable on-screen chemistry in this film, with good support from the perpetual romantic loser Tony Randall as Hudson's friend, and an underused Thelma Ritter as Day's drinking maid. The movie looks great, and is surprisingly adult given the time it was made. It is pretty predictable, but the laughs are there, the script has a number of good lines, and the whole production is very polished. It's not hard to see why Day and Hudson were a popular romantic team.
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Summary: AFI's Greatest Love Stories: #99 Pillow Talk
Review: "Pillow Talk" is far and away the best of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson films. The eternal love triangle this time around has Rock as Brad Allen, a song writer, who is being financed by millionaire Broadway producer Jonathan Forbes (the dapper Tony Randall), who is trying to woo Jan Morrow, the interior dectorator played by Doris. The fun beings when Brad and Jan discover they share a two-party line. She quickly grows tired of hearing him ply his sauve charm on unsuspecting ladies and when he discovers who she is, he comes up with a fake Texas accent to play her ideal man. Of course his joke backfires and he falls for her hard. But that is not as hard as he is calling to fall when she finds out the truth. Thelma Ritter steals more than her fair share of scene as Alma. Both Day and Ritter were nominated for Oscars while the screenplay for "Pillow Talk" won the Oscar for writers Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, and Stanley Shapiro Most romantic line(s): Tough one because most of the great lines are so sarcastic in this one. How about when she says, "Officer, arrest this man - he's taking me up to his apartment!" and the cop says, "Well, I can't say that I blame him, miss." Ah, simplier times indeed. Two Tear-Jerking Scenes: (0) No, you laugh at the end of this one. If you like "Pillow Talk," then check out these other films on AFI's list: #28 "The Shop Around the Corner." Why? Because they both have it where he knows who she is but she does not know that he is even though they both know each other. #89 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Why? Because if you like bickering, George and Martha know how to bicker.
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Summary: Timeless romantic comedy
Review: Pillow Talk is one of my all time favourite romantic comedies and it is timeless. Jan Morrow (Doris Day) and Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) share a party line (telephone line). Brad, a composer, is a womaniser and is often on the phone to one of his many girlfriends and more often than not singing the same ballad to one of them "You are inspiration...". Jan is an interior decorator but can't seem to use the phone because of Brad's constant smooching over the phone. Brad works for Tony Allen, composing songs.Jan is Tony Randall's interior decorator. Tony thinks he's in love with Jan but Jan isn't interested. By coincidence Brad overhears Jan's conversation in a restaurant and discovers it's the other half of his party line and when he sets eyes on her he's interested but he knows that Jan won't be interested in him unless he comes up with a plan. He then decides to disguise himself as a country gentleman from Texas and takes on the name of Rex Stetson. Thus begins the wooing of Jan by Rex/Brad. I love this film. It's so sweet and innocent, unlike the films of today. There are laugh out loud scenes aswell, especially when Rock Hudson speaks to Doris Day on the phone as Rex Stetson all charming and polite and then abruptly changes to be Brad Allen who is the opposite of Rex all rude and ungentlemanly. I've watched this film many times and enjoy every time I watch it again. Pure escapism. Rock Hudson and Doris Day has tremendous chemistry on screen and it really looks like they are enjoying themselves and this is reflected in what we see on screen. If you're looking for a sweet romantic comedy with bright colours and music and a good laugh, look no further.
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Summary: superb comedy classic!
Review: This is one of my all time favorite movies! It will be funny a hundred years from now. What does Brad Allen (Rock Hudson), a womaniser, and Jan Morrow (Doris Day) the girl next door interior decorator, have in common? They are on the same party-line (telephone). Every time Jan wants to use the phone she finds him on it singing the song..."you are my inspiration" to some girl (a different one each time). She is disgusted by his actions and because she has a hard time using the phone herself. They get into a feud about it. They also have a mutual acquaintance, Tony Randall. Tony thinks he's in love with Jan and Brad is supposed to be writing music for Tony. When Brad finally sees Jan (unknown to her), he decides he wants to date her, but he knows, because of their feuding, she won't give him the time of day. Thus, he pretends to be someone else, and the story just gets so funny as it is played out. Tony Randall and Thelma Ritter are superb also. This is one fantastic movie! Enjoy!
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Summary: Comedy's Dream Team Delivers Smash Hit!
Review: There is a good reason why "Pillow Talk" was the biggest grossing film of 1960: It's a comedy masterpiece! Jan Morrow (Doris Day) has a hard time with Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) whom she's never met, but she knows his constant chatting on their party-line telephone is outrageous! Brad meets Jan by chance, but conceals his identity, determined to have her fall in love with him. Tony Randall contributes many laughs, and Thelma Ritter as Alma, the perpetually 'tipsy' maid is at her best. A wonderful cast of minor characters are the icing of the comedy cake. A busy side walk scene shows a mother with her small son who asks "Why is that man carrying that lady over his shoulder?". The perfect 1959 answer: "I'll explain it to you when you're old enough". I'm sure anyone reading this review has already seen this film, but if not, treat yourself to this wide-screen DVD version! Highly recommended.*****
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Summary: A 5 Star Movie on a 1 Star DVD!
Review: Pillow Talk is my favorite of the three movies that Doris Day and Rock Hudson made and I bought the new boxset that has all three of their movies in anamorphic widescreen and while Lover Come Back and Send Me No Flowers seem to be okay the Pillow Talk DVD is horrible! It was badly botched with misframing flaws. In several scenes the tops of heads are cut off and in one scene for a couple of seconds half of Tony Randall's face is cut out of the frame and it's very annoying! Like someone said, doesn't Universal check the progress of their DVDs before they sell them? I have noticed too that the wider the television screen is the more noticeable the flaws are and considering that anamorphic widescreen is susposed to be enhanced for widescreen TVs that this really is unexceptable! Pillow Talk is a 5 star movie that is sadly on a 1 star DVD and I really think the 1 star is way to generous for such a badly misframed anamorpcic DVD! FYI: The individual anamorphic Pillow Talk DVD is the same one that is in the boxset, only difference is that they didn't include the individidual storage case.
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