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Summary: My favorite DorisDay,RockHudson,Tony Randall Movie
Review: Out of the Three films Doris,Rock,and Tony made together,this is my favorite. I love all three movies,but this one's the best. The ending has got to be the funniest finals of any movie ever made."That's what I call cutting it close." I don't know how they got away with this in 1961. Doris Day has always been my favorite movie star,and I wrote to her when I was a kid,and she sent me a beutifull letter back,signed in Ink. I can still here my grandmother laugh when Doris left Rock at the beach with no clothes on. I also love Tony Randall's performace. He really makes the movie that much special. Donna Douglas has a small part in the movie,along with Edie Adams. Do you beleive that Doris was suppose to do The Graduate,playing Mrs Robinson?What a great change this would have been for the actress. At least we have all of her fantastic musicals and comedies to look at forever.There will never be another Doris Day.
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Summary: Buy It For The Grand Kids
Review: Regardless of all reviews listed here...buy the video for your children and grandchildren. It is a great education for new generations to learn about 1950's and 1960's.
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Summary: needs to be on dvd
Review: The synopsis has been given so I'll just skip that on this review. Anyway, this is my favorite Doris Day & Rock Hudson movie. The two have such wonderful chemistry. The movie was completely hilarious. I bought the video, but I wish that this movie was on dvd. I'd recommend it for any Rock Hudson & Doris Day fans.
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Summary: DAY AND HUDSON'S LOVELY "LOVER"
Review: The Winter of 1961-62 was a lot warmer thanks to the delightful onscreen antics of Doris Day, Rock Hudson, and Tony Randall, the triumvirate who had made a blockbuster called "Pillow Talk" a couple of years earlier. Reteamed in "Lover Come Back", they scored an even greater success this time out. Thanks to a very funny and sharp script penned by Stanley Shapiro, who won an Oscar for "Talk", and aided by Delbart Mann's smooth direction, "Lover" was the third biggest moneymaking film of 1962, right behind "That Touch of Mink", another Day/Shapiro/Mann collaboration.Seen today, "Lover Come Back" remains an uproarious comedy about the advertising trade in New York City. It's romantic, for sure, but it's also insightful, slightly satiric, and very sexy. Doris and Rock play competing advertising agents. She's professional and dedicated, he's unscrupulous, if necessary, seemingly willing to do anything to land an account. When they finally meet, he pretends to be someone else and therefore she falls in love with him. When she realizes who he really is, the romance flounders, briefly, before a "bundle of joy" brings things to a happy conclusion. Despite decades of crass comments from pundits purporting to know what they're talking about, Doris Day does not play a virgin. As in "Pillow Talk" and multiple other films, she plays a highly successful career woman who refuses to become a "notch" on some man's belt. There is never an indication that she is an "innocent", merely that she will not sleep with a man who has attempted to dupe, deceive, lie to or manipulate her. In "Lover", she offers to teach Hudson how to make love, clearly indicating that she is experienced. This fails to happen only when she realizes that Hudson, playing Jerry Webster, has been misleading her for two reels. Anyone who avoids seeing a Doris Day film for fear of being exposed to an overage girl scout should give this film a try. It may well change their preconceived notions. There is a reason why Day was repeatedly voted number one box-office attraction, male or female, as well as being a multiple Golden Globe Award Winner as World Film Favorite and winning the coveted Laurel Award from motion picture exhibitors as top female star for an unprecendented 8 consecutive years. Doris Day and Rock Hudson are perfect together, creating a blend that is a pure delight. They play every scene with such a sense of joie de vivre, that the audience cannot help but be caught up in the onscreen tale unfolding. Once again, Tony Randall provides outstanding support, and the remaining cast members including Edie Adams, Jack Kruschen, Jack Albertson, and Ann B. Davis, are each exceptional in their individual ways. Director Delbert Mann has stated that some scenes had to be shot a number of times due to the fact that stars Day and Hudson kept breaking up on camera, going into fits of laughter. It's apparent from the finished product that that sense of fun has been transferred directly to the finished product. "Lover Come Back" is a must see comedy treat.
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Summary: DAY AND HUDSON'S LOVELY "LOVER"
Review: The Winter of 1961-62 was a lot warmer thanks to the delightful onscreen antics of Doris Day, Rock Hudson, and Tony Randall, the triumvirate who had made a blockbuster called "Pillow Talk" a couple of years earlier. Reteamed in "Lover Come Back", they scored an even greater success this time out. Thanks to a very funny and sharp script penned by Stanley Shapiro, who won an Oscar for "Talk", and aided by Delbart Mann's smooth direction, "Lover" was the third biggest moneymaking film of 1962, right behind "That Touch of Mink", another Day/Shapiro/Mann collaboration. Seen today, "Lover Come Back" remains an uproarious comedy about the advertising trade in New York City. It's romantic, for sure, but it's also insightful, slightly satiric, and very sexy. Doris and Rock play competing advertising agents. She's professional and dedicated, he's unscrupulous, if necessary, seemingly willing to do anything to land an account. When they finally meet, he pretends to be someone else and therefore she falls in love with him. When she realizes who he really is, the romance flounders, briefly, before a "bundle of joy" brings things to a happy conclusion. Despite decades of crass comments from pundits purporting to know what they're talking about, Doris Day does not play a virgin. As in "Pillow Talk" and multiple other films, she plays a highly successful career woman who refuses to become a "notch" on some man's belt. There is never an indication that she is an "innocent", merely that she will not sleep with a man who has attempted to dupe, deceive, lie to or manipulate her. In "Lover", she offers to teach Hudson how to make love, clearly indicating that she is experienced. This fails to happen only when she realizes that Hudson, playing Jerry Webster, has been misleading her for two reels. Anyone who avoids seeing a Doris Day film for fear of being exposed to an overage girl scout should give this film a try. It may well change their preconceived notions. There is a reason why Day was repeatedly voted number one box-office attraction, male or female, as well as being a multiple Golden Globe Award Winner as World Film Favorite and winning the coveted Laurel Award from motion picture exhibitors as top female star for an unprecendented 8 consecutive years. Doris Day and Rock Hudson are perfect together, creating a blend that is a pure delight. They play every scene with such a sense of joie de vivre, that the audience cannot help but be caught up in the onscreen tale unfolding. Once again, Tony Randall provides outstanding support, and the remaining cast members including Edie Adams, Jack Kruschen, Jack Albertson, and Ann B. Davis, are each exceptional in their individual ways. Director Delbert Mann has stated that some scenes had to be shot a number of times due to the fact that stars Day and Hudson kept breaking up on camera, going into fits of laughter. It's apparent from the finished product that that sense of fun has been transferred directly to the finished product. "Lover Come Back" is a must see comedy treat.
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Summary: Great Film - Mediocre DVD
Review: This is a great, classic comedy, but the DVD version suffers somewhat. It has a sallowy, yellowish tint to it (not horribly so, but noticebly so) and is VERY fuzzy. (And I'm not talking about the shots with the glamour filters.) It is great to have this on DVD finally, but compared to some other Universal budget DVDs, this looks like it was rushed very carelessly into production. The film deserved better. 5 Star Film / 2.5 star DVD.
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Summary: Just a touch mam
Review: This is an explosive tale. Rock and Doris are rival advertising execs with different approaches to doing business. Carol Templeton (Doris) thinks Jerry Webster (Rock) is unethical in his business practices and while trying to catch him at it is also trying to steel his next account. Jerry on the other hand is just trying to catch Carol and parries her attack with the VIP girl. While he is occupied with the chase, Peter 'Pete' Ramsey proceeds to sell VIP. Things just heat up from there. My favorite part is where Tony Randall uses a moose call and gets what he wants.
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Summary: Doris and Rock together again!
Review: This movie has all the elements that made "Pillow Talk" (Doris and Rock's prior movie) succesful but enlarged. This time Doris and Rock are advertising business rivals, she the hardworker, he the playboy. When Doris goes after the account for a bogus product Rock has created he masquerades as an "innocent" scientist to get closer to her, much closer. Look out for Doris' Sutton Place apartment and dozens of ridiculously opulent costume changes. Also features Anne B. Davis (Alice on "The Brady Bunch") as Doris' secretary and Edie Adams as Rock's favorite showgirl. Tony Randall is the second male lead. I prefer this movie to "Pillow Talk." It's bigger and more confident. And the ending is much racier.
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Summary: Doris and Rock together again!
Review: This movie has all the elements that made "Pillow Talk" (Doris and Rock's prior movie) succesful but enlarged. This time Doris and Rock are advertising business rivals, she the hardworker, he the playboy. When Doris goes after the account for a bogus product Rock has created he masquerades as an "innocent" scientist to get closer to her, much closer. Look out for Doris' Sutton Place apartment and dozens of ridiculously opulent costume changes. Also features Anne B. Davis (Alice on "The Brady Bunch") as Doris' secretary and Edie Adams as Rock's favorite showgirl. Tony Randall is the second male lead. I prefer this movie to "Pillow Talk." It's bigger and more confident. And the ending is much racier.
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Summary: One of Do-Do's Funniest....
Review: This movie was one of a slew of Doris Day's movies that I saw back in the early sixties,beginning with "Pillow Talk" and ending with "Send Me No Flowers". Thank GAWD I never saw any of the ones she did with Rod Taylor back then! Whoever put HIM together with HER had a screw loose! Anyway, to get back to this film, this is definitely one of Day's most slapstick movies, with a heavy accent on commercial satire. This film was done in the classic style of romantic comedies back then....lots of cameos and supporting roles for actors familiar to movie audiences from TV, ("Schulze" from "Love that Bob" who was also "Alice" from "The Brady Bunch", Edie Adams, Jack Krutschen,) glitzy, technicolor cinematography, and a state of the art new car for the leading man. It's the usual Doris/Rock formula....Rock is the unrepentant bachelor with the little black book from [heck]; Doris is the virtuous working woman in the same field that ends up resenting him through some early negative confrontation in the movie. The writers usualy engineer their amorous encounters by keeping Rock's actual VISUAL identity a secret...Doris usually hates him sight unseen through phone contact or rumor, but they rely on Rock's charm to deceive Do-Do into ALMOST doing the deed with him, with her discovering the subterfuge only at the last minute. I'm not giving away any major plot points here, that's the way it was with ALL the Doris/Rock movies....she was always MARRIED to Jim Garner! Anyway...the film is hilarious, has Tony Randall, for ONCE, not playing a priss, and it has GREAT sight gags! If you're a fan of either Doris or want to see a ronantic comedy like they don't make anymore, first rent this movie, then buy, because I guarantee the whole family's going to love it!
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