davidallen-84122 I'm often asked which of Doris Day's movies I would most highly recommend (I've been a fan since I was seven years old).I'll stay within the years 1953 to 1963 because the only one I disliked in that period was "The Tunnel Of Love". Like most of the other reviewers,"Pillow Talk" has to be my first choice.It's hard to add anything new to the excellent,glowing reviews that precede mine but I'll try. For a start,this movie makes me chuckle to myself just thinking about it.Everything works for me,from the opening credits to the end. Doris looks gorgeous throughout and her timing and double takes are a treat.I relish the moment when she attempts to reach a compromise over the party-line problem and very reasonably suggests to 'Mr. Allen'; "we are just going to have to try living with one- another".The way she pauses,on realizing what she may have insinuated, reminds me of a similar classic moment with Clark Gable in "Teacher's Pet"(don't miss that one). Rock Hudson was obviously very much at ease with Doris,both on and off screen and his comic timing is also spot on.To quote Doris; "What a marvellous looking man". Thelma Ritter and Tony Randall are both in top form.Love the elevator man too.

Terrie Haggey I am a big fan of movies both modern and classic. I like many movies despite some uncomfortable moments due to changing times and beliefs. This movie, however, I found appalling. The plot from beginning to end, promotes rape culture. It does not matter if it is a well acted movie with famous stars, it still champions faulty ideas about how men are allowed, even encouraged to treat women. Ideas that still today mislead young men into thinking their behavior is not rape. Deceive a woman, that's OK, stalk her, that's excusable, forcibly break into her apartment and kidnap her, no problem as long as you propose. She'll fall at your feet and marry you too. Think that last one doesn't happen today? It happened here in Maine about two years ago. A troubled young man kidnapped a young woman thinking she would fall in love with him when he "rescued" her. The girl ended up dead. Perhaps remembering that event colored my opinion. I still maintain that some classic movies can be enjoyed over and over, even today. Others really need to be left in the past.

sol ***SPOILERS*** Getting constantly interrupted on her telephone party line in her job as an interior decorator Jan Morrow, Doris Day,is determined to keep the other party on the party line handsome music composer Brad Allen, Rock Hudson,off her phone while she's doing business with her customers. Brad is always on the phone with his bevy of girlfriends whom he's juggling around in that they don't know about each other and think that their the only one or one's for him and no one else. It's when Brad, while taking one of his star struck female admirers out to dinner, spots Jan and realizes who she is, the person on his party line, that he decides to work his charm and good looks on her instead of constantly being at odds with Jan. There's only one fly in the ointment in all this! Brad's good friend and who's financing his latest Broadway musicale millionaire and three time divorced Jonathan Forbes, Tony Randall, who's madly in love with Jan and want's to make her wife number four!One of the best screwball comedies of the 1950's and 1960's with the tall dark and handsome Rock Hudson, Brad Allen, trying to get the apple pie all-American girl or women, she's 35 at the time the film was made, Doris Day, Jan Morrow, in the sack with him only to find out that she's involved with his best friend Tony Randall, Jonathan Forbes. There's also a very ironic scene in the film with Hudson, as Brad Allen, using the fake name and persona of Texas oil and cattle millionaire Rex Stetson trying to convince Doris, Jan Morrow, that he, or Brad, is in fact gay or a sissy and doesn't really go for girls in the romantic and manly way of doing things. He just want's to swap recipes with them!There's also the elderly, at age 57, Thelma Ritter as Jan's maid Alma who's ability to put it, booze, away would make legendary boozers like Dean Martin and W.C Fields look like tea totalers in comparison. Elma like every other woman, young & old, in the movie just can't keep her eyes off Rock, or Brad, and ends up drinking the poor guy under the table in a boozing contest that he in fact, in not knowing what he's up against, initiated!***SPOILERS*** Utterly hilarious ending with Brad enraged in how Jan, in him making things up with her, decorated his bachelor pad by making it look like the Presidential Suite at an expensive and high class Paris or New Orleans bordello as he literally kidnaps Jan and takes her there, in her pajamas, to have fun and games with. The movie "Pillow Talk" would end up being one of the biggest money makers of 1959 and spinning off two more like wise and successful adult screwball comedies "Lover Come Back" in 1961 and "Send Me No Flowers" in 1964 reuniting Rock Hudson again with Doris day and Tony Randell as his co-stars in them.

secondtake Pillow Talk (1959)A silly comedy, not quite screwball, but clever as can be, and filled with things you sort of half expected but when they happen they are even funnier because you knew it was coming.Rock Hudson is super charming as the heterosexual stud he wasn't, in real life (his character makes a hilarious comment about gay men, the ones who like recipes etc.). Doris Day is, well, Doris Day, and if you like her phony style of acting, and being, hurrah. She only goes so far for me.The writing is smart and economical, and the writers have given the plot and terrific number of small twists, one after another, that fit together like fingers of two gloves by the end. Nicely constructed! The sets are gorgeous of course (it's 1959, widescreen, bright color), and Day's character is an interior decorator, which comes into play. New York is always a fun town on some level, and it really is charming and pretty here, as much as we see of it, reminding us why "Mad Men" works in the first place. The formal tricks of this movie are interesting (and historic) for their pushing the censorship people to the wall, even though everyone is squeaky clean in it. The split screens allow our two heroes to be in bed together, to take a bath together, and even, in their apparent nakedness, press their feet together. Totally fun.And funny. It's a joyous movie, in some unexpected way. It's lightweight--by design.