SnoReptilePlenty
Memorable, crazy movie
AutCuddly
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Deanna
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
wes-connors
Humming in her underwear, full-figured interior decorator Doris Day (as Jan Morrow) wants to make an important telephone call, but her New York City "party line" is occupied by playboy songwriter Rock Hudson (as Brad Allen). He uses the phone to romance various women, which Ms. Day finds boorish. Day takes her concerns to the phone company, where she calls Mr. Hudson a "sex maniac." The complaint ends when handsome Hudson arouses the female investigator. Although they agree to take half hour turns, Day and Hudson continue to bicker on the phone. The adversaries have never met - in person. This changes when Hudson hears Day, seated at the next table while they are out with dates. Immediately attracted, Hudson assumes a phony Texas accent and begins to court his attractive blonde phone-mate..."Pillow Talk" was the first Rock Hudson & Doris Day comedy. Their chemistry is obvious. The co-stars appeared in two additional 1960s comedies and are among filmdom's best-loved couples. Ahead of the curve, this film is a fine example of how the seemingly "innocent" 1960s sex comedies began to push mainstream films from innuendo to explicit. Most obvious is the successful use of "split-screen" to visually put the unmarried couple in bed together. Director Michael Gordon and his crew use the technique beautifully – which is rare for split-screen. At one point, the stars touch their feet while in (separate) bathtubs. Also artful are sexually subtle scenes, like Hudson squeezing into Day's car. This genre of film often flattens when overdone - but, herein, the sex talk and situations are playful and fun...In hindsight, it is perversely ironic to see Hudson's gentleman from Texas suggested as possibly homosexual because he adores his mother, exchanges recipes and enjoys gossip. The "gay jokes" often drag down these films (the next Hudson-Day outing, for example), but they are not fatal, here. It is amusing, for example, when Hudson is thought to be pregnant. A bigger problem is the light-hearted treatment given Thelma Ritter's character - a meaningless and hopeless alcoholic. Day should either fire or get help for her maid "Anna" - Ms. Ritter plays the part well, however. She and Tony Randall's millionaire pal "Jonathan Forbes" were acclaimed among the best supporting characterizations of the year. Frank DeVol's soundtrack music is perfect and Day's "Pillow Talk" title song is one of her best.******** Pillow Talk (10/6/59) Michael Gordon ~ Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter
lancekoz55-1
I am not usually charmed by Classic Hollywood rom-coms, but this one has enough fun elements, pleasing sets, costumes and characters to keep me returning as a nice guilty pleasure for a rainy afternoon. Sexist and with some definite pointless plot motivations, still the charm of the clueless Hudson and the determined but gullible Day make it through. Also, there's enough of a fun feel of NY City and fashion in the Sixties that there's plenty of eye-candy for a fan of retro-design like myself. The addition of Tony Randall and his quips are quite funny too. Like I said, I find many of the other Hollywood 'romances' of this era get tedious and have dreary scripts where long scenes are acted out in one room (more like a radio play). This is a cinematic step above that.
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.
SimonJack
"Pillow Talk" had many things going for it to make it the hit it was in 1959. And, those same things are what keep it a big success with modern viewers, 50 years later. They'll likely keep it near the top of the heap in the future, especially in the comedy-romance field. After a few decades of comedy-romances with very similar plots – although many were quite funny and good – Hollywood began to put out more original comedy plots in the 1950s. PT was one of those. It won the Oscar that year for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay—Written Directly for the Screen. The plot was simple and not hard to follow. Indeed, part of the enjoyment is in seeing how it unfolds as we are led from one scene to the next. And, then we can catch the one-liners and zingers that bring out the long bursts of laughter. I say bursts, because even after seeing this movie a few times, I still laugh so hard in places that I miss many subsequent lines and have to go back to resume the film (of course, we couldn't do that in the theater original, or when viewing it live on TV). PT is a classic comedy-romance that should endure through the ages. All of the cast give top performances, the directing is superb, and the sets and scenes are spot-on. With all of this, the witty writing and dialog delivery stand out and provide the real punch. One must see the film to appreciate the expressions of Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter or the nurse and doctor, with delivery of so many laughter lines. Here's just a small sample of laughter starters: Hudson to Day: "We have a saying back in Texas, ma'am — 'Never drink anything stronger than you are, or older.'" Hudson to Day, on his warm feeling around her: "It's like being around a pot-bellied stove on a frosty mornin'." Day, when the phone company sends a woman agent to check a complaint against Hudson: "It's like sending a marshmallow to put out a bonfire." Randall to Day: "And even the air out there (in Texas), there's nothing in it but air. In New York you've got air you can sink your teeth into. It has character." Randall: "I don't know how fast he works, but it takes an early bird to get the best of a worm like me."Randall to Hudson: "You love her and she can't stand the sight of you. Heh, heh, heh. It's wonderful." Hudson: "Jonathan, how do I get her back?" Randall: "You don't. That's the beauty of it. You suffer and I watch." Randall, seeing a photo from his private investigator: "Why, this is my best friend." Private eye: "Yep. They're usually the ones."
