Pillow Talk (1959)

Lack of good storyline.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

At the end scene where Rock Hudson's character picked up Doris Day to bring her to the house she did up for him and that he would want her to have it as his wife, it was hilarious! However its strange love really because no one in the world would do that to their lover haha! Doris Day was a very big woman to be carrying like Hudson had to use those supporting things to carry her and I bet it broke his back!I even liked the scene where the housekeeper who is an alcoholic, brought Hudson's character to a bar she likes and got him drunk. Then the next day, he was wondering why his hair was sore, sure it was her pulling his head by trying to tell how to get Doris Day's character.Seriously this movie is such a laugh and just wonderful. I give it 8/10!

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

I love this movie because of its unique plot, but I love it more for the stunning opulence. When most of the world were still living in dreary shacks and gray concrete buildings, America was already modern as it is today. The buildings seen in this movie would be a good architecture of a brand new building even today.But some parts of the society seems like it wasn't keeping up with the rapid modernization. Who's ever heard of a "Party Line" ? I guess people had to share a phone number because the telephone companies (or company at the time - Bell Telephone) couldn't provide as many individual phone numbers. I sure didn't hear about anything like this until I saw this movie.When people around the world saw this movie, they thought American girls were like Doris Day. It's not true, but the image stuck. And what a hunk Rock Hudson was.Everything about this movie is just beautiful. What ever happened to this glamorous society ? We're certainly living at a lower point of the curve than what's shown in this movie.A beautiful movie, that I love every part of. I wish we can go back to those times again.

***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.