I'm not a particular fan of either Doris Day or Rock Hudson, but I couldn't resist Pillow Talk's premise - during a phone line outage, they are forced to share a party line, and hate each other, but the Hudson sees her, and adopts a Texan identity to romance her. Well, it's amusing enough, even if you can only go so far smiling at Hudson's caddish persona, and even "sexied up", Day fails to get a rise from me. There's a good "Much Ado" vibe coming from the movie in general, with some gentle pushing at the limits of what can actually be said, though Tony Randall's character was probably the funniest of the lot. There's a stupid subplot about a doctor believing Hudson is pregnant that needs to be trimmed out, however. One scene that plays differently today is the one where you can sort of see Hudson's eyes sparkle when he suggests his other self might be gay - a homophobic moment, as written, but the sting is possibly taken out of it with what we know today. In fact, the whole affair is mostly harmless despite being about men behaving badly, thanks to the friendly chemistry between the leads.
Look at that. New York! People jostling, shoving, flailing for their lives. You're part of it. In Texas there's nothing but a bunch of prairie dogs and stuff. Even the air is nothing but air. You can feel the air in New York. It's got character.
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IreneAdler
I found it very sweet and funny!Tarris1
Silly, but great fun. Set designs and the colors are absolutely gorgeousredambergreen21
When I wasn't smiling I was laughing. A very silly but very funny film.chunkylefunga
Funny enough movie from the 50s.Though it's treatment of women is now severely dated and it's such a shame to see Roc having to criticise gay men because of the era.
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The original Catfish?RababAlsahlawi
love it, it really hard now a days to find something this funny and this romantic :))Siskoid
I'm not a particular fan of either Doris Day or Rock Hudson, but I couldn't resist Pillow Talk's premise - during a phone line outage, they are forced to share a party line, and hate each other, but the Hudson sees her, and adopts a Texan identity to romance her. Well, it's amusing enough, even if you can only go so far smiling at Hudson's caddish persona, and even "sexied up", Day fails to get a rise from me. There's a good "Much Ado" vibe coming from the movie in general, with some gentle pushing at the limits of what can actually be said, though Tony Randall's character was probably the funniest of the lot. There's a stupid subplot about a doctor believing Hudson is pregnant that needs to be trimmed out, however. One scene that plays differently today is the one where you can sort of see Hudson's eyes sparkle when he suggests his other self might be gay - a homophobic moment, as written, but the sting is possibly taken out of it with what we know today. In fact, the whole affair is mostly harmless despite being about men behaving badly, thanks to the friendly chemistry between the leads.Emiliefe
So funny and romantic. I just loved it!sqcat
Look at that. New York! People jostling, shoving, flailing for their lives. You're part of it. In Texas there's nothing but a bunch of prairie dogs and stuff. Even the air is nothing but air. You can feel the air in New York. It's got character.halcain
timeless.