Production Year: 1959 - Comedy - Director: Michael Gordon - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Marcel Dalio more
The first Rock Hudson/Doris Day movie tells the story of an odd couple who share a party line, eventually falling in love in spite of themselves. He's a womanizing cad, and she's a... more
Pillow Talk [DVD] [1959]
Jan Morrow (Doris Day) and Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) have never met, but they're sworn ... more
enemies because of one small appliance in their lives: the telephone. The two share a party line, and Jan is outraged overthe amount of time Bill spends wooing women ...
Pillow Talk [DVD] [1959]
Jan Morrow (Doris Day) and Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) have never met, but they're sworn ... more
enemies because of one small appliance in their lives: the telephone. The two share a party line, and Jan is outraged overthe amount of time Bill spends wooing women ...
Pillow Talk DVD
Day is an uptight interior decorator forced to share a party line with an amorous playboy ... more
who ties up the line with his exploits while she is trying to conduct business. When the two accidentally meet he's taken with her beauty and pretending to be a...
night radio show or the big match? The ROBERTS PillowTalk could be just the ticket! The PillowTalk is basically a speaker on a wire that you tuck under your pillow. It enables you to listen to the radio without disturbing your partner. You can even go to bed learning a different language or listening to your favourite audio book. The unit is about the same size as a large pair of earphones and is suitable for any radio, radio cassette, clock radio, iPod/MP3 player or other equipment fitted with a 3.5mm headphone socket.
Pillow Talk
The uninhibited story of a carefree bachelor and a carefree career girl and the hilarious ... more
things that happen when they tangle. Rock Hudson is Brad Allen, a songwriter and notorious playboy. Doris Day is Jan Morrow, a pert interior decorator.Together they share a party line over which they develop an intense dislike for one another. But when Brad eventually matches Jan's voice to her face and figure, the events that follow in this uproarious romantic comedy succeed in giving new meaning to the phrase All's fair in love and war.This first teaming of Rock Hudson and Doris Day won an Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay (1960)
Pillow Talk
The uninhibited story of a carefree bachelor and a carefree career girl and the hilarious ... more
things that happen when they tangle. Rock Hudson is Brad Allen, a songwriter and notorious playboy. Doris Day is Jan Morrow, a pert interior decorator. Together they share a party line over which they develop an intense dislike for one another. But when Brad eventually matches Jan's voice to her face and figure, the events that follow in this uproarious romantic comedy succeed in giving new meaning to the phrase All's fair in love and war.
Pillow Talk
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Petra Flint and Arlo Savidge were teenage sweethearts in a chaste old-fashioned way. They never really told each other how they felt. Now years later Petra is a jeweller by day but by night she is a sleepwalker never fully able to rest. Arlo is living in North Yorkshire teaching at an eccentric boys' boarding school. Like Petra he carries with him something that makes it hard to sleep at night. In an ice-cream shop one rainy day Arlo and Petra stand before each other once again. Is this their second chance? Isn't old gold as good as new? However for love to blossom they must finally put their pasts to bed. A past Petra can't quite remember. A past Arlo wants to forget.
Pillow Talk
A story of first love and second chances from the bestselling author of Love Rules The ... more
sleepwalker. By day Petra Flint is a talented jeweller working in a lively London studio. By night she sleepwalks. She has 40 carats of the world's rarest gemstone under her mattress but it's the skeletons in her closet that make it difficult for her to rest. The insomniac. At one time a promising song-writer Arlo Savidge now teaches music at a boys' boarding school in North Yorkshire. He assumes he's happy with his isolated lifestyle. But like Petra ghosts from his past disturb his sleep. Putting the past to bed. Petra and Arlo loved each other from afar during their schooldays. Now seventeen years later in a tiny sweetshop one rainy day they stand before each other once more. Could this be their second chance?
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A review by CaptainDisaster on Pillow Talk (DVD) March 13th, 2006
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Loved it
Story
Good
Characters / Performances
Outstanding
Special Effects
Standard
How does it compare to similar films?
Outstanding
Advantages:
Cast, script, most things really
Disadvantages:
A bit slow at times
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
Pillow Talk is a wonderful romantic comedy which has hardly aged a bit in the decades since its release. Remade a couple of years ago into the excellent Down With Love, this one can still hold its head up high (and though I personally still like the latter film more, I know that many prefer the original.)
Jan Morrow (Doris Day) is a highly successful career woman, who is unfortunate in that she has to share a party phone line with playboy Brad Allen (Rock Hudson). The phone company is working hard to give everybody their own individual lines, but no-nobody other than Jan herself considers his constant wooing of different women over the phone to be a problem. The phone company do actually send over an inspector after Jan makes a complaint, but since the inspector is a woman… well, she doesn't see any problem with him whatsoever!
Jan's work as an interior designer sees her brush shoulders with many rich and influential men, including Jonathon Forbes (Tony Randall)- who's been married several times before so thinks he should be good at it by now, and so wants Jan to marry him - and he's also friends with Brad. So when Brad works out that his party line opponent is actually quite a babe, he adopts a persona to start dating her, without her knowing who he is and without Jonathon knowing what's going on - predictably a recipe for disaster. Add into the mix Alma (Thelma Ritter), and elderly friend and housemaid of Jan's who thinks Brad (over the phone) is adorable (and thinks the lift operator is too fast due to her constant hangover), a very judgemental jazz singer / pianist, and a few other inconsequential oddballs, and you have a really big disaster waiting to happen.
All in all, Pillow Talk is an extremely enjoyable film thanks to a witty script and an enthusiastic cast. Hudson and Day are terrific whether sparring or wooing, and their phone encounters contain some sparkling dialogue. Tony Randall as the rich wannabe husband who can't understand is very funny, particularly when taking great delight in Brad's failures (though he does turn out to be sort of a good friend in the end!) His performance is not all that dissimilar to David Hyde Pierce's in Down With Love, though the characters are very different. Thelma Ritter is great in her role, and none of the supporting cast disappoint. The musical score works well and though there's not really much in the way of special effects (apart from the split-screen effects so popular in the fifties!), this doesn't detract from the film and some of the sets are wonderful. Some are not so wonderful, but that's intentional - watch the film and you'll see what I mean!
There's really not much wrong with any aspect of the film, but in a few scenes I did feel it slowed down too much, and thus had quite long gaps without any real laughs. Altogether though hugely enjoyable, very funny, and probably one of the few romantic comedies that even people who don't like romcoms will enjoy. It is also, (unlike Down With Love with has rather a lot of innuendo) real family viewing.
Other Info
Director: Michael Gordon Screenplay: Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin Year of release: 1959 Runtime: 98 minutes Rating: PG
Quotes
Jan: Officer, arrest this man - he's taking me up to his apartment! Police Officer: Well, I can't say that I blame him, miss.
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Brad Allen: Look, I don't know what's bothering you, but don't take your bedroom problems out on me. Jan: I have no bedroom problems. There's nothing in my bedroom that bothers me. Brad Allen: Oh-h-h-h. That's too bad.
(Ok so there is some innuendo!)
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[Jan and Brad are on the phone discussing a phone schedule.] Jan: We're just going to have to live with each other... [Jan pauses, waiting for a response] Brad Allen: Well? Jan: I was waiting for you to say some off-color remark. Brad Allen: Is that all you have on your mind? Jan: Never mind my mind! You just stick to your half hour and I'll stick to mine!
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[Trying to convince Alma she loves living alone.] Jan: Well, what am I missing? Alma: If you have to ask, you're missing it!
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DVD Extras ----------------
These are a little thin on the ground for those that like such things - you just have the original theatrical trailer. Languages are quite well supported though - the soundtrack is available in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish (Castellano), with subtitles also being available in those languages and Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish. The menu screen is available in 8 languages - English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, and Russian. The film is presented in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen format and is good quality, very clear for such an old film.
While I'm rating it 5 stars because really it's only the film that I'm interested and I didn't pay a lot for it, take a star off the rating if you like lots of extra featurettes.
Availablity
I got my copy from Aldi for the princely sum of £4.99. Amazon have it for £6.97 and Play.com for £5.99
Advantages: takes you to a fantasy world Disadvantages: none that i can think of really
...tall, dark and handsome.
Pillow Talk is on of my faves with Doris Day and the delectable Rock Hudson (6ft 6in of oppurtunity doesnt come along often on of the lines i the film).
the story is about a interior designer who shares a phone line with a song writer who is a carefree bachelor who has a differnet woman for every hour of the day, who in a chance meeting after having clashed on the phone realises that he would like to get to know the other ... ...that if she knew who he was he comes up with an alter ego to win her over.
As the film goes on you get to know more about all the characters in the film from Rock Hudson's Brad Allen and his alter ego Rex Stetson and Doris Day's Jan Morrow.
Also I would recommend looking out for Jan Morrows maid Alma this is a great character and you also get to see her have a little romance in her life to.
This is a great film about a carefree bachelor who stays ...
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Plot: PILLOW TALK tells the story of an odd couple who share a party line, eventually falling in love in spite of themselves. He's a womanising cad, and she's a perky career gal with uncompromising moral standards and fine home furnishings.
DVD Description
The first Rock Hudson/Doris Day movie tells the story of an odd couple who share a party line, eventually falling in love in spite of themselves. He's a womanizing cad, and she's a perky career gal with uncompromising moral standards and fine home furnishings.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS
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