
Effortless Entertainment
Review created: 07/10/08(updated 08/03/08)
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These three movies starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson are classic farces of a kind no longer made. Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back involve mistaken identities and the battle of the sexes. He wants sex, she wants marriage, in the end they both get what they what (she wins). Funny situations, funny dialogue, clean humor, with a little "naughtiness" or risque element, a snapshot of America trembling on the brink of sexual liberation where there would be no more wink, wink, or nudge nudge because it was all out there. He tries to trick here into bed, the trick being necessary because she is a "nice" girl. Whether that was better or worse than our current situation, I can't say (yes, I know he was gay). I can say the movies are very funny. The two had fantastic chemistry. What a handsome man he was (yes, I know he was gay). In Send me no flowers, they are a married couple with a hypochondriac Rock Hudson who imagines he is dying. He is so tall and strapping you wouldn't think it would work, but it does. The contrast between his glowing physicality and his fears and tremors make it all the more funny. Tony Randall is also present in all three. In the first two, he plays the neurotic bachelor who frequently refers to his therapist and of course loses Doris Day to the more masculine man (yes, I know Rock was gay). In the last one, he is the grieving best friend. Randall was the perfect chronicler of late fifties early sixties urban angst and also very funny. The only downside is that they only made three movies.
Doris Day is great too.
Review ID: 10000000007928090

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