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Pillow Talk (1959)

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Reviews Counted: 25

Fresh: 23

Rotten:2

Average Rating: 7.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Comedies

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: Due to a shortage of telephone trunk lines, songwriter Brad Allen and interior decorator Jan Morrow are forced to share a "party line." The two take an immediate dislike to each other since Jan... Due to a shortage of telephone trunk lines, songwriter Brad Allen and interior decorator Jan Morrow are forced to share a "party line." The two take an immediate dislike to each other since Jan considers Brad a playboy who ties up the line constantly making romantic overtures to a variety of women, while Brad considers Jan a sexually frustrated prude who has nothing better to do than snoop into his private affairs. But when Brad discovers how attractive the other half of his party line is, he devises a plan to seduce her by masquerading as a virtuous Texan. [More]

Starring: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter

Starring: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Julia Meade, Allen Jenkins, Marcel Dalio

Director: Michael Gordon

Director: Michael Gordon
Screenwriter: Stanley Shapiro
Producer: Ross Hunter, Martin Melcher
Screenwriter: Maurice Richlin
Composer: Frank DeVol

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Pillow Talk is a sleekly sophisticated production that deals chiefly with s-e-x.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/28/08
Variety Staff
Variety
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The first -- and best -- of the witty, well-produced sex comedies starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

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05/28/08
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Compulsively mainstream as only 50s Hollywood could be, and never very funny.

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05/28/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

...Hudson and Day's palpable chemistry together [is] evident almost immediately...

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08/09/07
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

The first and the best of the three romantic comedies Doris Day made with Rock Hudson at Universal offers a good case of deconstructing the stars' respective screen images.

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07/25/07
Emanuel Levy
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12/26/06
Susan Granger
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It often seems complacent and shallow.

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

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10/10/05
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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07/31/05
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

Classic, if not flawless, '50s bedroom comedy.

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06/30/05
James Plath
DVDTown.com

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06/19/05
Emanuel Levy
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06/09/05
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

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02/17/05
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

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12/05/04
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies

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06/10/04
Sarah Chauncey
Reel.com

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Day is the prudish spinster forced to share a party-line with philandering Hudson in this charming sex comedy.

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07/08/03
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One of the most lively and up-to-date comedy-romances of the year.

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05/20/03
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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04/10/03
Rebecca Murray
About.com

Quintessential Hudson-Day sex comedy.

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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
 
 
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