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Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1959 DVD Release: 04/13/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 43 mins Studio: Universal Studios Members Wishing: 18 Genres: Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Sex Comedy See Also: Pillow Talk, Pillow Talk [50th Anniversary Edition] [With Mamma Mia! Picture Frame], Pillow Talk [50th Anniversary Edition]

The fabulously successful Pillow Talk was essentially Shop Around the Corner for the 1950s. Playboy composer Rock Hudson and interior-decorator Doris Day are obliged to share a telephone party line. Naturally, their calls overlap at the least opportune times, and just as naturally, this leads to Hudson and Day despising each other without ever having met in person. In a cute but convenient coincidence, Doris' boy friend is Tony Randall, who also happens to be Hudson's best pal. Thus Hudson gets a glimpse at Day, and it's love at first sight. To avoid revealing that he's her telephone rival, Hudson poses as a wealthy Texan and turns the charm on Day. But when he starts pitching woo, Day instantly recognizes all the "make-out" lines Hudson has used on the phone with his other conquests. She gets even by decorating Hudson's apartment in a hideous manner. But Hudson loves her all the same; he "kidnaps" her, carrying her through the streets in her nightgown in full view of everyone, including a laughing cop who refuses to intervene. He praises her horrifying interior decoration job effusively, and at this point Day can't help but give in to his marriage proposal. A bit too arch and cute for modern tastes at times, Pillow Talk is still one of the best of the frothy Doris Day-Rock Hudson vehicles; it made a fortune at the box office and garnered five Oscar nominations. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Rock Hudson - Brad Allen
Doris Day - Jan Morrow
Tony Randall - Jonathan Forbes
Thelma Ritter - Alma
Nick Adams - Tony Walters

For viewers who have only seen this film in a pan-and-scan print, the Universal DVD release of Pillow Talk is essential viewing to completely understand some of the humor in the movie. The plot involves Doris Day being forced to share a phone line with sex-mad Rock Hudson, and a running joke in the movie has her character repeatedly interrupting Hudson's phone seductions with a string of interested women. During these scenes, the cropped, pan-and-scan version of the film that runs on TV and on video cuts one person off the screen, trimming three-way phone conversations into two-way ones. Not only does this DVD correct that error by returning the film to its original 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio, but the transfer looks good on standard TVs and the colors are rich and full. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono audio track sounds okay coming out of a standard TV speaker, but the sound seems oddly compressed and a few background hiss flare-ups become apparent if you feed the audio through your stereo system. The DVD doesn't come with any meaningful extras, but the excellent comedic support work from Pillow Talk's Tony Randall and Thelma Ritter should be enough to satisfy most fans of classic Hollywood comedies. ~ Nick Dedina, All Movie Guide