The Doris Day and Rock Hudson Comedy Collection

Hollywood screen couple Doris Day and Rock Hudson light up the screen with laughter in three delightful comedy gems! Join them as they fall in, out, and back in love again in a series of misadventures including Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back and Send Me No Flowers. Co-starring the hilarious Tony Randall, The Doris Day and Rock Hudson Comedy Collection captures one of cinema's most popular and enduring couples at their very best!

I'll pick you up at 8

Love the flirty banter between Rock and Doris. She's even cute as button when she is on "fire". Tony Randall always delivers a solid comedic supporting role. I brought these movies with me on a long family stay. My 12-year-old nephew even found them humorous. So perhaps these movies are timeless! September 12, 2008

Review

I RECENTLY ORDERED DORIS DAY/ ROCK HUDSON MOVIES OF WHICH I ENJOY. PACKAGING WAS OK BUT IN MY OPINION IT TOOK MUCH TO LONG TO RECEIVE MY ORDER,...DUE TO THIS I HAVE NOT ORDERED SINCE THEN BUT I FEEL IN TIME I WILL ORDER AGAIN.. THANK YOU August 30, 2008

It's a Treat!

I love Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back both actors Day and Hudson are at their comedic best! And I must include Tony Randall he is the the third man that makes a great comedy team. I did not enjoy Send Me No Flowers as much as the other two movies but it still was a pleasant diversion. August 25, 2008

The Doris Day and Rock Hudson Comedy Collection

We enjoyed the three movies.

Great to see Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

Loved these movies when they came out and great to see them again. August 3, 2008

Incomparable comedies of their time, now sadly neglected

(Of course, not everyone has neglected these movies. So if you're already familiar with PILLOW TALK and LOVER COME BACK, feel free to skip this paragraph.) In 1959 Ross Hunter's production of PILLOW TALK hit the screens, and in what TIME magazine called "the World Series of sex" paired Doris Day and Rock Hudson in a romantic farce in a sophisticated milieu (NYC interior decorating), based on a confusion-of-identity perpetuated by Rock's character. Miss Day was just entering the period where she was America's top movie actress, and once their respective schedules finally clicked, the duo was re-united for LOVER COME BACK in 1962. It too is set in a sophisticated milieu (NYC advertising) and the plot depends on confusion-of-identity, yada yada. But the fans loved it. I do too, because IMHO it's just as irresistible as PILLOW TALK.

Fewer people are familiar with SEND ME NO FLOWERS (1964), the third and final installment of the Day/Hudson coupling. As in the first two flicks, Tony Randall appears as the best friend, but otherwise this is a very different scenario. Set in sunny Southern California, Hudson's character is cast against type as a neurotic hypochonrdiac who mistakenly believes his death is imminent, whereupon he starts trying to fix up his wife (Day) with a suitably studly companion for after he's gone.

Enter Clint Walker, six foot seven inches of American masculinity, a financial success who drives what's probably the most uncircumsized automobile ever to come out of Great Britain: the original Jaguar XKE. There's a world of comically sexual subtext going during the first time Doris and Rock break bread with Clint: "You mean your company makes those little bitty transistors?" -- nothing to stir the censorship code still in effect but fun to decode nonetheless.

Later in the Sixties, Doris Day's then-husband Marty Melcher put her in a steadily declining series of comedy vehicles, and by the late 1960s Doris Day was no longer at the top of her profession. But SEND ME NO FLOWERS excels, even if it isn't quite in the PILLOW TALK/LOVER COME BACK stratosphere. In my opinion, getting all three movies together is the canny and cheap thing to do!

June 24, 2008

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