Jan Morrow (Doris Day) is an interior decorator in “Pillow Talk,” the wildly successful movie that swept the nation in 1959. Unable to get a private phone line, she is forced to share a party line with Bradley Allen (Rock Hudson) a womanizer who has a different girl for every day of the week, and talks to them incessantly on the phone, often singing them a love song. It’s the same song every time, just with a different girl’s name inserted. He’s so busy on the line that she can’t make any of her business calls, and it’s driving her crazy. She registers a complaint with the phone company, throwing down the gauntlet of war.
Meanwhile, her boyfriend Jonathan (Tony Randall) wants her to agree to marry him, but she just isn’t in love with him. What she doesn’t know is that Jonathan is good friends with Brad Allen. When Brad finds out the name of the woman who turned him in to the phone company, he devises a plan to get even with her.
He introduces himself to her as Tex Stetson, a cowboy from Texas, prim and proper, yet manly, devoted and down-to-earth. He’s everything she could ever want, and it’s not long before she’s head over heels in love with him. He takes her away for a romantic weekend, but she discovers that he’s not really from Texas – he’s her archenemy from the phone!
She vows never to see him again, but by now he realizes he’s done for – he’s fallen in love with her too. How is he going to get her attention? It’s perfect – he hires her to redo his apartment. But he never guesses what she’ll do to it.
This movie was hysterical and had me laughing out loud on several occasions. It does have a flirtatious nature, if that’s something that concerns you. It’s not one I’d recommend as a family film, but it’s a great Mommy movie that won’t shock your children if they should catch a glimpse of it.
This film was not rated.
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