Okay, I do disagree with everyone about this movie. I didn't care for it at all but that aside, the doctor has a phone in his car! Can anyone explain that one to me? Fred MacMurray goes into the phone booth (while holding Christy in the adjacent one) and places a call to the doctor on the Pacific Coast Highway and in the next scene we see the doctor pick up a full sized phone and talk on it.
shareMobile telephones existed in the 1950s.They worked much like a walkie talkie,with radio waves to a recieving tower (a lot like cell phones) to a landline network.They had little coverage and were very expensive to obtain a service.Mainly doctors,lawyers and newspaper personell were the only ones to have them.Perry White is seen having one in the Adventures of Superman TV series.Largely it was in metro areas (NY,California) where the service was offered.At the time it must have seemed like a space age miracle to have one.Compared to the frivelous chit chat on cell phones,talk back then was business or emergency use only.
And that Eleanor Parker in the film was very dishy...great voice too.
Actually, I don't care for it either. I like a good screwball comedy, but the constant misunderstandings in this film, and the "yammering on" by characters, create a difficult experience to sit through.
shareI didn't like the misunderstandings either. I don't know how long it took Parker's character to finally make MacMurray's see reason as I turned it off once they got lost on the beach in the fog, but how hard is it to say "Just take me back to your apartment where I left the documents to prove what I am saying"? I know there would be no movie without this premise, but it's a sucky premise to start with. Parker is lovely as usual but I was repulsed by the little I saw of Fred's character
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