A Doris Day-Rock Hudson movie
The script to this movie could have easily been written for Doris Day and Rock Hudson.
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Yes, it could have...it reminded me of a Doris Day and Rock Hudson movie. Plus, Tony Randall would have fit perfectly into the Donald O'Connor role. Sometimes it almost seemed to me that Sandra Dee was trying to imitate Doris Day in the way she acted. I like Sandra Dee a lot, but I like Doris Day more and I think Doris has something special about her that she would have been able to bring to this movie and I would have been curious to see how the movie would have been.
"New York, this is your last chance."
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You're right, this is the exact same type of innuendo script that Day/Hudson did, but there are some differences: 1: This is a good movie. 2: This movie is funny. 3: This movie is far more x-rated than anything Day ever did. That helps it retain its shock value even today and thus this movie works better at this modern time than do those Day/Hudson comedies that seem sooo juvenile by now. 4: This movie features a lot of bit parts with known actors that help carry the movie.
A large portion of what makes this type of movie work is shock value. But at this modern time, what we see on prime-time TV every night of the week would have gotten a 1965 director put into jail, thus it's hard for a 1965 movie to still carry any shock value and that hurts these movies. However this one is really out there. Two obvious examples are the vacuum cleaner joke and the phone booth joke.
Oh great, now I've got to go back and look for the vacuum cleaner joke and the phone booth joke.
Tabby S.
If you're a girl, you won't get the vacuum cleaner joke. You'll have to ask several male friends but you won't believe it when they tell you. For more insight on the phone booth joke, listen to the song "It's me again, Margaret" by Ray Stevens.
If you're a girl, you won't get the vacuum cleaner joke.
Shirley you jest! lol But seriously, I think most girls today *would* get the vacuum cleaner joke. If not, they have no imagination whatsoever, or have led a very sheltered life. lol
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I'm a 51 year old guy and I've lived far from a sheltered life, but even I've only been "exposed" (a little shock joke for you there) to the vacuum cleaner subject material exactly once in my life.
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