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Sometime in the mid to late sixties, Doris Day got saddled with the “Oldest Living Virgin” label, something which seemed somewhat a propos considering her squeaky clean, almost asexual screen persona. Day was always the girl next door, even when she traversed in unusual territory like Julie or the 1956 Hitchcock remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much. With her slightly raspy voice and inherently sweet disposition, Day was the Eisenhower Era’s answer to Marilyn Monroe, another stunningly beautiful blonde that you wouldn’t be worried about bringing home to meet Mom. This generic labeling of Day often underestimates her real skill as an actress. She was never showy, and she frankly never really was cast in anything totally demanding, but she always managed to perfectly capture the flavor of whatever film she was in, whether that was the growing hysteria of the mother in the Hitchcock opus or, perhaps more memorably, her lighter than air comedy pairings with the likes of Rock Hudson and James Garner in the late fifties and early sixties. Day excelled at these fluffy comedy films, and the fact is she is sexy in them, in her own down home, unpretentious way. Day probably had no finer showcase in this genre than the film that rather improbably brought her her only Oscar nomination for Best Actress, the fondly remembered 1959 Ross Hunter quasi-farce Pillow Talk. Day had begun her film career in some middling musicals which hoped to capitalize on her immense popularity as a vocalist, but by the mid-fifties she had started stretching out, at least a little, including in what might arguably called her finest performance (and one perhaps more deserving of Academy recognition than Pillow Talk), that of Ruth Etting in the biopic Love Me or Leave Me (which did receive an Oscar nomination for Day’s frequent Columbia records music director, Percy Faith, who arranged the music for the film). But the late fifties saw Day shift almost exclusively to breezy comedy fare, and it seemed to suit her to a tee, at least based upon the then stellar box office receipts of Pillow Talk, a film which became something of a pop cultural sensation when it was released in 1959.

Pillow Talk.1959.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 42 min
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#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary with Film Historians Jeff Bond, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman)

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Russian

The post Michael Gordon – Pillow Talk (1959) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The movie is based on a novel called The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney about a mysterious, elderly Chinese gentleman who brings a rather unusual circus to a small Western town at the turn of the 20th century. The film opens as Dr. Lao (Tony Randall) rides into the town of Abalone on a donkey, pausing just long enough to light his pipe with a flame that sprouts from his thumb. He ignores the initial mockery of the locals and visits the newspaper office to place an advertisement about his circus coming to town. While there he overhears a conversation between the profiteering town bully, Clint Stark (Arthur O’Connell), and the plucky newspaper editor Edward Cunningham (John Ericson). Stark plans to buy out everyone in town for sinister (and capitalistic) purposes, and Ed is determined to prevent just that from happening. While the power struggle is established over the next 30 minutes, we are introduced to the rest of the cast including the widowed librarian, Angela Benedict (Barbara Eden), and a bevy of colorful town characters. Meanwhile, Dr. Lao has set up his circus just outside of town, where he will change the lives of the townsfolk forever.

1.53GB | 1h 39m | 853×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9C6330D193E1CA3/7.Faces.of.Dr.Lao.1964.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English,French

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The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials. The first victim is A.A. the second B.B. and so on. Poirot is assisted in his investigations by Captain Hastings and Inspector Japp. Written by Mike Hatchett

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Language(s):English

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