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Fantastic!

Excellent but underrated film

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Lover Come Back (1961): Dir: Delbert Mann / Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Kruschen: Side splitting romantic comedy about opposites attract that presents a clever and hilarious third act. Rock Hudson plays Jerry Webster whom Carol Tempelton, played by Doris Day desires to expose when a product called VIP is commercialized. She doesn't believe the product exists and sets out to expose him. Unfortunately she has never met him, which sets a meet cute where he poises as someone else and manipulates her into presenting counter ideas. Director Delbert Mann won acclaim with Marty, but here he takes a simple plot and tired formula and presents it as surprisingly fresh. Hudson is slick as Webster, a womanizer who romances his way to the top, and Day is the perfect counter and foil being duped into his ploys. Whether they eventually fall in love is an after thought as to the weird events that land them both in an elevator with one on a gurney after a product worked too well. Tony Randall plays the business president who feels evaporated into Hudson's scheme and ends up a victim. Edie Adams is too brief as a would be actress convinced to testify for Webster when offered to do VIP commercials. Jack Kruschen plays a chemist whom is bribed to come up with a marketable product. It all arrives at the reality that both genders can be equally played. Score: 8 / 10

Lover Come Back is a movie that baby boomers will enjoy as well as a good movie for the family with children 7 and up. This movie is best enjoyed in the afternoon or possibly early evening for some light hearted fun. Doris Day and Rock Hudson work magic. Tony Randall, Joe Flynn, and Ann B. Davis all are good actors and comedians. I love seeing them all. I've seen this movie so many ties that I watch now the first 5 minutes and then the last seven. I still get a kick out of the movie. In a day or two, it is easily forgotten but the feeling that the movie gives me still lingers a bit longer. Grab you popcorn bowls and enjoy this movie with friends or by yourself.

Witless, belabored comedy with a distractingly soft focus Doris Day outfitted in terrible hats. With dreary grayish blue set design, and a supporting cast made up of recognizable TV regulars, it plays like a dull sitcom. An obvious retread of Pillow Tak that lacks charm and sprightliness. The situations and characters are basically uninteresting and you'll find it hard to believe that the script for this laugh deficient film was nominated for an Oscar. It's one-note and repetitious. Hudson's is inoffensively dull and Day is up to her usual tired tricks:wide eyed surprise and exasperation. Not a fan of either performer though this seems like the dullest of their film pairings.

Even if I didn't like these kinds of comedies already, how can you not like one with Jack Kruschen as a comical mad scientist? One of the best parts is the sort of self-parody Doris Day does in the strip club scene and afterwards - "Will you please put that away?" And one of the more surprising ones is Rock Hudson's very innocent line about being slipped a "funny" cigarette with "no printing on the paper." It isn't an unheard-of subject in early ' 60s comedies, but you don't exactly expect it in one of THESE - Doris Day and a marijuana joke?! I only have one real problem with it. I don't always like those comedies (or dramas) with characters whose job it is to TELL the audience something, sometimes right to the camera in a "Greek Chorus" way and sometimes not, and sometimes things the audience can see perfectly well for themselves! Nothing against Jack Albertson, but I never see the point of those two tourists who keep popping up to comment on the Jerry character's wild personal life. I mean, you already have Doris Day doing that in one way, and Tony Randall doing it in ANOTHER way, so do you really need these extra characters doing the same thing?