The Thrill of It All | | Cast : | Doris Day, James Garner | | Director : | Norman Jewison | | Studio : | Universal Studios Ho | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | July 17, 1963 | | DVD Released Date : | February 04, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | NR (Not Rated) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 13, 2005 | | Summary | Funny blend of sophisticated humor with slapstick. | Content
 | The Thrill of it All is relatively funny for an early 1960s comedy, perhaps not one of Doris Days best in every sense, but certainly one of her funniest. The movie pokes fun at TV commercials. Doris Day plays a housewife hired to advertise Happy Soap because of her sincerity. She ends up with a year-long contract and various related funny entanglements. It means lots of money, but also problems, worstly the effect on her marriage. Husband James Garner (Maverick, Cash McCall) is out to get even, providing one of the more originally funny aspects of the film as he f
air. There's a good blend of slapstick with the more sophisticated humor, due to the screenplay by Carl Reiner (Your Show of Shows, Dick Van Dyke, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), who also appears as an actor playing 2 or 3 funny characters on the TV show sponsored by Day's soap commercials. The supporting cast also includes Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews (16 Candles), Reginald Owen, and Zasu Pitts. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | Very Charming! | Content
| I like Doris Day movies and The Thrill of it All is one of my favorites and is at a tie with Pillow Talk as my favorite of her movies. I have the movies at a tie because I can't decide which one I like better. Anyway The Thrill of it All is a funny and charming movie and Doris Day shines and James Garner is also very good as her husband. Yes his character is kind of chauvenistic in his attitude about wanting his wife to stay at home and not have a job but despite that the movie is still very good and is just a delight to watch! BTW: The child actors, Brian Nash and Kym Kareth who play their children were absolutley adorable! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 16, 2005 | | Summary | Doris Day's Best Work | Content
| This is absolutely her best work. With her comic genius of perfect timing and expression, she is coupled with James Garner who is also extremely talented in this regard. As a mother, doctor's wife, and newly discovered slightly klutzy commercial (soap products) star, this is the perfect scenario/blend for the hilarious antics. Add in fun elements like home bottled ketsup and a zany housekeeper, and you have the exact formula for hilarity. My sides ache from laughter each time I watch this, and even my kids love it. It is timeless and absolutely Doris Day's best work. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 26, 2005 | | Summary | Day, Reiner, Gelbart and Jewison Sharpen Advertising Satire | Content
| It's no coincidence that this 1963 Doris Day comedy is among one of her smarter concoctions since it has such a strong pedigree - Norman Jewison directed, and the screenwriters were Larry Gelbart and Carl Reiner. In fact, there are traces of Reiner's smart-funny "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in the domestic scenes here with Day and James Garner playing a credible, attractive suburban couple. The fact that the film seems rather chauvinist today just adds to its now rather antiquated charm, as the story revolves around the aptly named Beverly Boyer, a housewife who gets hired as a TV commercial pitchwoman for a soap company much to the chagrin of her obstetrician husband who wants her home with the kids. This concept is tethered to the contrived notion that a fiftyish woman (played by the always sophisticated Arlene Francis) is pregnant, Garner is her dutiful doctor, and her aged father is the blustery founder of the soap company who loves Beverly's homey way of talking about her children.
It's somewhat ironic that Day, who epitomized the mid-century working woman in "Teacher's Pet", "Pillow Talk" and "Lover Come Back", would be playing such an ordinary domestic role here, but I still believe she is among the most underrated of screen actresses. She parlays her underlying intelligence and down-to-earth sensibilities into such likable characters that she makes the silly faux-real Happy Soap commercials quite amusing. Look at the contrived performance of Renée Zellweger in the atrociously over-the-top "Down With Love" as a valid point of comparison. A young, granite-jawed Garner is solid though on the dull side as her frustrated husband who tires of his wife's growing celebrity. Unlike Day's forays with Rock Hudson, this one places Garner's character in a more decidedly secondary role. The funniest scenes relate to the still-sharp jabs at the 1960's Madison Avenue advertising mindset, comparing favorably to Day's other anti-advertising satire, "Lover Come Back". It all ends predictably with Edward Andrews the comic standout as Francis' frantic husband. Definitely one of Day's better films. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 21, 2004 | | Summary | Some classic moments, but overall a bit dull | Content
| I remember really enjoying this film aas a young child. Funnily enough only for the scenes which I consider now "classic moments". These include James Garner driving into the pool, the soap suds in the back yard, and DOris Day's first day on the job as the Soap model.
However, the overall film is quite dull and I can see why it is not one of Doris's most famous films. When people think of a Doris film, they think of "Pillow Talk". It's rare to find folks that remember this movie.
It's nice to see the film again after all the years, but it did drag ... |
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