Latest 6 Reviews Here is what people are saying about the The Pajama Game
"special fun"
2009-04-19
- Reviewed By User: A2Q7MC5EPI2OO4
Seeing this again was just a lot of fun. Had not watched this in the movies, just on TV. It was like watching it for the first time, and all the songs came to life now with the story. Doris Day and John Raitt made this movie fun. The songs are memorable for me as I heard them when I was growing up, especially Hernando's Hideaway. Its a classic to watch that song being done and not just heard.
"Two Can Sleep As Cheap As One: A 1950s Musical Knock Out"
Many viewers approach the THE PAJAMA GAME as a Doris Day musical--and then walk away disappointed, for the film was not designed to be a Day vehicle but a somewhat tweaked film version of one of Broadway's most popular plays. Sid (John Raitt), a new supervisor at the Sleep-Tite pajama factory, both falls in love with and runs afoul of Babe (Day), a union leader in a work force preparing to strike over a seven and a half cent hourly wage. Both Raitt and Day give excellent performances, with this one of Raitt's very few screen performances. Even so, it is not really Raitt and Day who make THE PAJAMA GAME a knock out. It's the ensemble cast and a young choreographer who puts a fresh spin on the dance numbers: Bob Fosse.
Carol Haney was a major figure in Gene Kelly's artistic support staff at MGM, but although she appeared as a dancer in several MGM films she never attracted serious attention until she appeared as Gladys, a nutty secretary, in the Broadway production of PAJAMA GAME. A perfect dancer for Fosse's gradually emerging style, she led two of the play's most memorable song and dance numbers, "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway," both of which transfer to film with tremendous flair. Haney's career would be short; she would never make another film and died about a decade later. Even so, as long as film rolls she will be praised for her work here, which is truly magnificient.
Other notables in the cast include Eddie Foy Jr., Haney's knife-throwing and jealous boyfriend; Reta Shaw, a secretary who teams with Foy for a truly hilarious "I'll Never Be Jealous Again;" and a dozen or so more cameo and bit players, dancers and singers who attack the material with amazing zest. The sets are perfect; the lighting flawless; and every detail is exceptional, with the highly mobile camera more of a co-star than photographic device. Fosse's choreography is sharp, powerful, and stylish, with "Steam Heat" a harbinger of things to come. THE PAJAMA GAME is a musical comedy that really is both musical and comedy, sharp, zippy, and lots of fun. Strongly recommended.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
"Pajama Game- Musical Lover"
2008-09-20
- Reviewed By User: A2DAE35E98EG4Z
I am a lover of Musicals and Pajama Game has one of the highest energy and great music as most of the musicals of that time. I think anyone who is an "oldtime" musical lover would enjoy this musical as well as any high school theater teacher looking for a musical suitable to perform.
"Great Entertainment"
2008-07-29
- Reviewed By User: A3ELD6F46Y5WED
Overall I am not a Doris Day Fan but I bought this because of John Raitt who as far as I know made no other films. The music and dance was great, and I am sorry that this quality of musical productions have not been continued. During the past few months I have purchased some hundreds of dollars of musicals. Some I would not keep in my library but this one I most certainly will.
This is a double-sided DVD, with the 3:4 version on one side (with the left and right sides of the picture chopped off, as you would expect) and the 16:9 (widescreen) version on the other. To make the widescreen version completely fill a 16:9 HDTV display, they chopped off the top and bottom of the frame. Arrgh. It would be nice for the next release (Blu-Ray?) to show the movie as originally shown, without anything cropped out. Which would leave modest bars on the left and the right.
Not bad for Doris in a Musical Under $2. Alot of fun for a little price! Worth the look. Or if you want to be real cheap see if your library owns a copy!
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