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Wednesday, January 16, 2019
















     Send Me No Flowers
1964  NR  COMEDY  1h 40min
CAST— Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Hal March, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, Patricia Barry, Clint Walker
MUSIC— De Vol  DIRECTOR— Norman Jewison  BASED ON— Send Me No Flowers (play), by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore

     Rock Hudson and Doris Day join forces yet again for this all-out laugh riot that proves laughter truly is contagious. Hudson plays a raging hypochondriac who, after misdiagnosing himself, believes his days to be numbered. Long-suffering wife Day has no clue as to his worries, yet to best friend Tony Randall he spills all. Hudson feels pity for his poor wife, who will soon be without the protection of a husband; he begins to set in motion a plan that will find a suitable husband for Day, without her knowledge or consent. This plan eventually backfires, of course; much to his horror, much to our delight. Co-starring the ever affable Paul Lynde as an over enthusiastic cemetery plot salesman; Randall’s performance as the sympathetic inebriate steals the show. Your funny bone won’t know what hit it.
OUR RATING— *** ½

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