Hitchcoc Rock Hudson plays a hypochondriac who jumps to the conclusion that he has two weeks too live. His wife, played by Doris Day, is comfortable with her husbands lunatic medical assessments and sits back as Hudson goes about finding a new husband for her. This is a comedy of errors with the likes of Paul Lynde and Tony Randall weighing in and confusing everything. Clint Walker, a really good TV Western star of the time, is the chosen paramour. With everything thinking something different and forging ahead (or not), it becomes a delightful romp. I was in high school in the sixties and found most comedy pretty lame, but I got a big kick out of this one. Of course, we all had a thing for Doris Day.

SimonJack "Send Me No Flowers" is the third smash hit Universal had with Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall in a comedy romance. And, like the second film, "Lover Come Back," this one is a nice satire. The main spoof is of the pharmaceutical industry and its pill prey. Some lighter spoofs occur with the medical profession, neighborhood gossip and home delivery services. Hudson plays George Kimball, an upper middle class suburbanite. He is a hypochondriac. Day plays his wife, Judy; and Randall is his neighbor and best friend, Arnold Nash. This 1964 film gives a look at some American culture of the mid-20th century that may be strange to people of today. The milkman and home pick-up and delivery by dry cleaners are things of the past. But, there was a day when those were part of everyday life. Not only in the larger cities and suburbs, but also in towns of any size all across America. So, this film has an extra plus for some folks – a bit of nostalgia that it didn't have when it was made. And, a little education about the past for people who weren't alive then and didn't have such experiences. This film has a couple of obvious different twists from the first two. The two leads are married in this one, not singles who are at odds as in much of the other two films. And, Hudson's role is one of a devoted, loving husband and a decent, honest guy who is mistrusted – a reverse from the first two films. The gossipy milkman is quite exaggerated, and this film is a little slower than the first two. Yet, its script is just as crisp and funny. This is a laugh fest you won't want to miss. Some of my favorite lines and scenes follow.One of the very funniest sight gags of any film I've ever seen is when Judy walks over to the bed where George is sleeping. She winds up and delivers a hard slap on his face. I can only guess that the movie crew had to do this take a number of times. It is so funny; everyone had to be rolling with laughter. Hudson and Day play it perfectly. He jumps up in bed, startled, while she sits on the edge of the bed, puts her arms around his shoulders, and says, "Oh, my darling. Oh, my darling, are you having another nightmare?" He looks dazed, rubs his face, and says, "No. I … I uh." She says, "There sweetheart." He says, "I think somebody … Somebody hit me." She kisses him on the cheek and says, "Oh, it's all right, darling. I'm here now." The subsequent scenes just continue the laughter from thereon. The supporting cast adds a lot to the humor in this film. Edward Andrews is the family doctor and friend, Ralph Morrissey. Paul Lynde is Mr. Akins, owner of Green Hills cemetery. George goes to buy a burial plot at Green Hills. Akins asks, "How many in your family, Mr. Kimball?" George: "Just my wife and myself." Akins: "Oh well, that's all right. Chance of any little additions maybe?" George: "Well, there might be another man along later." At home with Judy, George says: "If I'd known it was going to be like this, I would have told you I was dying right away." Judy: "George, you should have. Promise you'll never keep anything like that from me again." George is in the doctor's office and asks: "What kind of pills are they?" Ralph: "You wouldn't know if I told you. Just take them. Take the pills." George: "Is that my chart, Ralph?" Ralph: "Mmm, hmmm." George: "Well, aren't you doing an awful lot of writing for just indigestion?" Ralph:: "The more I write, the more money I charge."At the breakfast table, Judy says: "Guess what? The Bullards are getting a divorce." George: "The Bullards?" Judy: "The milkman told me." George: "Who are they?" Judy: "They live in the next block. I don't really know them. But I must say I expected it." George: "You don't know them and you expected them to get a divorce?" A bit later, George: "Do you ever read the obituary page? It's enough to scare you to death." Judy: "Well if it scares you, why do you read it?" George: "What should I do? Bury my head in the sand?" On their commuter train ride home, George says to Arnold, "Can I take you into my confidence?" Arnold: "You can, George." George: "Well, I've just had some rather bad news." Arnold: "It's nothing that's going to affect property values, is it?" George: "No, I don't think so." Arnold: "That's a relief. What then?" George: "It's curtains Arnold." Arnold: "Curtains? What do you mean, curtains?" George: "I just came from the doctor. He only gives me a few more weeks to live." Later, George says, "Hindus had the right idea, Arnold. When the husband died, the wife went with him. Threw herself right on the funeral pyre. Then he didn't have to worry about her."Neighbor Marge: "What are you doing?" Judy: "Making George's sleeping pills." Marge: "What are you, a pharmacist?" Judy: "I'm a very smart wife. You know George. He's convinced he can't sleep without a pill. So, he thinks it's Seconol, I know it's sugar." Marge: "And it works?" Judy: "It has for five years. And you know something else, when he takes two, he goes to sleep twice as fast." Marge, laughing: "You should be written up in the medical journal." Judy: "Oh, that would ruin everything." Marge: Why?" Judy: "He reads it every week."

edwagreen Last and definitely the worst of the Doris Day-Rock Hudson trilogy marks this 1964 film.The picture is done in by miserable writing and a story line that you can only take too far. It's basically the story of a hypochondriac who misunderstands his situation in the doctor's office and comes away with the idea that he is dying. Now, this is not exactly Rock Hudson's type of genre.Rock eventually tells wife Doris about all this and there is complete mayhem and more misunderstanding when Doris discovers this isn't so. She feels that Rock has told her this to cover up an alleged affair.Tony Randall again joins the Hudson-Day team, but this time he talks in a monotonous tone of voice, as the next door neighbor caught up in this nonsense.

bkoganbing For the last film of Rock Hudson-Doris Day-Tony Randall, Rock and Doris are already married so it's not like Rock is in hot pursuit of our all American virginal goddess. Instead they seem like a typical suburban couple of the early sixties except for one problem, Rock is an obsessive compulsive hypochondriac. Another visit to Edward Andrews the doctor and a big misunderstanding convince Rock he's a terminal case and he starts making preparations both to meet his Maker and make sure about Doris who he leaves behind. That causes all kinds of funny situations that Rock and Doris muddle through with the fumbling help of a lot of people.Hudson and Day did three films together and by rights they should be listed as a trio with Tony Randall because he was in all three of the films and added so much to them as Hudson's comic foil. Of course this was in the day much before he became TV's most famous fuss budget, Felix Unger. Still you can see traces of Felix in all three of Randall's roles with Rock and Doris.Send Me No Flowers is the weakest of the three comedies I feel because the Hudson-Day team works so much better with Rock trying to grab a little nookie from Doris and getting hooked for his troubles. Still the film has some really nice moments. All three of their films were well cast with some of the best supporting players around.My favorite in Send Me No Flowers is Paul Lynde as the cemetery director who just loves his job. He has two scenes, one with Rock buying a cemetery plot and a second with Doris where he inadvertently solves the problems Rock's hypochondria works them into.Rock and Doris surely made one wonderful movie screen team.