Cinema: Rolling with Rock

A Very Special Favor was written by Stanley Shapiro (Pillow Talk, Operation Petticoat, Lover Come Back, Bedtime Story), which means that it is supposed to be hilariously off-color. Off-color it is.

Rock Hudson plays, if that is the word, an absolutely irresistible womanizer. This is subtly conveyed by showing luscious ladies giving Rock the keys to their apartments on sight, while others visit him each morning to cook his breakfast and pick up his laundry. To drive the point home, Hudson dials two girls simultaneously on two phones and tells them both at once...

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