The Pajama Game (Warner) offers proof that Broadway's canniest silver fox, Co-Producer-Director-Writer George Abbott, need yield to no one in Hollywood when he sits in the director's chair. This glittering musicomedy, whose zany spirits and singable tunes (Hernando's Hideaway, Hey There) ran up 1,000 Broadway performances, sparkles even more on film. With much of the original cast, Abbott and Co-Producer-Director Stanley Donen re-create Co-Author Richard Bissell's silly, seamy saga of life and capitalistic strife in a Dubuque nightwear factory.
Pitted against the factory boss in a manner that often plops them against each other: the factory's lass-grabbing superintendent (John Raitt) and...
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