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Genre: Musical/Comedy
Length: 101 minutes (1 hour, 41 minutes)
Watched On: 29th November 2022
Star Rating: 3 stars
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Musicals really are not my thing, that's for sure. Having been a student at a specialist performing arts high school for five years of my life and being used to a ton of plays and performances (at times, forced to try and consider auditioning for them) I really didn't want to try and start watching lots of them now as an adult for fear that memories will resurface again of that time. When Prime Video added this one though, I am a fan of Doris Day so I had to give it a go and see why the broadway musical became a movie.
Set in a pajama-making factory, Doris plays a woman called Babe Williams who is a confident employee and member of the committee that campaigns for working rights and union membership support. She and her fellow co-workers have been demanding a seven-and-a-half cent an-hour rise for months but have gotten nowhere with the big boss. A new man called Sid comes onto the scene and is given the role of supervising all of the employees on the factory level. He and Babe cross paths and potentially start to have stronger feelings than they both care to admit publicly.
There are a ton of songs throughout and dance numbers (choreographed by Fosse) of which some I liked and some I didn't think had the best timing during the movie. I really didn't know where the plot was going and so, the fun joyful dancing felt a bit filler in parts. I liked the messages behind the union campaigning and it's good that they were starting to address and promote this more in the 1950s thanks to this musical.
Towards the end, there is a scene involving knife throwing that has angered a lot of us film reviewers to this day. If you search this one up on Letterboxd, you can see why!
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