The film version of the hit Broadway musical, directed by Stanley Donen and choreographed by Robert Fosse, was called by Godard "the first left-wing operetta, quite skillfully filmed, for Donen sticks to the Broadway conventions but pushes them to their utmost limits, which results in a rather eccentric and totally unrestrained work." Doris Day is the feisty union leader in a pajama factory, fighting to win a 7-1/2-cent hourly wage increase, and giving the plant's handsome new supervisor (John Raitt) a run for his money. Eddie Foy, Jr., is the plant's time-control manager, at his best when modelling the factory's new line of goods. Tunes include "Steam Heat," "7-1/2 Cents," and "Hernando's Hideaway." Godard's comments on The Pajama Game help to explain the "look" of his own films, and the importance of the American musicals of the 40s and 50s to his work: "The grace of The Pajama Game came from its quality of having been snapped - or shot - live, as it were. Life captured." (BFI note) "... The arabesques of (the) dance movements reveal an unfamiliar grace, that of actuality.... (W)hen the actor dances, he is no longer transformed into a dancer doing his act.... he still remains in character, but suddenly feels the need to dance. Herein lies the novelty...." (in Milne, "Godard on Godard")