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DVD Details
- Commentary
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 4, 2004
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn | |
Performer: | Joan Blondell, Gig Young, Dina Merrill & Neva Patterson | |
Directed by | Walter Lang | |
Edited by | Robert Simpson | |
Screenwriting by | Henry Ephron & Phoebe Ephron | |
Composition by | Cyril J. Mockridge | |
Produced by | Henry Ephron | |
Director of Photography: | Leon Shamroy |
Entertainment Reviews:
The least, perhaps, of the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn collaborations...this 1957 comedy is nevertheless a bright and witty vehicle for its stars, directed well and anonymously by that fine old hack Walter Lang.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: B- --
Mildly amusing but not great comedy, penned by the Ephrons from a stage play, this eighth teaming of Tracy and Hepburn places the battle of the sexes in the workplace against the threat of new technology.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
The real reason to watch this movie is, of course, for the sexily smart, perfectly timed comic interplay that is the hallmark of all Spencer Tracy-Katherine Hepburn pairings.
Premiere
Rating: 4/5 --
The Spence & Kate show starts to show its age.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Rating: 7/10 --
A winning comedy that's as leisurely as the Eisenhower years, with just a hint of the rebellion that's coming down the pike.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 7/10 --
It doesn't have the emotional heft of something like The Apartment but it's a delightful little comedy with a hint of Christmas in it for the holidays.
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rachelsreviews.net
Rating: 3.5/5 --
[Miss Hepburn and Mr. Tracy] can tote phone books on their heads or balance feathers on their chins and be amusing -- which is about the size of what they do here.
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New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) heads up the research department at the Federal Broadcasting Company, a major TV network. And she does her job very well, thank you very much. Assigned by the network president to introduce computers into some of the department's functions, Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) arrives at Bunny's well-run division to observe daily activities. Unfortunately, however, Sumner is ordered to keep his mission secret. As a result, the whole staff believes they are being replaced. To make matters worse, there appears to be more than a little electricity between Bunny and Sumner, which upsets Bunny's boyfriend Mike (Gig Young). As tension in the office mounts, so do the laughs in this classic romantic comedy!
Product Description:
The legendary screen duo of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn bring their keen comic timing and elegant, palpable chemistry to Walter Lang's DESK SET. Hepburn is cast as Bunny Watson, an exceedingly feminine reference librarian in a longtime lukewarm relationship with TV executive Mike Cutler (Gig Young). Tracy plays Richard Sumner, a hardheaded computer whiz who has designed a system named Miss Emmy to replace Bunny and the rest of her staff. Bunny and Richard clash at first, but their fiery encounters soon begin to take on an unmistakably romantic glow. Lang's film features an excellent script by Henry and Phoebe Ephron, adapted from the play by William Marchant. The sharp, hilarious dialogue is delivered with flair by Tracy and Hepburn, who had played opposite each other seven times before filming began. Fine work from supporting actors Young and Joan Blondell, as well as some unintentionally amusing 1950s conceptions of a computerized world, round out DESK SET's overflowing collection of buoyant charms.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 120,035
- UPC: 024543115649
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