Desk Set
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Movie Reviews of Desk Set
Movie Review: IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been waiting for this DVD forever because I love this movie but can't stand the pan-and-scan version. I just saw this mentioned on Turner Classic Movies, cried out "Yes! Yes!" and immediately came to Amazon to see if they have it. I am so glad they do! And in honor of this great movie finally being released in all of it's widescreen glory, I am cut and pasting my review for the video version here below:
"Like Floating Island...Delicious!"
The smart dialogue, the gorgeous fashion, the way you want to kick Gig Young in the teeth...I wish more modern comedy could be this clever. My two favorite scenes are the rooftop lunch quiz and the rainy evening misunderstanding. As usual you never think Tracy is acting, he's so real. And Hepburn's Miss Watson (her name a inside-joke nod to the founder of IBM -Thomas J. Watson) is a character you root for to blow off egotistical beau Mike. Another bonus is the Sumners snooty EMIRAC assistant, Miss Warringer-whose come-uppance couldn't be better. I want a brown coat like Bunny's!
Thank goodness this is finally out on DVD and WIDESCREEN! It's completely enjoyable now without the distractions of pan and scan!
Tracy and Hepburn Forever!
Movie Review: Hepburn and Tracy: Who Needs Another Excuse to Watch?
Summary: 5 Stars
As with nearly all of the Hepburn/Tracy films, the joy for me of watching "Desk Set" is the very genuine rapport and affection that the two leads project toward one another. I happen to prefer this one over their other films together only because the supporting cast (including Gig Young and Joan Blondell) is superb and the entire enterprise has a very laid-back, relaxed air. It looks like it was fun to make, and throughout it cinema's most notable couple-and almost certainly its most talented-play beautifully off of each other's strengths. Like a well-worn but loving couple, they give each other room to maneuver and each has their moments to shine. It's not the world's most inventive script; all the subtext about Tracy being an efficiency expert and Hepburn's research team thinking he wants them all fired is much ado about not much. No, the reason to watch is to see the real spark between a great actor and a great actress who just happened to love each other in real life. It beats the heck out of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie any day of the week.Movie Review: Huzzah!
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was a college student in Stony Brook, New York in 1974, I skipped a class one cold winter morning to stay in my dorm room and watch "Desk Set" on my roommate's black and white portable TV. It was a revelation. Since then I have graduated to watching it on DVD on my large screen color TV, and it continues to be a revelation. I won't repeat all the accolades of previous reviewers - who DOESN'T love the scene on the freezing rooftop or the floating island on a rainy night while Tracy's shoes are cooking in the oven? - but there are lots of delightful lesser moments, such as when Hepburn despairs of getting married and suggests to Blondell that they live together and keep cats (Gertrude Stein, anyone?) or when the continuity person didn't do their job, and Hepburn leaves the office building holding flowers of one color, and steps outside with the color completely changed.
A big part of the charm of this film, of course, is the obvious and genuine affection between Hepburn and Tracy. They truly enjoyed each other, and so do we.
Movie Review: "Is something burning?"
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an extremely well done screen adaptation of a unique play. You expect nothing less from the team of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. However they do not distract from the performances of the other actors who are well-known in their own right. Harry Ellerbe, who plays Smithers, played the main role of Richard Sumner in the play.
Bunny and her staff and the research department are all preparing for Christmas season. But who should appear on a seen but the mysterious Richard Sumner, with a tape measure, 24 questions, and mysterious past in electronic brains. The conversation between Richard Sumner and Bunny are worth with film its self; yet it only gets better from there.
Like many plays the real worth and interest is in the dialog and interaction of the characters more than the action or the overall story. You will get wrapped up in the fun and wince once in a while.
Bad Day at Black Rock ~ Spencer Tracy
Movie Review: Great Film
Summary: 5 Stars
My favorite Hepburn-Tracy film. Not only the acting, but the rhythm and pace of the film and the actors. I've seen it many times. The story line is simple, fun and straight foward about a research department run by three chummy gals and Kate Hepburn, their very smart boss with a photographic memory. (up to 13, that is) All is fine, and the first part of the film is very much like watching a play. The film moves smoothly along, until the gals learn that they're about to get a mechanical brain (as they call a new huge computer that makes noises) which they fear will replace them, and thus their jobs. Tracy and Hepburn are terrific together (as usual) and there's not a moment lost in this outstanding comedy.
There is a commentary. Skip it. Dina Merril, who plays one of the secretaries in the flm, does most of the talking, but she talks mainly about herself and her (uninteresting) career and practically nothing about the making of the film.