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Desk Set

1957, Movie, NR, 103 mins

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A charming romantic comedy featuring the matchless talents of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and a graceful use of a brand-new comic trope: the computer. Tracy stars as a gruff efficiency expert who brings the all-knowing electronic brain to a TV network. Hepburn is the head of the research department who realizes the threat it poses to her small, overworked staff (which includes Joan Blondell and Dina Merrill) and sets about testing the computer's presumed infallibility while winning Tracy's heart. Read the complete review for Desk Set
Computer expert Spencer Tracy tries to prove his electronic brain can replace Katharine Hepburn's research staff in Desk Set (1957).
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Posted: 8/1/2008
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Battle-of-the-sexes comedy about a TV network executive who confronts a corporate efficiency expert.
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Length: 00:28
Posted: 3/16/2008
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Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set is the sixth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn plays Bunny Watson, the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays Richard Sumner, an efficiency expert hired to modernize Watson's operation. When Sumner has a huge computer installed, Watson and her co-workers (including Joan Blondell and Sue Randall) fear that they're going to lose their jobs. Their suspicions are confirmed when the computer merrily begins issuing pink termination slips. Something is obviously amiss: the computer not only fires the ladies, but also the head of the network, and Sumner, who isn't even on the company payroll! Summer explains that the computer was designed to help Watson and her staff and not replace them; he also confesses that, given the pink-slip incident, this might not have been such a hot idea. Watson, who has fallen in love with Sumner, is in just the right mood to forgive him.
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Length: 01:43:34
Posted: 6/6/2009
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A computer brought in to modernize a TV research department by an efficiency expert fires all of the staff - including the efficiency expert himself.
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Posted: 5/30/2009
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Year: 1957
Rated NR

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Cast
Spencer Tracy: Richard Sumner
Katharine Hepburn: Bunny Watson
Gig Young: Mike Cutler
Joan Blondell: Peg Costello
Dina Merrill: Sylvia
Sue Randall: Ruthie

 

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