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VHS : Desk SetIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill directed by: Walter Lang  List Price: $12.98 Price: $4.97 You Save: $8.01 (62%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301586030 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6301586034 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: January 01, 1998 Running Time: 103 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: May 01, 1957 Sales Rank: 1131 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: One of the later Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn matchups, this time pitting efficiency expert--sorry, that's "methods engineer"--Richard Sumner (Tracy) against TV-network research whiz Bunny Watson (Hepburn) over adding a new-fangled computer--again, sorry, that's "electronic brain"--to her department, thereby threatening her and her colleagues' livelihoods. Gig Young appears as Bunny's beau, an ambitious network executive who strings her along and becomes apoplectic at the idea that she doesn't need him. But as always, it's Hepburn and Tracy's bickering-flirting that makes this such a winning enterprise--a lunch date that turns into an interrogation and their sly repartee during a Christmas party are a couple of the movie's hilarious highlights. Interestingly, what starts out as something of a technophobic exercise--Hepburn fears for her job, and a computer goes haywire--takes an abrupt turn (perhaps the IBM product placement had something to do with that). Briskly scripted by Henry and Phoebe Ephron (Nora and Delia's parents) from a play by William Marchant. --David Kronke Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Huzzah!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 ... Read More Rating: - Desk SetThis is such a fun movie! I love the Hepburn/Tracy interactions; they were very familiar with one another's styles by the time they made this film and play off each other perfectly. The theme of the room-sized computer as a threat to everyone's job is also great fun to watch. It's hard to imagine computers were once so enormous! Rating: - A great romantic comedy with poor commentary trackWhen I list my favorite film for each year, this is always on my list for 1957. I know I'm supposed to say "Twelve Angry Men" or "Bridge over the River Kwai", but I just find this film to be better. Hepburn and Tracy star in a very odd romantic comedy in which the leading man is a computer designer and the leading lady is head of the reference department at a major television network. Change the fear of automation that Tracy's computer brings to the fear of outsourcing and you have something very modern ... Read More Rating: - A Tracy-Hepburn gemBuy this film! No, really, do it! It's a fine piece of comedy from Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn centered in the 1950s about automation in the work site. Both leads work fine together and, if you can catch it, ad-lib some of the dialogue. The supporting cast has not one weak link among them. Watch also for the running site gags (think, "Wandering Jew" plant). Unfortunately there is no commentary and few extras. Nevertheless this is a great film to add to your collection. Rating: - The Hepburn/Tracy Team is Timeless!!I saw this movie as a kid, and it remains as fresh and funny now as it was the first time I saw it! Snappy dialog and wonderful chemistry between the main characters. A snapshot of a period in time when computers were still several stories high and employees still clustered around the water cooler for news. As a reference librarian, I like the way the film portrays how research was done "back in the day," before the internet and email were available and librarians had to use print resources - and their brains ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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