Desk Set with Spencer Tracy: DVD Cover

    Desk Set
    a.k.a. His Other Woman Director: Walter Lang Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell

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    • DVD Release Date: 05/04/2004
    • Original Release: 1957
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 1,450

    Viewer Rating: (3 ratings)

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    Closed Caption; Commentary by actors Dina Merrill and Neva Patterson ; Movietone News: "Designers Inspired for New Creation by Film Desk Set"; Theatrical Trailer ; Studio Classics Trailers: All About Eve, An Affair to Remember, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and The Seven Year Itch ; Still Gallery

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Main Titles [2:01]
    2. A Day Early [2:03]
    3. The Reference Department [5:19]
    4. A Little Talk [4:03]
    5. Walking Encyclopedia [2:39]
    6. Keeping Mum [2:10]
    7. A Date for the Dance [5:54]
    8. Lunch Invitation [5:00]
    9. Rooftop Dining [7:07]
    10. Company Gossip [1:25]
    11. Broken Date [2:10]
    12. A Ride Home [3:39]
    13. Three's Company [3:23]
    14. The Yuletide Season [3:43]
    15. Playpen [6:36]
    16. So Close [3:48]
    17. The Life of the Party [6:22]
    18. A Proposal at Last [2:56]
    19. Merry Christmas [4:40]
    20. Electronic Brain [2:30]
    21. Modern Miracle [3:10]
    22. What People Can Do [8:43]
    23. Never Assume [3:54]
    24. The Big Question [4:21]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set represents the eighth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn plays the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays an efficiency expert, hired to modernize Hepburn's operation. When Tracy has a huge computer installed, Hepburn and her co-workers (including Joan Blondell and Sue "Miss Landers" Randall) fear that they're going to lose their jobs. Their suspicions are confirmed when the computer merrily begins issuing pink termination slips. But something is obviously amiss: the computer not only fires the ladies, but also the head of the network--and Tracy, who isn't even on the company payroll! At this point, Tracy explains that the computer was designed to help Hepburn 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. But Hepburn, who has fallen in love with Tracy, is in just the right mood to forgive him--and doesn't need to consult her research files to come up with this decision. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    November 29, 2007: I absoluteley love watching the wits of Tracy's and Hepburn's characters pitted against each other not only for the rivalry, but for the joy they exhibit in being so engaged. I work with modern day technology and because I've seen so many advances in my fifty plus years, I feel the weight of the pressures that such changes in the workplace bring about - both good and bad "for some". Downsizing is real. The "girls'" fears are real that they could be replaced by a machine and cold, uncaring people like the woman "forgot name"who comes along with EMERAC. I also enjoyed Gig Young's character who takes Bunny for granted and even more, the fact that she finally dumps him for the much more interesting Tracy character who sees her as what she really is - a warm, intelligent equal and partner.

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    July 24, 2004: ?Desk Set? is one of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy?s later film efforts - post MGM, pre-'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.' But it generally lacks in the chemistry that most of their work at MGM had in spades. Tracy is Richard Sumner, a method's engineer who's assigned to make the daily operation of a television station more efficient. Of course he's bound to butt heads with researcher, Bunny Watson (Hepburn). Unlike most Tracy/Hepburn movies, in which their love for one another is never in question, on this occasion, Gig Young is inexplicably and needlessly thrown into the mix as Bunny's boyfriend, Mike Cutler. Joan Blondell is a welcome edition as the wise cracking, Peg Costello. But it's the remnant pang of that old Hepburn/Tracy's stardust and magic that keeps this otherwise deadly boring film afloat. ?Desk Set? is at last presented in its original Cinemascope 2:35:1 aspect ratio and it is anamorphically enhanced to take full advantage of 16:9 displays. Although colors can be rich, vibrant and bold, flesh tones have an uncanny pasty look in certain scenes and a reddish/pinkish overcast in others. There are instances where dirt, film grain and age related artifacts crop up throughout this print. Also, black levels tend to be weak in certain scenes. There's a hint of edge enhancement and some pixelization but the print is generally smooth looking. The audio, as with all Cinemascope films of the period, is vintage stereo and presented at a reasonable listening level. Fox is genuinely inconsistent in the extra content they provide for their 'Studio Series' titles. If you recall, 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' contained a 70 min. documentary while 'The Inn of The Sixth Happiness' had only an audio commentary. On this occasion we get an audio commentary and some truncated Movietones junk that is short, boring and generally slapped together as an afterthought. Not what I would expect from any collection dubbed, 'Studio Series'. If you're a die hard Tracy/Hepburn fan than this is a must have. But it's not one of their best or even one of their mediocre. It's just big on...well, being big and short, unfortunately, on entertainment!