Desk Set

The girls and guys who make the office such a wonderful place to love in!
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Format:  DVD
item number:  XJE9
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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

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 6,045
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. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Dec 10, 2013
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
Jul 1, 2004
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Desk Set is a big, shiny, doohickey coasting on the warm offerings of earlier triumphs. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
May 26, 2006
...This has obvious stage origins, but note how polished the playing is in the duo's rooftop lunch scene...
USA Today
Mar 2, 1990
[T]his 1957 farce is still rollicking good fun.
Los Angeles Times
May 6, 2004
[I]t's still a witty, often diverting romantic comedy that further demonstrates how well the duo fit. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Jan 25, 2019
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. Full Review
rachelsreviews.net
Feb 6, 2019

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: 122,202
  • UPC: 024543115649
  • Shipping Weight: 0.28/lbs (approx)
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