Desk Set

United States

1957

103 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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SCR William Marchant, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron

CAST Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall, Neva Patterson, Harry Ellerbe, Nicholas Joy, Diane Jergens, Merry Anders, Ida Moore, Rachel Stephens, Sammy Ogg, King Mojave, Charles Heard, Harry Evans, Hal Taggart, Jack G. Lee, Bill Duray, Richard Gardner, Jesslyn Fax, Shirley Mitchell, Renny McEvoy

MUSIC Cyril J. Mockridge, Lionel Newman, Edward B. Powell

SOUND E. Clayton Ward, Harry M. Leonard

Synopsis

The mysterious man hanging about at the research department of a big TV network proves to be engineer Richard Sumner, who’s been ordered to keep his real purpose secret: computerizing the office. Department head Bunny Watson, who knows everything, needs no computer to unmask Richard. The resulting battle of wits and witty dialogue pits Bunny’s fear of losing her job against her dawning attraction to Richard. —IMDb

Director

Walter Lang

Veteran film director Walter Lang’s well-known movies included “The King and I” and “Call Me Madam.” Lang graduated from the University of Tennessee, served in France with the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and began his career as a Hollywood film director in 1927. He directed more than 50 movies during his career, most of them while associated with 20th Century Fox from the early 1930s to the early 1960s. Some of his other films include “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” “Cheaper By the Dozen,” “State Fair,” “Moon Over Miami,” “Tin Pan Alley,” “The Great Profile” and “Star Dust.” Lang, who worked with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, was nominated for an Oscar for “The King and I”.—Los Angeles Times

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MarcH

6Nov11

Not in the same galaxy as Woman of The Year or Adam's Rib...it's all about the stars...they make even mediocre comedy feel like the wittiest thing ever written.