Pat and Mike George Cukor Digital Life DVD

Pat and Mike
starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, William Ching, Sammy White
directed by: George Cukor

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790745985
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790745984
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 12011
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 13, 1952

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A sports promoter thinks he can make some money by convincing a physical education teacher at a small college to throw a tournament. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/08/2002 Starring: Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr Director: George Cukor

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Kate plays Pat Pemberton, a college physical education teacher who excels at just about every sport there is. She's also a great athletic competitor, except when her overbearing, worrywart fiancé, Collier Weld, is around. (As Weld, William Ching does an admirable job in a thankless role.) All Pat has to do is see Collier's face on the sidelines and her golf swing loses its power; her tennis game goes haywire. It takes crooked sports manager Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy, of course) to recognize Pat's outstanding talent. He takes her on as his most important client and handles her with the same loving care that he gives to his favorite racehorse. Naturally, Pat and Mike's relationship is destined to overstep its professional boundaries. The mutual attraction grows from the moment they meet. Watching Pat walk away, Mike comments to his partner, 'Not much meat on her, but what's there is 'cherce'.'

The film carries a powerful feminist message, especially considering that it was made in the early 1950s: Pat is undone by Collier, who would rather have her stick to being 'the little woman' and forget about succeeding. But with Mike in her corner, Pat can have a great career. Her union with him is a true partnership; everything is, as he says, 'Five-oh, five-oh.' In the end, he's secure enough to be comfortable as 'the man behind the woman.' The film features terrific comic performances by Aldo Ray as a bone-headed boxer, a young Charles Bronson (before he changed his name from Buchinski) as a small-time gangster, and Our Gang's Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer as a high-strung bus boy. --Laura Mirsky

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- Hepburn's Physical Prowess Takes Center Stage in an Entertaining Sports-Centric Pairing with Tracy
Katharine Hepburn has said this deceptively casual 1952 comedy is her favorite of the nine onscreen pairings with longtime partner Spencer Tracy, and one can see why as the film takes advantage of her natural athletic prowess. Directed by the redoubtable George Cukor and written by the husband-and-wife team of Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon (Adam's Rib), this is not so much a rollicking screwball farce as a sly opposites-attract love story set in a world pitched between professional sports and the street-slang and pinstripe suits of Damon Runyon. It's not a complicated plot. Mike Conovan is a dem-and-dose sports promoter who already manages a punch-drunk fighter named Davie Hucko. On a country club golf course, he sees a great golfing talent in Pat Pemberton, a college physical-education instructor who turns out to be accomplished in a number of sports including sharp-shooting and tennis. Mike immediately sees the ... Read More

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- Nice Tracy and Hepburn Film
This is a disarming little movie about a woman athlete and her coach. It is a somewhat romantic comedy but it is more about developing a female athlete and coaching her to be a winner. Katherine Hepburn was apparently a terrific athlete and Garson and Kanin wrote their screenplay around her. It is not a raccuous or exaggerated romantic comedy like Adam's Rib or even Woman of the Year. It is much smaller but very charming. Take it for what it is and don't expect it to be like the other films. This is not what Pat and Mike are about.

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- Tracy and Hepburn strike again.......
PAT & MIKE is an inspiring look at the relationship between a gifted athlete (Katherine Hepburn) and her coach (Spencer Tracy), determined to get her back on her game. Pat's fiancee, Collier Weld (William Ching) is the one setback that keeps her from really excelling at the sports she pursues. Everytime she sees him in the crowd, she fails miserably at anything she is attempting to do (be it serve a tennis ball, or shoot a golfball). I am sure you can imagine the twist of fate that occurs while under the tuttelage of Mike, who believes that they have a truly equal partnership, in his words, "5-0, 5-0."

Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn's chemistry is going strong, as they trade clever banter and we watch the evolution of a beautiful relationship. This film is especially progressive for the time that it was released (the 1950s).

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- for Stevie
Bought this for my daughter for a course she was taking at UF called Women in Films. It arrived very promptly at her address.

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