Desk Set Movie Review 1957

One of the later and less dynamic Tracy/Hepburn comedies, about an efficiency expert who installs a giant computer in an effort to update a TV network's female-run reference department. Still, the duo sparkle as they bicker, battle, and give in to love. Based on William Marchant's play.

Distribution

Facets Multimedia, Inc., 1517 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL 60614, Phone: (773)281-9075, Toll-free: 800-331-6197, Fax: (773)929-5437, Email: sales@facets.org, URL: http://www.facets.org

Available on VHS
Running time 103 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Comedy, Screen Teams: Hepburn & Tracy, Libraries and Librarians, Sex & Sexuality, Computers, Adapted from a Play

Screenplay

Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Blondell, Gig Young, Dina Merrill, Neva Patterson, Harry Ellerbe, Nicholas Joy, Diane Jergens, Merry Anders

Cinematography

Leon Shamroy

Director

Walter Lang

Music

Cyril Mockridge

Producer

20th Century-Fox