Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set is the sixth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn plays Bunny Watson, the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays Richard Sumner, an efficiency expert hired to modernize Watson's operation. When Sumner has a huge computer installed, Watson and her co-workers (including Joan Blondell and Sue Randall) fear that they're going to lose their jobs. Their suspicions are confirmed when the computer merrily begins issuing pink termination slips. Something is obviously amiss: the computer not only fires the ladies, but also the head of the network, and Sumner, who isn't even on the company payroll! Summer explains that the computer was designed to help Watson 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. Watson, who has fallen in love with Sumner, is in just the right mood to forgive him.
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
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Wonderful movieI saw this movie on a late night channel and couldn't turn it off to go to sleep! I love Hepburn and Tracy. They fit beautifully together..Score: 5/5
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A wonderful diversionThis is quite possibly one of the best romantic comedies of our time..Score: 5/5
Before Google?Fantastic film with fast paced dialogue and a moral that we can all relate to - beware technology and modernity! Keep your brain smart, there's nothing out there quite like human logic and sensibility. Great backdrop of New York City and funny references to stops along what's now Metro-North. I gave this to a 20-something friend who had a broken foot - laid up in bed she had to watch it... Anyway, she enjoyed it, so it's for everyone, young city slickers and um, the suburbanites in the tri-state. Highly recommended..Score: 5/5
One of my favorite moviesSet in the 60's before computers were commonplace even behind the scenes in corporations. Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn bring some tongue in cheek comedy to the concern an office has when they find out a computer is being installed in their department. Common office romance also is in the mix. Then there are the common fixtures in any office: Newbie, Knowledgable Veteran, Established Worker, Office Gossip, & Supervisor/Mentor. All of these have interactions that create depth to the storyline. It's simply just a good movie, and the way a lot of movies were written. No cookie cutter factory line film nor a 2 or 3 part series to get to a conclusion of the story..Score: 5/5
Game setWhat a brilliant cast. Fun, lively. Quick on the humor and boy what acting..Score: 5/5
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One of my favs!Ok, it is of its time but it is a fun light-hearted film. A great feel-good film..Score: 5/5
Like it but hate itI luved the acting but I hated the movie!!I dissent find anything funny about the movie!!I found extremely boring to sit through!!the storyline sucked it wasn't interesting at all!the movie didn't even come close to meeting my expectations!!!!if Katharine Hepburn didn't lead the movie I think I would of committed suicide!!!.Score: 3/5
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