list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Desk Set on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Desk_Set/8844/default.aspx Title: Desk Set
Year: 1957
Director: Walter Lang
Plot: Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set represents the eighth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn plays the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays an efficiency expert, hired to modernize Hepburn's operation. When Tracy has a huge computer installed, Hepburn and her co-workers (including Joan Blondell and Sue "Miss Landers" Randall) fear that they're going to lose their jobs. Their suspicions are confirmed when the computer merrily begins issuing pink termination slips. But something is obviously amiss: the computer not only fires the ladies, but also the head of the network--and Tracy, who isn't even on the company payroll! At this point, Tracy explains that the computer was designed to help Hepburn 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. But Hepburn, who has fallen in love with Tracy, is in just the right mood to forgive him--and doesn't need to consult her research files to come up with this decision. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:11:15 GMTDesk Set1957Walter LangBased on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set represents the eighth screen teaming of <a href="/players/P____71578/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Spencer Tracy</a> and <a href="/players/P____31873/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Katharine Hepburn</a>. Hepburn plays the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays an efficiency expert, hired to modernize Hepburn's operation. When Tracy has a huge computer installed, Hepburn and her co-workers (including <a href="/players/P_____6812/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Joan Blondell</a> and Sue "Miss Landers" Randall) fear that they're going to lose their jobs. Their suspicions are confirmed when the computer merrily begins issuing pink termination slips. But something is obviously amiss: the computer not only fires the ladies, but also the head of the network--and Tracy, who isn't even on the company payroll! At this point, Tracy explains that the computer was designed to help Hepburn 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. But Hepburn, who has fallen in love with Tracy, is in just the right mood to forgive him--and doesn't need to consult her research files to come up with this decision. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide1Slightly Tagged (1-5)53http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t42006sot5x.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Desk_Set/8844/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/romance/MemberTagFilms.aspxromance
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