Desk Set 1957 123movies

Watch: Desk Set 1957 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network’s research staff.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 8,789
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Reviews:

Trivial Pursuit with Emirac
Desk Set was the next to last teaming of Tracy and Hepburn and the first one away from MGM. It does have a different look to the product they did at MGM. Still good, but different. Probably because this was done in Cinemascope and Technicolor.

Hard to believe that Cinemascope would be used on a film essentially set indoors and on one set, the set being Hepburn’s office. But that was to show the immense size of Emirac the giant computer being installed there which Katharine and her staff think is going to replace them.

Desk Set had been on Broadway two year ago and had a respectable run. It starred Shirley Booth in Katharine Hepburn’s part and the rest of the cast were not names by any means. I’m sure Spencer Tracy’s role had to be built up from the stage version.

Even so, the film is essentially Hepburn’s. As usual in their films she has a rival to Tracy. In the past that part was played by such people as Melvyn Douglas, David Wayne, William Ching, and now Gig Young. It seemed like every movie comedy in the late 50s and early 60s had either Young or Tony Randall as the defeated rival role. Young gives his patented performance here.

A running gag throughout the film are the calls handled by Hepburn’s staff at the broadcast network for inane information. Like someone up in the corporate headquarters is playing trivial pursuit.

Also look for good performances by Joan Blondell, Sue Randall, and Dina Merrill as Hepburn’s staff and Neva Patterson as Emirac’s installer and keeper.

A good addition to the Tracy-Hepburn pantheon.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director Walter Lang
Writer Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron, William Marchant
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix 4-Track Stereo, Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Bausch & Lomb Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,850 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm