Desk Set
by Walter Lang
List Price:
Our Price: $9.99
You Save: $4.99 (33%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $6.49 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD details
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD details
Actor: Dina Merrill, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer TracyDirector: Walter Lang
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy
Editor: Robert L. Simpson
Producer: Henry Ephron
Writer: Henry Ephron
Writer: Phoebe Ephron
Writer: William Marchant
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Desk Set
DVD Review: Desk Set
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the great movies, always funny no matter how many times you see it. Arrived quickly and in perfect condition!DVD Review: One of their best!
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't think of a single Hepburn/Tracy movie that I don't like, but this is one of their best. They are terrific together!DVD Review: um,um, good!
Summary: 5 Stars
seen this movie many, many, years ago. enjoyed it just as much this time as I did then. they made several movies togeather, and now I wish to see them all again. my wife, and I, as of today 23 feb. 09 have seen fifty years go by, and still think that some of the old ones are still the best. thank you very much for bringing them back to us. thank so much! wacko jimDVD Review: Huzzah!
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was a college student in Stony Brook, New York in 1974, I skipped a class one cold winter morning to stay in my dorm room and watch "Desk Set" on my roommate's black and white portable TV. It was a revelation. Since then I have graduated to watching it on DVD on my large screen color TV, and it continues to be a revelation. I won't repeat all the accolades of previous reviewers - who DOESN'T love the scene on the freezing rooftop or the floating island on a rainy night while Tracy's shoes are cooking in the oven? - but there are lots of delightful lesser moments, such as when Hepburn despairs of getting married and suggests to Blondell that they live together and keep cats (Gertrude Stein, anyone?) or when the continuity person didn't do their job, and Hepburn leaves the office building holding flowers of one color, and steps outside with the color completely changed.
A big part of the charm of this film, of course, is the obvious and genuine affection between Hepburn and Tracy. They truly enjoyed each other, and so do we.
DVD Review: Desk Set
Summary: 5 Stars
This is such a fun movie! I love the Hepburn/Tracy interactions; they were very familiar with one another's styles by the time they made this film and play off each other perfectly. The theme of the room-sized computer as a threat to everyone's job is also great fun to watch. It's hard to imagine computers were once so enormous!
Description of Desk Set
Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) heads up the research department at the Federal Broadcasting Company, a major TV network. And she does her job very well, thank you very much. Assigned by the network president to introduce computers into some of the department?s functions, Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) arrives at Bunny?s well-run division to observe daily activities. Unfortunately, however, Sumner is ordered to keep his mission secret. As a result, the whole staff believes they are being replaced. To make matters worse, there appears to be more than a little electricity between Bunny and Sumner, which upsets Bunny?s boyfriend Mike (Gig Young). As the tension mounts in the office, so do the laughs in this classic romantic comedy.One of the later Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn matchups, this time pitting efficiency expert--sorry, that's "methods engineer"--Richard Sumner (Tracy) against TV-network research whiz Bunny Watson (Hepburn) over adding a new-fangled computer--again, sorry, that's "electronic brain"--to her department, thereby threatening her and her colleagues' livelihoods. Gig Young appears as Bunny's beau, an ambitious network executive who strings her along and becomes apoplectic at the idea that she doesn't need him. But as always, it's Hepburn and Tracy's bickering-flirting that makes this such a winning enterprise--a lunch date that turns into an interrogation and their sly repartee during a Christmas party are a couple of the movie's hilarious highlights. Interestingly, what starts out as something of a technophobic exercise--Hepburn fears for her job, and a computer goes haywire--takes an abrupt turn (perhaps the IBM product placement had something to do with that). Briskly scripted by Henry and Phoebe Ephron (Nora and Delia's parents) from a play by William Marchant. --David Kronke
Classics DVDs
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Bestsellers in Classics DVDs
It Happened One NightSony; Release date: 1999-12-28; DVD
Best price: $12.69
Price in other shops:
The Shop Around the CornerWarner Brothers; Release date: 2002-10-01; DVD
Best price: $12.02
Price in other shops:
Bell, Book and CandleSony; Release date: 2000-03-28; DVD
Best price: $15.95
Price in other shops:
That Touch of MinkRelease date: 2001-01-23; DVD
Best price: $7.58
Price in other shops:
The Taming of the ShrewSony; Release date: 1999-10-26; DVD
Best price: $7.64
Price in other shops:
The Complete Thin Man Collection (The Thin Man / After the Thin Man / Another Thin Man / Shadow of the Thin Man / The Thin Man Goes Home / Song of the Thin Man / Alias Nick and Nora)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2005-08-02; DVD
Best price: $35.67
Price in other shops:
The Philadelphia StoryWarner Brothers; Release date: 2000-05-02; DVD
Best price: $6.10
Price in other shops:
My Fair Lady (Two-Disc Special Edition)HEPBURN,AUDREY; Release date: 2004-02-03; DVD
Best price: $13.18
Price in other shops:
Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)KELLY,GENE; Release date: 2002-09-24; DVD
Best price: $13.15
Price in other shops:
The Music Man (Special Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 1999-02-23; DVD
Best price: $7.99
Price in other shops:
Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs
The Ghost and Mrs. MuirTwentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2003-04-01; DVD
Best price: $7.66
Price in other shops:
The Bishop's WifeGRANT,CARY; Release date: 2001-03-06; DVD
Best price: $5.50
Price in other shops:
Arsenic and Old LaceWarner Brothers; Release date: 2000-08-29; DVD
Best price: $11.61
Price in other shops:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition)Sony; Release date: 2008-02-12; DVD
Best price: $11.39
Price in other shops:
Adam's RibWarner Brothers; Release date: 2000-09-19; DVD
Best price: $4.97
Price in other shops:
Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)Release date: 2005-03-01; DVD
Best price: $14.04
Price in other shops:
HolidaySony; Release date: 2006-12-05; DVD
Best price: $10.73
Price in other shops:
State of the UnionUniversal; Release date: 2006-08-22; DVD
Best price: $7.07
Price in other shops:
The Philadelphia StoryWarner Brothers; Release date: 2000-05-02; DVD
Best price: $5.62
Price in other shops:
The Hepburn & Tracy Signature Collection (Woman of the Year / Pat and Mike / Adam's Rib / The Spencer Tracy Legacy)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2004-10-12; DVD
Best price: $16.97
Price in other shops: