Desk Set
1957, NR, 103 min.
Directed by Walter Lang, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

One of the great Tracy-Hepburn pairings, this adaptation from the Broadway stage focuses on the love that grows from the contentious relationship between an efficiency expert and the head of the TV research department whose operations he’s been called in to automate.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.