Fresh
Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin here wrote an engaging screenplay about emotion-without-display for their rare uncut diamonds.
Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker
Pat and Mike
Together again - and it's no fib, their funniest hit since "Adam's Rib"
1952 · 1h 35m · N/A
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
George Cukor
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Pat and Mike
Overview
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
Director and cast
- George Cukor Director
- Spencer Tracy as Mike Conovan
- Katharine Hepburn as Patricia 'Pat' Pemberton
- Aldo Ray as Davie Hucko
- William Ching as Collier Weld
- Sammy White as Barney Grau
- George Mathews as Sylvester 'Spec' Cauley
- Charles Bronson as Henry 'Hank' Tasling (as Charles Buchinski)
- Gussie Moran as Self
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias as Self
- Don Budge Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Tracy is given some choice lines in the script and makes much of them in an easy, throwaway style that lifts the comedy punch.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
One of the better Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn comedies -- not so much for the screenplay by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, which lacks the bite and sophistication of Adam's Rib, as for the relaxed and graceful interplay of the stars.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The best of the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn cycle.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh
There are far too many shots featuring real-life sports stars, but the sparring leads, and Ray's dim boxer, work superbly together under Cukor's deceptively effortless, always elegant direction.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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