PAT & MIKE (DVD/ST/ORIGINAL TRAILER) DVD

Pat and Mike
Pat (Katharine Hepburn), a college phys-ed instructor, enters into professional competition as a golf and tennis player. Mike (Spencer Tracy), a likeable but unscrupulous sports promoter, first attempts to bribe Pat to lose, but later becomes her manager. Pat performs brilliantly until her insufferable fiance Collier West (William Ching) shows up; West always manages to make Pat so nervous that she can't win to save her life. At long last, West walks out, having found Pat in a compromising situation with Mike. Though she'd previously kept her distance from Mike, Pat suddenly realizes that she's fallen in love with him and--after a few crooked gamblers are disposed of--Pat and Mike become partners on a permanent basis. Pat & Mike reunited Tracy and Hepburn with their favorite director, George Cukor, and their favorite scenarists, Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Watch for real-life golf and tennis champs Gussie Moran, Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Don Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker, Betty Hicks, Helen Dettweilerand Beverly Hanson as "themselves" -- and also keep an eye out for ex-ballplayer Chuck Connors, making his acting debut as a highway patrolman. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast Spencer Tracy as Mike Conovan Katharine Hepburn as Pat Pemberton Aldo Ray as Davie Hucko William Ching as Collier Weld Jim Backus as Charles Barry Sammy White as Barney Grau Chuck Connors as Police Captain George Mathews as Spec Cauley Loring Smith as Mr. Beminger Phyllis Povah as Mrs. Beminger Frank Richards as Sam Garsell Owen McGiveney as Harry MacWade Lou Lubin as Waiter Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as Bus Boy Bill Self as Pat's Caddy Gussie Moran as Herself Babe Didrikson Zaharias as Herself Don Budge as Himself Alice Marble as Herself Betty Hicks as Herself Beverly Hanson as Herself Helen Dettweiler as Sports Star

Crew Urie McCleary - Art Director Cedric Gibbons - Art Director Orry-Kelly - Costume Designer George Cukor - Director George Boemler - Editor David Raksin - Composer (Music Score) William J. Tuttle - Makeup William H. Daniels - Cinematographer Lawrence Weingarten - Producer Edwin B. Willis - Set Designer Hugh Hunt - Set Designer Warren Newcombe - Special Effects Douglas Shearer - Sound/Sound Designer Garson Kanin - Screenwriter Ruth Gordon - Screenwriter

Pat and Mike
This frothy Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn vehicle makes perhaps the best use ever of the actress' athletic prowess. It also makes pretty great use of the offscreen couple's well-known onscreen chemistry, resulting in a delightful sports comedy that puts the emphasis on the laughs while also rendering the scenes of Hepburn putting and volleying enjoyable -- even to those who abhor athletics. With her brittle East Coast persona, it's hard to stomach Hepburn as a California outdoorswoman, but if you can forget verisimilitude (hey, maybe she's a transplant), then the picture's a lightweight winner. From the hilarious early scene where a flustered Hepburn tells off a matronly golf aficionado by spitting out insults and strutting her stuff on the driving range to the extended sequence where she transforms Tracy into a damsel in distress, Pat and Mike is full of first-rate humor that plays off the actors' images while also injecting some novelty into the formula. A by-the-books subplot involving gangsters at least drives the plot and provides some laughs; but Aldo Ray's character, a dim-witted boxer, was a dried-up joke even in 1952. Still, Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin provide a remarkably economical script that fits celebrity cameos, sports footage, slowly dawning romance, and feminist dignity into a short (by today's standards) 95 minutes. Director George Cukor impressively fuses omantic comedy briskness with sports journalism and slapstick, even veering off into a memorable scene that plays like a bad acid trip on the tennis court. Adam's Rib may be regarded as the zenith of the Hepburn/Tracy union, but Pat and Mike ranks up there, too. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
 

Aldo Ray: Golden Globe, New Star of the Year - Male (nominated) Garson Kanin: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Story and Screenplay (nominated) George Cukor: Directors Guild of America, Best Director (nominated) Katharine Hepburn: Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or C (nominated) Ruth Gordon: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Story and Screenplay (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: English, French Sound Processing: 5.1: 5 full-range channels. Includes 3 for the front speakers, 2 surround channels for rear speakers, & 1 low-frequency effects (LFE) channel to carry deep bass effects 1: PCM mono Additional Features: Interactive menus Production notes Two theatrical trailers Scene access Subtitles: English & Français DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1: Pre-1954 Standard MPAA Rating: NR DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 95 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 0. Scene Selection 1. Credits [1:10] 2. Dressing the Part [3:10] 3. Play to Lose [3:49] 4. Teed Off [1:16] 5. Her Handicap [3:10] 6. A Finalist [1:13] 7. Mike's Proposal [4:25] 8. The Playoffs [4:36] 9. Frazzled [3:41] 10. Pat and Babe [2:31] 11. What's There Is Cherce [1:09] 12. Taking Charge [1:59] 13. Who Made Hucko? [2:08] 14. All-Around Athlete [4:50] 15. In Training [3:57] 16. The Tennis Pro [2:42] 17. Pat and Gussie [3:24] 18. Frazzle Again [3:52] 19. Joe Jinx [2:31] 20. Like Lobsters [1:43] 21. Seeing Things [3:19] 22. Another knockout? [1:39] 23. This Collier thing [3:30] 24. Pat and Hucko [2:40] 25. The Investors [7:34] 26. To His Rescue [3:40] 27. Just the Facts [4:50] 28. Mrs. Frankenstein [:59] 29. The Wrong Jockey [2:31] 30. What's the Use? [3:30] 31. "Together We Can Lick 'Em All" [1:33] 32. Three Big Question [:58] 33. Cast List [:42]