Well, this starts off in a quite original fashion — Katharine Hepburn is affianced to this insufferable dork. Presumably Spencer Tracy is going to arrive to make her dump him?
There he is.
Heh heh.
OK, this is a golfing movie? There’s been a lot of golfing on the screen. It’s kinda contemplative, I guess…
If this movie was being filmed today, they’d have approx. seven extras. Instead of approx. seven hundred.
This is moving very, very slowly. I really enjoy Hepburn’s performance, but I’m also kinda itching for the movie to actually start, and we’re now 30 minutes in.
She does her own stunts!
I can’t tell whether this is science fiction or not. Was “pro tennis” a thing? Is it a thing? Did people really go to a lil stadium to watch some random people play tennis? I mean, in 1952, people had TVs, right, so they could watch Lucille Ball instead?
Hm… perhaps TVs were still expensive?
Making the most out of it.
We had half an hour of Hepburn playing golf, and are we now getting half an hour of her playing tennis? It seems that way…
Aldo Ray is great fun as the dim boxer.
OK, I don’t get this movie. There’s people saying that it’s their favourite, and etc etc. And:
Gordon and Kanin were nominated for the 1952 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for their work on Pat and Mike.
Nominated for the screenplay!? This movie had a screenplay!?
After the other two very good Hepburn/Tracy movies, this is a letdown. It’s not that it’s annoying or anything, but it’s just not very entertaining — the endless shots of Hepburn sportsing just aren’t fascinating. There’s some scenes of repartee, but it’s just a lazy movie in that regard — Aldo Ray has the funniest lines, and he floats by on his character’s dim charm.
So I don’t get it.
Pat and Mike. George Cukor. 1952. ⚂
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