Pat and Mike

Spencer Tracy Director: George Cukor George Cukor

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/18/2020
UPC:	0883929718412
Original Release:	1952
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[Full Frame]
Time:	1:35:00

Special Features

Theatrical trailer; Teaser trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Spencer Tracy	Mike Conovan
Katharine Hepburn	Pat Pemberton
Aldo Ray	Davie Hucko
Jim Backus	Charles Barry
William Ching	Collier Weld
Sammy White	Barney Grau
Chuck Connors	Police Captain
George Mathews	Spec Cauley
Loring Smith	Mr. Beminger
Phyllis Povah	Mrs. Beminger
Frank Richards	Sam Garsell
Owen McGiveney	Harry MacWade
Lou Lubin	Waiter
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer	Bus Boy
Bill Self	Pat's Caddy
Gussie Moran	Herself
Babe Didrikson Zaharias	Herself
Don Budge	Himself
Alice Marble	Herself
Betty Hicks	Herself
Beverly Hanson	Herself
Helen Dettweiler	Sports Star
Joe Bernard	Gibby
Paul Brinegar	Actor
Russ Clark	Trooper
Mae Clarke	Woman Golfer
John Close	Actor
Fred Coby	Actor
Frankie Darro	Actor
Kay Deslys	Shooting Gallery Proprietor
Helen Eby-Rock	Woman Golfer
Kay English	Actor
Tom Gibson	Actor
Pancho Gonzales	Actor
Cameron A. Grant	Reporter
Tom Harmon	Sportscaster
Sam Hearn	Lawyer
Crauford Kent	Tennis Umpire
Louis Mason	Railway Conductor
Bill McLean	Actor
King Mojave	Linesman
Charlie Murray	Line Judge
Franklin Parker	Himself
Sam Pierce	Actor
Hank Weaver	Commentator
Jerry Schumacher	Actor
Bill Lewin	Actor
Charles Buchinsky	Hank Tasling

Technical Credits

Ruth Gordon

Garson Kanin

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

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Pat and Mike
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. ... 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. Frazzled 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..." [1:33]
32. Three Big Questions. [:58]
33. Cast List. [:42]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Pat and Mike
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      Theatiecal Teaser Trailer
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      Soundtracks: English
      English Subtitles: On
      Français Subtitles: On
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Editorial Reviews

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 romantic 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.

All Movie Guide - Brian J. Dillard