bigverybadtom Certainly an intriguing concept-a Runyonesque story about a shady sports promoter who finds a female athlete and decides he can make her a big sports star and a moneymaker for himself, except that she only plays well when her domineering fiancée is not around. She turns out to be rebellious if either her fiancée or her promoter push her around too much. And there is good chemistry and interaction between the leads.Yet the movie has its faults too, namely being too long for what it is, with sports sequences that go one for longer than they need to, and the rather pointless inclusion of the boxer the promoter also has under his wing. Also, though the movie is presumably a comedy, it has few laughs in it. The movie tries, but it never quite satisfies in the end.

writers_reign This was a follow-up, albeit three years later, to Adam's Rib, featuring the same teams in front of and behind - Ruth Godon, Garson Kanin, George Cukor - the camera. By now Tracy and Hepburn were old hands at co-starring in both dramatic and comedy screenplays - Adam's Rib had, in fact, addressed serious issues though ostensibly a comedy and that is one reason why Pat and Mike, sound though it is, is slightly inferior. At a basic level it's the old chestnut about two diametrically opposed people from completely opposite words and social strata defying the odds and falling in love. The top dressing in this case is that Hepburn is a natural and gifted athlete in various disciplines and Tracy is a promotoe/manager, who sees a buck in promoting her. That's really all there is to it apart from a superfluous sub-plot that sees Hepburn unable to function whenever her fiancé, William Ching is watching and she can see him in the crowd. Watchable enough certainly and light years ahead of anything similar today.

nomoons11 There's no doubt that Tracy and Hepburn are the best male/female film duo of all time. They had chemistry like Doritos and an Ice cold glass of Milk. This film I must say wasn't even close to their best offerings.Right off the bat, within the first 5 minutes, we go from her fiancé' wants her to throw a golf match so the other couple will finance a wing to a school or sumthin. Immediately after this we get her involved in a golf tournament and she wants to prove herself. Hepburn is so manic throughout this film it starts to get irritating after a while. I mean she's so confident about her sporting skills but when her fiancé' shows up she's a mess. How bout telling him to buzz off? By the time this film was made Hepburn was well into her 40's, she was no spring chicken so for me or anyone to believe she was winning one tennis match after another lacks a bit of credibility.Obviously the studios knew this would be a winner because of the success of their earlier films but this one, your better off with State of the Union or Woman of the Year or even Desk Set. This one was just, for lack of a better word,....flat.

[email protected] "Pat and Mike" is one of the many collaborations between Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and it is, of course, a romantic comedy. As everyone knows, Hepburn and Tracy were real-life lovers, and the chemistry between them lights up the screen in this as in their other movies. Since everyone also knows the formula, it's obvious, long before they do, that Hepburn and Tracy will wind up together. "Pat and Mike" is one of Hepburn's better comic turns as a professional athlete unafraid to step into the middle of a fight to protect tough guy Tracy from gangster associates when they try to rough him up because he hasn't persuaded Pat to cooperate with their crooked gambling scheme. As in most of the Hepburn/Tracy movies, the premise doesn't much matter. The magic is between them, no matter the characters, no matter the story, and it is wonderful to watch since I can think of no present day movie couples who generate this kind of electricity and deliver this much fun.