AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

SimonJack "Pat and Mike" is one of nine movies that Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy made together. Most were comedies. This film showcases some of Hepburn's athletic abilities. Apparently, she was moderately good in a few sports. She learned to play tennis for this film and became quite good at it. There aren't a lot of laughs in this film. The screenplay is okay, but it has few witty lines. The humor mostly is in the relationships between characters and the characters themselves. Tracy is good as Mike Conovan, and Hepburn is good as Pat Pemberton. William Ching actually gives one of the best performances, as Pat's fiancé, Collier Weld. Aldo Ray is good for some laughs as Davie Hucko. This film doesn't rank up there with the better comedies of Hepburn and Tracy, but it's decent light entertainment. One of the things I like best about "Pat and Mike" is the scenes it has with Babe Didrikson Zaharias. The script has Pat in a major women's golf tournament, playing against Babe. Babe was a real living multi-talented female athlete. She was named athlete of the year six times from 1932 to 1954. She was a 1949 founding member of the Ladies PGA. She won numerous golfing tournaments, including 10 major LPGA championships. She won two gold medals in track and field in the 1932 Summer Olympics and she also played basketball. Babe died in 1956 from colon cancer She was just 46 years old. This isn't a film to run out and buy, but it's a good movie to watch on a rainy afternoon.

blanche-2 "Pat and Mike" from 1952 is a delightful Tracy-Hepburn film, one of nine they made together. I guess of all of them, Sea of Grass was the worst. But I digress.Pat (Hepburn) is an athletics teacher engaged to a somewhat domineering guy. She is told by the manager of a golf club (Jim Backus) that she has the goods to make the womens national golf team, and she should go for it. She does, and there, she's discovered by a marginal manager, Mike (Tracy), who gives her his card, even though the presence of her fiancée (William Ching) made her choke on her game and always does. Mike's managing consists of fixing events, but after he feels Pat out and realizes she's honest, and he sees how talented she is, he decides to take her on as a client. He at present has a boxer client (Aldo Ray) and a horse, Little Nell.Pat goes to see him after she quits her job. When Mike asks her if she can do anything besides golf, it turns out that golf isn't even her best sport. That's tennis. But she can also do sharpshooting and a bunch of other things. They go the tennis route. And without realizing it, their feelings go beyond manager and talent.Very good film, with real-life golf stars Babe Didrickson Zaharias and Gussy Moran on hand as golfers, and Charles Bronson and Chuck Conners in small roles.Pat and Mike works because of the tremendous chemistry between Tracy and Hepburn.

SnoopyStyle Pat Pemberton (Katharine Hepburn) is a great athlete and a coach. She tries to do whatever her fiancé Collier Weld (William Ching) needs even if it's deliberately losing. It's a great stress on their relationship. Charles Barry (Jim Backus) convinces her to enter into a golf tournament. Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy) is a shady sports promoter who tries to get her to finish second but she refuses. At critical moments, Collier's presence flusters her and she ends up second. Collier wants her to marry him and quit everything else. In desperation, she jumps off the train and seeks the help of Mike. It turns out that she's great at everything.The Hollywood couple has good chemistry. This is a fun rom-com. I don't like so much the sports action. They have a tendency to slow the movie down. Although it's interesting to see Hepburn actually playing those sports. It's still not shot very interestingly. Sports action at that time has yet to be shot excitingly.

George Wright During a friendship that last many years, Tracy and Hepburn made many movies together and this is a good example of the chemistry that existed between them. In this movie, directed by George Cukor, Hepburn plays an athlete who comes under the management of a small town sports promoter in Mike Conovan, played by Tracy. In the role of Pat Pemberton, Hepburn is a free-spirited woman with spunk and personality. Mike has a number of colorful characters as his clients. One of the gags lands the group in a police station explaining their actions to a puzzled sheriff, played Chuck Conners. The acting is good all round.The golf game between Pat and Babe Zaharias (outstanding golf pro in real life) translates beautifully to the screen with the crowd moving from green to green, golfers teeing off, putting and shooting into the rough. A very good movie, entertaining from start to finish, and a good chance to see Tracy and Hepburn in action.