A playful allusion to the Book of Genesis, ADAM'S RIB is an inspired farce and perhaps the best showcase for the fantastic Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn duo. George Cukor uses... more
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Adam's Rib [1949]
Adam's Rib, released in 1949, was one of the on-screen peaks for the matchless pairing of
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Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. George Cukor's instinctively light touch on the director's tiller, the wittiest of Garson Kanin scripts and apparently effort...
Adam's Rib [1949]
Adam's Rib, released in 1949, was one of the on-screen peaks for the matchless pairing of
... more
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. George Cukor's instinctively light touch on the director's tiller, the wittiest of Garson Kanin scripts and apparently effort...
Advantages: Fantastic, intelligent, witty, ironic, well-acted comedy Disadvantages: Not a one
When I was a about 8 years of age and growing up in Ireland, the state broadcaster RTE, for reasons best known to themselves spent two weeks showing a Spencer Tracey film every night. Perhaps it was because he was a Catholic actor and therefore on the ‘approved list’, perhaps it was because all his films had come out of copyright and could be shown without having to pay royalties or perhaps it was because someone in the broadcasting department was ... ...stay up for the first time in my life until 10.30 every night (but only because it was the Summer holidays) and so I got to see ten of these magical films. They taught me a lot, that love takes work, that conventionally handsome men can be a little vapid and empty and that Spencer Tracey when teamed with Katherine Hepburn was the most magical combination of actors that a genius producer could put together.
Think of famous ‘screen couples’ now and ...
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Actor(s): Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen
Director(s): George Cukor
Genre: Comedy
Classification: Universal
Production Year: 1949
Colour: Black & White
Running Time: 1 hour 37 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: A Hollywood comedy classic which studies a battle of the sexes between husband and wife lawyers on opposite sides in a murder case.
DVD Description
A playful allusion to the Book of Genesis, ADAM'S RIB is an inspired farce and perhaps the best showcase for the fantastic Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn duo. George Cukor uses the chemistry between his stars to create a delightful, sophisticated comedy about the battle between the sexes, based on a sharp and sprightly Oscar-nominated script by Cukor's collaborators, Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. When two married lawyers take opposite sides of a case, they create comic fireworks both in and out of court. District Attorney Adam Bonner (Spencer Tracy) prosecutes a young woman, Doris Attinger (Judy Holliday), who has shot her philandering husband's mistress; her attorney and Bonner's wife, Amanda (Katharine Hepburn), is determined to prove that the prosecution's case is only a reflection of sexist double standards. Amanda thinks that women should have the right to do exactly what men have done for years--get revenge. ADAM'S RIB is a film that is superbly directed, written, and acted, a true romantic comedy in classic Cukor style.
