DESK SET
(20th Century-Fox)
G
Cert.
ESK SET amuses in a different way . from Bread, Love and Dreams, and no doubt it will attract longer queues. In a way this is a pity, for this new Katherine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy comedy doesn’t make the most of its opportunities. Still, together and apart Miss Hepburn and Mr Tracy remain among the most talented and likeable players in Hollywood, and even in this film with its imperfections they have some very funny scenes: Miss Hepburn sitting an intelligence test set by Mr Tracy over sandwiches on a windy skyscraper roof, for instance-she has expected quite a different sort of setting for lunch -or Mr Tracy caught in a dressing gown in Miss Hepburn’s flat when her fiancé unexpectedly calls, Directed by Walter Lang, Desk Set is about life in the reference department of a big American broadcasting company when Mr Tracy is given the chance to show that one of his electronic brains can do more efficiently much of the work that has been done by Miss Hepburn and her staff. The humour includes a bit of mild slinging off at electronic brains, which should have had rather more edge. Desk Set will certainly keep you pleasantly entertained and in some places should give you some real laughs. But it does tail off a bit and could have been more consistently amusing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 23
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229DESK SET New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 23
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