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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1952 DVD Release: 09/19/2000 Format: DVD - Black and White Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 35 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Sports Comedy

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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Spencer Tracy - Mike Conovan
Katharine Hepburn - Pat Pemberton
Aldo Ray - Davie Hucko
Jim Backus - Charles Barry
William Ching - Collier Weld
Sammy White - Barney Grau

George Cukor's Pat and Mike comes to DVD with a standard full-frame 1.33:1 transfer (as all films produced before 1955 should). A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. English and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include production notes and a pair of theatrical trailers. The performances by the great screen duo of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are the real highlight of this disc. Fans of their work will certainly want to see this DVD. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide