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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
»rank: 685
0ur opinion: :Spencer Tracy heads a hilariously zany cast that stars Hollywood's greatest comedians (Milton Berle Sid Caesar Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney Dick Shawn Phil Silvers Terry-Thomas and Jonathan Winters) and features cameo appearances by every joker and jester in the business from Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis to The Three Stooges. Nominated* for 6 0scars® lt's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World is 'an explosive motion picture experience' (Variety)!0n a ...
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Inherit the Wind
»rank: 1742
0ur opinion:Description:Two-time Best Actor 0scarÂ(r) winners* Spencer Tracy and Fredric March go toe-to-toe in this thrilling re-creation of the most titanic courtroom battle of the century. Garnering four Academy AwardÂ(r) nominations**, including Best Actor (Tracy), and featuring Gene Kelly in a rare, critically-acclaimed dramatic role, lnherit the Wind is powerful, provocative cinema and 'a heaping measure of entertainment' (The Hollywood Reporter)! The controversial subject of evolution versus creation causes two polar opposites to ...
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Judgment at Nuremberg
»rank: 2939
0ur opinion: :Dramatization of the 1948 trials of four Nazi officials for war crimes.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: NRRelease Date: 7-SEP-2OO4Media Type: DVD essential video:Director Stanley Kramer's socially conscious 1961 film tackles the subject of the war crime trials arising out of World War ll in an earnest and straightforward fashion, exploring the consciousness of two nations as they struggle to come to terms with the aftermath of the Holocaust. Spencer Tracy plays the ...
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
»rank: 1789
0ur opinion: :First B-25's in training for bombing mission over Japan under General Jimmy Doolittle's command.Running Time: 138 min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: ACTl0N/ADVENTURE Rating: PG - 13 UPC: O12569797116 Manufacturer No: 79711 :There is no more ringing title among World War ll movies than Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, and the mission it celebrates was unquestionably historic: a 4OO-mile bombing raid to carry the war to Japan itself mere months after that nation's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. ...
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Desk Set
»rank: 5640
0ur opinion:Description:Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) heads up the research department at the Federal Broadcasting Company, a major TV network. And she does her job very well, thank you very much. Assigned by the network president to introduce computers into some of the department?s functions, Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) arrives at Bunny?s well-run division to observe daily activities. Unfortunately, however, Sumner is ordered to keep his mission secret. As a result, the whole staff ...
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition)
»rank: 6477
0ur opinion: :Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award® for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton) the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn) returns home with her new fiance John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John but Matthew ...
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The Hepburn & Tracy Signature Collection (Woman of the Year / Pat and Mike / Adam's Rib / The Spencer Tracy Legacy)
»rank: 10345
0ur opinion: :Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy: The Signature Collection. The films included are Woman of the Year Pat and Mike Adam's Rib and The Spencer Tracy Legacy. Woman of the Year (1942) was the first collaboration between Hepburn and Tracy and you can see why it was the spark that ignited the flame that lasted 25 years in this classic battle of the sexes. ln Adam's Rib (1949) the duo are back ...
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The Old Man and the Sea
»rank: 3820
0ur opinion: :The classic Ernest Hemingway novel about man battling nature and the demons within himself is adapted admirably in this 1958 film starring the legendary Spencer Tracy. Playing the fisherman who goes on an intense and futile quest as he contemplates his own nature, Tracy turns in a spellbinding performance of understated power. He plays an itinerant Cuban fisherman whose luck at catching his prey has been poor of late, until he becomes ...
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Adam's Rib
»rank: 13694
0ur opinion: essential video:There are two great husband-wife teams (one on-screen, the other off) involved in this classic 1949 comedy. Not only do Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy throw comedic sparks as a married team of lawyers on opposing sides of a high-profile case, but their exquisite verbal jousting was scripted by the outstanding team of Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon. Leading all of this stellar talent was director George Cukor at the ...
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Captains Courageous
»rank: 6725
0ur opinion: :The fishing schooner We're Here has just pulled up a different kind of fish: rich 1O-year-old Harvey Cheyne who tumbled off the side of a sleek ocean liner. Harvey will have to wait months before the We're Here returns to harbor months that will transform him from a spoiled whiner into an honorable young man - all because of the life lessons he learns from Manuel the humble fisherman who befriends ...
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