Pat and Mike (1952)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Pat (Kate Hepburn) is a women's sports sensation unless her fiancé is around. Her new shady manager Mike keeps them apart and develops feelings for her.Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon were friends with Hepburn and Tracy, and had the idea of writing a film to showcase Hepburn's athletic abilities. She was an avid golfer and tennis player, and indeed performed all the sports footage in the film herself.I continue to maintain that Katharine Hepburn may be the most overrated actress in the history of Hollywood. She has no range, no emotion. But when paired when Spencer Tracy, her films aren't too bad, because he really does a fine job of adding some personality to the screen. This is by no means as good as "The Desk Set", for example, but still a decent combination.

I never realized how good an actress Katherine Hepburn is and in this movie as well as Adam's ribs she didn't deceive me. The movie is watchable although a little long on sports scenes and i didn't see the point of Aldo Rays role too much. Fun to see familiar faces in this film such as Charles Bronson......Chuck CONNORS.....Phylis Povah....and the next one though uncredited I'm proud of having discovered him....being french and a film buff was all excited to find....James Brown of RIN TIN TIN acting as a photographer...hope I'm not wrong I'm such a movie fanatic. All and all i enjoyed the movie and say you must see it at least once.

I'm not really a sports fan and watching it on TV, especially golf is just a bit of a no-no. Therefore, that side of things wasn't going to keep me hooked.What does, of course is the famous Hepburn/Tracy coupling and every scene that they're in has that rare chemistry these days - of people on the same wavelength, actually liking each other. The fact that that is underestimating it, to say the least would not surprise the viewer who didn't know at the time and delight further those who did.Neither one is my favourite actor, by quite a long way but together there's an easy, natural charm that makes a story - almost any story tick along like a Swiss watch. It's quite daft in places, possibly adding to its charm and is largely forgettable, though the premise of a female tennis and golf pro needing a shot in the arm by a cynical coach is now no longer new, it must have seemed fresh exactly 60 years ago.It's great also to see Charles Bronson in his first feature, though he's listed as Charles Buchinski. There's also Hepburn's distracting and pest of a fiancée, played by William Ching and a rather stupid boxer that Tracy has on his books, played by Aldo Ray.This isn't the greatest pairing of the couple ever made but a good one and I watched this DVD as part of the Tracy & Hepburn Collection, the others in it being Keeper of the Flame, Woman of the Year and Adam's Rib.

"Pat and Mike" is one of the many collaborations between Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and it is, of course, a romantic comedy. As everyone knows, Hepburn and Tracy were real-life lovers, and the chemistry between them lights up the screen in this as in their other movies. Since everyone also knows the formula, it's obvious, long before they do, that Hepburn and Tracy will wind up together. "Pat and Mike" is one of Hepburn's better comic turns as a professional athlete unafraid to step into the middle of a fight to protect tough guy Tracy from gangster associates when they try to rough him up because he hasn't persuaded Pat to cooperate with their crooked gambling scheme. As in most of the Hepburn/Tracy movies, the premise doesn't much matter. The magic is between them, no matter the characters, no matter the story, and it is wonderful to watch since I can think of no present day movie couples who generate this kind of electricity and deliver this much fun.