George Cukor directs Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Judy Holliday in this romantic comedy where husband and wife lawyers find themselves at opposing ends of a high profile attempted murder trial.

Didn’t grab me quite as firmly as other Hepburn & Tracy pairings. It is cute, they’re still great together, but I had issues. I know it’s a comedy but I struggled with the court case not being taken more seriously. I couldn’t fathom what the point scoring proved to the final verdict. And David Wayne’s predatory neighbour is annoying as fuck. Spencer Tracy should have run him and his piano out on a rail the first time he knocked around. Co-written by Ruth Gordon of Harold & Maude fame.

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Perfect Double Bill: Born Yesterday (1950)

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