It's The Hilarious Answer To Who Wears The Pants!
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
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Classical in form, comic, spare and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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“Does Katharine Hepburn steal Adam's Rib from Spencer Tracy?”
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- barrymoston TMDB · Sep 20198/10
Directed by George Cukor, this is said to be one of the better Tracy/Hepburn efforts, and it is pretty funny, at that. Judy Holliday is always a delight, and her performance here as the woman on trial for pulling a gun on her husband and his lover is no exception. Very witty script is written with a good deal of intelligence, and while the laughs aren't constant, they're certainly worth it when they do come.
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Cast
- Spencer TracyAdam Bonner
- Katharine HepburnAmanda Bonner
- Judy HollidayDoris Attinger
- Tom EwellWarren Attinger
- David WayneKip Lurie
- Jean HagenBeryl Caighn
- Hope EmersonOlympia La Pere
- Eve MarchGrace
- Clarence KolbJudge Reiser
- Emerson TreacyJules Frikke
Crew
- George CukorDirector
- Ruth GordonScreenplay
- Garson KaninScreenplay
- George J. FolseyDirector of Photography
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
- George BoemlerEditor
- Lawrence WeingartenProducer
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