Pat and Mike (BD) "ALLOWDISCOUNT"

Pat and Mike (BD) "ALLOWDISCOUNT"The sun will sneak by a rooster before sports promoter Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy) lets opportunity pass him by. So the first time he sees genteel Pat Pemberton (Katharine Hepburn) swing a five iron, he decides to ink her to a pro contract. "Not much meat on her ," Mike later says, "but what's there is cherce." For this chercest of romantic comedies, George Cukor directs, Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin provide the Oscar nominated screenplay, and a deft

Blending boyish charm with a threat of danger

Lucille Ball reigned as the "queen of the Bs" for RKO pictures

Finding themselves sabotaged

" Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre) as the mysterious Irene Von Mohr

Merle Wye (Jim Hutton) is tasked with capturing the infamous "Bottletop

John Frankenheimer made his feature film debut with this sensitive father-son drama about troubled youth

Hedy Lamarr (The Heavenly Body) headlines a cast of Casablanca veterans (Paul Henreid and "The Masters of Mystery

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But looks can be deceiving

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Dartmouth football heroes Johnny Baker (William Gargan) and Sandy Brown (Joel McCrea) - famed for their Baker-to-Brown passing game - go their separate ways after graduation: Johnny to the editor's desk of a newspaper sports page and Sandy to the promotional schemes of a wrestling manager nicknamed Shifty

And while Blaine's girlfriend (Dickinson) would rather he avoid a showdown