Pat and Mike (BD)

Pat and Mike (BD)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

and genre icon Charles McGraw (The Narrow Margin) has an uncredited role

And it is a affectionate evocation of time and place based on the son's popular remembrance A Genius in the Family and filmed during the era of the comparably nostalgic Life with Father

Master Sgt

Tyrone Power plays her ardent beloved

tragedy and redemption

But when both Lund and bandleader Van Johnson fall head over heels for Esther

Director William A

Duc de Villiers

and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere

Joe Flynn and Richard Deacon

run afoul of shore patrol and of course

Leone's first credited film as a director