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  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World review by A customer from manchester
    Rated - 4.0 stars worth watching if only for the stars 4 November 2005
    ...n written across it? Loads of stars in it, with Phil Silvers trying to outshine Spencer Tracy and Terry Thomas. Pure escapism. ...   Read customer review
  • Adam's Rib
  • Adam's Rib review by from Colchester, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Funny and charming 3 November 2004
    ...eorge Cukor, the director of 'Philadelphia Story' and 'My Fair Lady', directing Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in a comedy about a husband and wife who end up on opposi...   Read customer review
  • Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde
  • Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde review by A customer from Bedfordshire, UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars Two versions of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 19 August 2005
    ...ersion of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, but this double-sided DVD contains the 1941/42 Spencer Tracy version as well. If you like the Robert Louis Stevenson story and enjoy old fil...   Read customer review

Spencer Tracy - filmography


  • Judgement At Nuremberg on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Spencer Tracy,  Montgomery Clift
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    "Judgment at Nuremberg" explores the post-World War II war crimes committed by the Third Reich through a series of trials held in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Dan Haywood is oversees the trials of four German judges -specifically Dr. Ernst Janning and Emil Hahn - accused of knowingly sentencing ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,227 member
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  • Devil At Four O'Clock on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Kerwin Mathews,  Barbara Luna,  Barbara
    Director: Mervyn Le Roy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Classic adventure starring Frank Sinatra and Spencer Tracy. A seaplane lands on the island of Talua to unload three criminals-including Harry (Sinatra) and a young priest, Father Perreau (Kerwin Mathews), who has come to succeed ageing, irascible Father Doonan (Tracy). When an earthquake and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 84 members
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  • Inherit The Wind on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Dick York,  Florence Eldridge
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspiration was the 1925 Monkey Trial, in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 1,129 member
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  • The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Felipe Pazos,  Harry Bellaver
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The classic adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel starring Spencer Tracy. Simple and allegorical film tells of a fisherman who catches a magnificent marlin and must defy the sea and its dangers to bring his catch home safely.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 271 members
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  • Desk Set on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Gig Young,  Katharine Hepburn,  Spencer Tracy
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set represents the eighth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn plays the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays an efficiency expert, hired to modernize Hepburn's operation. When Tracy has a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 486 members
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  • Broken Lance (1954)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Robert Wagner,  Richard Widmark
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Spencer Tracy stars in the award winning western featuring a 'King Lear' like struggle between a father and his children, a remake of Mankiewicz's 'House of Strangers'. Tracy plays the ageing land baron Matt Devereaux, who remarries and then finds that his empire is threatened by brotherly betrayal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 191 members
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  • The Actress (1953)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Jean Simmons,  Teresa Wright
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In 1914 Wallacestone (located outside of Boston), the Joneses are just making ends meet, and only if parents, Clinton and Annie, watch every cent that they spend. However, their seventeen year old daughter, Ruth, has no such concerns as she is single minded in her pursuit of wanting to become a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 5 members
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  • Pat and Mike on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Katharine Hepburn,  William Ching
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The sun will sneak past a rooster before sports promoter Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy) lets opportunity pass hime 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 ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 390 members
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  • Father's Little Dividend on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Marietta Canty,  Bill Burke
    Director: Vincente Minnelli
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    In this sequel to 1950's 'Father of the Bride', Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy) has to cope with the prospect of becoming a grandfather. His fears that his peace and quiet will be shattered increase as the big day comes nearer. Elizabeth Taylor stars as the mother-to-be.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 165 members
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  • Adam's Rib on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Katharine Hepburn,  Spencer Tracy,  David Wayne
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib is a peerless comedy predicated on the double standard. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play Adam and Amanda Bonner, a husband-and-wife attorney team, both drawn to a case of attempted murder. The defendant (Judy Holliday) had tearfully ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,445 members
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  • State of the Union on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Katharine Hepburn,  Spencer Tracy,  Angela Lansbury
    Director: Frank Capra
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Frank Capra directs Spender Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in this classic satirical comedy. Tracy plays Grant Matthews, a prospective candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, backed by his mistress, newspaper mogul Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury). In order to present a more wholesome ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 400 members
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  • The Sea of Grass (1947)
    Starring: Katharine Hepburn,  Spencer Tracy,  Robert Walker
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a husband and wife on America's frontier; cattlemen in a "Sea of Grass". The wife has an affair which produces a child, and she is ostracised from the community. Meanwhile, the farmers watch helplessly as the sea of grass is exploited until it becomes a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 4 members
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  • Northwest Passage on DVD (1940)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy
    Director: King Vidor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 154 members
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  • Boys Town on DVD (1938)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Mickey Rooney,  Henry Hull
    Director: Norman Taurog
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for his portrayal of Father Flanagan, who opens Boys Town and dedicates himself to helping juvenile delinquents go straight. Mickey Rooney plays one of the tougher kids, figuring out early on that Flanagan is nobody's fool.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 258 members
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  • Captains Courageous on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Melvyn Douglas,  Lionel Barrymore
    Director: Victor Fleming
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. Young Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is the working definition of a spoiled brat; the only child of a wealthy widowed businessman, Harvey ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 512 members
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  • Fury (1936)
    Starring: Sylvia Sidney,  Walter Abel,  George Walcott
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 13 members
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  • Marie Galante on DVD (1934)
    Starring: Ketti Gallian,  Ned Sparks,  Spencer Tracy
    Director: Henry King
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Marie Galante (Ketti Gallian) is a young woman abducted by a sea captain and abandoned in the Yucatan, where she is forced to make her living as a singer. No-one believes her kidnap tale until she meets detective Crawbett (Spencer Tracy), with whom she subsequently becomes embroiled in a tale of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 56 members
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Spencer Tracy facts

5 most recent films

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - 3.5 stars
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - 3.5 stars
Judgement At Nuremberg - 3.5 stars
Devil At Four O'Clock - 3.0 stars
Inherit The Wind - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Bad Day At Black Rock - 4.0 stars
Inherit The Wind - 4.0 stars
Judgement At Nuremberg - 3.5 stars
Captains Courageous - 3.5 stars
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Me and My Gal - 2.5 stars
George Stevens - A Filmmaker's Journey - 2.5 stars
The Sea of Grass - 3.0 stars
The Actress - 3.0 stars
Fury - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Katharine Hepburn - 11 times - show films
Joan Bennett - 4 times - show films
Elizabeth Taylor - 4 times - show films
Mickey Rooney - 3 times - show films
Don Taylor - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stanley Kramer - 6 times - show films
George Cukor - 5 times - show films
George Stevens - 3 times - show films
Vincente Minnelli - 3 times - show films
John Sturges - 2 times - show films