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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


  • Devil At Four O'Clock on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Frank Sinatra,  Spencer Tracy,  Barbara Luna
    Director: Mervyn Le Roy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Spencer Tracy stars as Father Matthew Doonan, a priest who has lost his faith... and sobriety. A replacement cleric flies into the island to relieve him of his duties, accompanied by three manacled convicts (Frank Sinatra, Gregoire Aslan, and Bernie Hamilton) on their way to prison on the main ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 75 members
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  • Judgement At Nuremberg on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Burt Lancaster,  Richard Widmark
    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 1,143 member
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  • Inherit The Wind on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Gene Kelly,  Fredric March
    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 1,061 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 259 members
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  • Desk Set on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Katharine Hepburn,  Gig Young
    Director: Walter Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bunny Watson heads up a research department at the Federal Broadcasting Company, a major, TV network. And she does her job very well, thank you very much. Assigned by the network president to introduce computers into some of the department's functions, Richard Sumner arrives at Bunny's well-run ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 441 members
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  • Broken Lance on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Robert Wagner,  Jean Peters
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water. When questioned about the raid, to spare his father, his son, Joe takes responsibility and is sentenced to three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke, and so when Joe is released, he plans his revenge.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 173 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 60% from 1 member
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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 358 members
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  • Father's Little Dividend on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Joan Bennett,  Elizabeth Taylor
    Director: Vincente Minnelli
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    This sequel to the hugely popular FATHER OF THE BRIDE reunited the entire cast for another charming turn. Although Tracy's hoping for some peace and quiet now that Taylor's been married off, he soon learns he's in for more chaos as an expectant grandfather. Also in a computer colorized version.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 153 members
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  • Adam's Rib on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Katharine Hepburn,  Judy Holliday
    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 2,368 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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3 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 62% from 135 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 238 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.
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 7 members
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  • Marie Galante on DVD (1934)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Ketti Gallian,  Ned Sparks
    Director: Henry King
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This double feature presents the film MARIE GALANTE, along with the documentary SPENCER TRACY ON FILM.Based on the espionage thriller by Jacques Deval, Henry King's film follows a down-on-her-luck performer named Marie Galante (Ketti Gallian, in her first American film) as she is abducted by a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 54 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
Devil At Four O'Clock - 3.0 stars
Judgement At Nuremberg - 3.5 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 - 2.0 stars
George Stevens - A Filmmaker's Journey - 2.5 stars
The Sea of Grass - 2.5 stars
The Actress - 3.0 stars
Tracy & Hepburn - Signature Collection - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Katharine Hepburn - 10 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 - 5 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