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Four librarians in the research department of a big corporation are in imminent danger of being replaced by a computer.

OK, this is nothing short of charming. Katherine Hepburn (head of reference) and Joan Blondell are librarians, Spencer Tracy is the forgetful and absentminded but brilliant engineer sent to create a computer that will do research, and the resulting dynamics are a total treat, even if you're not a librarian. If you ARE a librarian, and haven't seen this movie, what are you waiting for?

And of course, there's the fun of seeing 1957's vision of what a big computer looks like and how it works, a lot of fun as well.

Charming and witty, visually amusing, full of great plot twists and wonderful give-and-take between Hepburn and Tracy, this one is a real winner.