** Shrill, unfunny and unconvincing

One of the most overrated and disappointing so-called "classics" I have seen recently.

Tracy and Hepburn are enormously talented (obviously) and so is director George Cukor, but the Gordon/Kanin script lets them down big time. None of the "wisecracks" is particularly funny. Few of Hepburn's legal tactics seem remotely plausible, and what bearing the testimony of a parade of successful working females could have on a trial for attempted-homicide is never made clear. It is all just shrill, noisy, irrelevant and stupid, like most of the film.

And the ending (wrapping up the strained relationship between married lawyers Tracy and Hepburn) is attenuated and unconvincing.

This is supposed to be the best movie Tracy and Hepburn made together??

Man I hope not.

I love many, many movies from that era. In fact Hollywood's output from roughly 1944-1950 represents, along with the 15 years from 1967-1982, my favorite era in American film.

But ADAM'S RIB disappointed me.