It has been said that Spencer Tracy treated Katharine Hepburn more harshly than schmaltzy legend might suggest. However, you would not guess it from this, their last movie together, in which the alliance works to dovetailing perfection. They're a rich couple whose liberal principles are tested by the proposed marriage of their daughter to a black doctor. As he is Sidney Poitier, all intellectual politesse, there's never any doubt about the outcome. The film may have a foregone conclusion, but it's worth watching as the acting is so good. Tracy and an Oscar-winning Hepburn were a deceptively rare cinema double-act, who seemed genuinely fond of each other both on and off screen.

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.