George Cukor's movie was released in 1949 and starred Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as Adam and Amanda Bonner, married lawyers who find themselves on opposite sides of a case when Amanda sides with a woman who assaults her philandering husband and Adam chooses to represent the man.
The movie was co-written by husband and wife Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, who is best known for her film roles in "Rosemary's Baby" as neighbor Minnie and as Maude in the movie "Harold and Maude."