Bringing up Baby

Author

Howard Hawks

Call Number

• DVD COMEDY (CEN)

Edition

Two-DVD special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Walter Catlett, Fritz Feld.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (102 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender-bending mayhem among them. Bringing Up Baby's sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, and giddy innuendo come together in a whirlwind of comic chaos captured with lightning-in-a-bottle brio by director Howard Hawks."--Container.

Notes

Based on the story by Hagar Wilde.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1938.

Special features: New 4K digital transfer ; audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich ; new video essay on actor Cary Grant by author Scott Eyman ; new interview about cinematographer Russell Metty with cinematographer John Bailey ; new interview with film scholar Craig Barron on special-effects pioneer Linwood Dunn ; new selected-scene commentary about costume designer Howard Greer featuring costume historian Shelly Foote ; Howard Hawks: a hell of good life, a 1977 documentary by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg featuring the director's last filmed interview ; audio interview from 1969 with Grant ; audio excepts from a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich ; trailer.