Bringing up Baby / RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. presents ; a Howard Hawks production ; screenplay by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde ; directed by Howard Hawks.
Edition:
Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 17 cm)
Title from title frame. Based on the short story Bringing up baby by Hagar Wilde. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1938. Special features: audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; new video essay on actor Cary Grant; new interview about cinematographer Russell Metty with cinematographer John Bailey; new interview with film scholar Craig Barron; new selected-scene commentary about costume designer Howard Greer; Howard Hark: A hell of good life, a 1977 documentary; audio interview from 1969 with Grant; audio excepts from 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich; trailer; plus: an essay by critic Sheila O'Malley. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Fritz Feld, Leona Roberts, George Irving, Tala Birell, Virginia Walker, John Kelly.
Summary:
"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine 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 investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) 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.
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