Bringing Up Baby (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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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 (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.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• 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 with costume historian Shelly Foote
• Howard Hawks: A Hell of a Good Life, a 1977 documentary by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg featuring the director’s last filmed interview
• Audio interview from 1969 with Grant
• Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley

MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.77 x 5.31 x 0.63 inches; 3.53 ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Howard Hawks
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray
Release date ‏ : ‎ July 6, 2021
Actors ‏ : ‎ Barry Fitzgerald, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Catlett
Studio ‏ : ‎ The Criterion Collection
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B092PB73RZ
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
Best Sellers Rank: #2,038 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV) #232 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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