Bringing up Baby [blu-ray]

"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.

General Note:

Based on the short story Bringing up baby by Hagar Wilde.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1938.

Full screen.

Special features: 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 Hark: 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 1972 conversation between Hawks and Boddanovich; trailer; plus: an essay by critic Sheila O'Malley and the 1937 short story by Hagar Wilde on which the film is based.

Performers:

Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Fritz Feld, Leona Roberts, George Irving, Tala Birell, Virginia Walker, John Kelly.

Technical Details:

Blu-ray, region A; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; monaural; requires Blu-ray player.

Subject Term:

Heiresses -- Drama.

Femmes fatales -- Drama.

Leopards as pets -- Drama.

Paleontologists -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Genre:

Screwball comedy films.

Comedy films.

Feature films.