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With Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant at their effervescent best, Bringing Up Baby is a seamlessly assembled comedy with enduring appeal. Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. Dec 26, 2023. TOP...
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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 e...
The Criterion Collection brings Howard Hawks’ screwball classic Bringing Up Babyto Blu-ray, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1 on a dual-layer disc. The 1080p/24hz high-definition encode is sourced from a new 4K restoration performed by Criterion. Warner’s original DVD edition, while decent for what it was, showed a film tha...
The lossless PCM 1.0 monaural soundtrack is a product of its time but it still manages to sound better than I was expecting. Dialogue is clean and sharp, managing to have some decent fidelity behind it. Range isn’t too bad, though the higher ends border on coming off edgy. But there is no severe damage to speak of, no drops, pops, or cracks.
Criterion packs on a decent amount of material, starting things off with director Peter Bogdanovich’s audio commentary, which was recorded for Warner’s DVD back in 2005. Bogdanovich’s What’s Up Doc?—an ode to the screwball comedies of Hollywood’s Golden Age—takes a lot from Hawks’ film so I guess he’s a natural go-to to talk about the film and its ...
Criterion's new edition improves upon Warner's old DVD in every way, providing a better selection of supplements and a significantly better visual presentation. Certainly worth the upgrade. BUY AT:
Jul 11, 2021 · Official Site: Release Date: February 18, 1938. DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: July 6, 2021. Synopsis: While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
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On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 97% based on 68 reviews, with an average rating of 9/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "With Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant at their effervescent best, Bringing Up Baby is a seamlessly assembled comedy with enduring appeal." [48]
Oct 18, 2010 · Imagine a comedy with a script more twisty than Inception and has the two of the most popular "serious" actors around make fools of themselves. It couldn't and wouldn't be done today. No synopsis...
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Jul 15, 2021 · July 15, 2021. Howard Hawks’s 1938 screwball classic Bringing Up Baby is so astounding in its verbosity, so breakneck in its pacing, that it threatens to swallow viewers up if they don’t quickly adjust to its off-kilter, almost musical rhythms.
Bringing Up Baby: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett. While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
