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Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/28/23 Full Review Shadowman4710 One of the best of the "Screwball Comedy" era, Bringing Up Baby is a blast from start to finish. Katherine Hepburn and ...
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- Katharine Hepburn
- Howard Hawks
- Comedy
What you will—and won't—find in this movie. Positive Messages. Even the most uptight people -- in this case, a si. Positive Role Models. Katherine Hepburn's feisty, bright independenc. Violence & Scariness. In this “screwball comedy” all action. Sex, Romance & Nudity. Flirting, some embracing, a few instances of gentl.
- RKO
- Howard Hawks
Bringing Up Baby delves joyfully beyond the stiff pretences of modern life to reveal the wild and lustful animal that still lies beneath the surface. One of the funnest films of the season that is ...
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- Extras 8/10
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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 · Theatrical Distributor: RKO Pictures. 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. Blu-ray review of Bringing Up Baby: The ...
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Sep 7, 2021 · Studio: The Criterion Collection. Sep 07, 2021 Web Exclusive By Stephen Danay. Arguably the apex of the screwball sub-genre that swept American comedies in the 1930s and early 1940s, Bringing Up Baby is also a high water mark in the careers of stars Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, as well as genre-hopping director Howard Hawks.
In his glorious Bringing Up Baby, Howard Hawks ratchets screwball comedy up to its tautest and springiest level. In clumsier hands, screwball all too often gallops into the frenetic, fraying the nerves; Hawks maintains a presto pace, but never lets the mixups and misunderstandings grow implausible he just glides serenely to something else.
