Bringing Up Baby (1938)

[dylrichard02]

https://www.criterion.com/films/29010-bringing-up-baby

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.

- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- 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

Release Date: July 6, 2021

[Winslow Leach]

Holy sh*t! One of my all-time favorite films. I'm beyond excited!

[Warm Gun]

From that angle, he really doesn't look like Cary Grant.

[movieben1138]

I guess I'm going to have stop saying, "Why is such-and-such piece of dreck on blu-ray and not BRINGING UP BABY?!!"

Thank you, Criterion!

[tama]

Day 1

[BamaDullard]

Those screencaps look very, very good.

[Flapperdame16]

Yes- I'm pre ordering this one.

[klauswhereareyou]

Seems like this was rumored as a Criterion release for years now.

[dylrichard02]

Great director and two great leads! I am excited for this one!

[HipsterTrash]

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

From that angle, he really doesn't look like Cary Grant.

He looks like Gregory Peck.

[Mattmck99]

Finally!!

[IndyFan12]

One of the biggest blind spots in all of classic Hollywood...about time! Can't wait.

[SeanJoyce]

The "Criterion Gary Grant" tribune continues, and my Howard Hawks Blu-ray collection gains an inestimable piece.

HELL YES

[Monterey Jack]

Really astounding it took this long for THE definitive screwball comedy to receive a Blu release.

[bonehica]

DAY ONE!! Especially since this should arrive smack dab in the middle of the B&N sale. Been a good year for Hawks so far!

[CouncilSpectre]

We really are in the end times now!

Day one obviously

[traths]

My July B&N sale list keeps getting longer and longer. I can finally knock Bringing Up Baby off my most wanted list.

[The Coconut God]

Originally Posted by Warm Gun

From that angle, he really doesn't look like Cary Grant.

People complain that Criterion's screwball comedies covers don't look like the actors even when they're NOT cartoons.

[gates70]

Hells yeah!!! Day 1.

[gkolb]

Fantastic! Can’t wait to get this.