Bringing Up Baby (Blu-Ray)

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.

Special fatures: 
– 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 featuring 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 and, for the Blu-ray, the 1937 short story by Hagar Wilde on which the film is based