| Edition |
Two-DVD special edition. |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 17 cm) |
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optical rdarm |
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video file rdaft |
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DVD video |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 1085 |
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Criterion collection ; 1085.
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| Note |
Title from credits. |
| System Details |
DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; Dolby monaural. |
| Language |
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
| Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1938. |
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Based on the short story Bringing up baby by Hagar Wilde. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Russell Metty ; editor, George Hively ; music, Roy Webb. |
| Cast |
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Fritz Feld, Leona Roberts, George Irving, Tala Birell, Virginia Walker, John Kelly. |
| Summary |
"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. |
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Special features: audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich; new video essay on actor Cary Grant; new interview about cinematographer Russell Metty with cinematographer John Bailey; new interview with film scholar Craig Barron; new selected-scene commentary about costume designer Howard Greer; Howard Hawk:s A hell of good life, a 1977 documentary; audio interview from 1969 with Grant; audio excepts from 1972 conversation between Hawks and Bogdanovich; trailer; plus: an essay by critic Sheila O'Malley. |
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Wilde, Hagar -- Film adaptations.
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Heiresses -- Drama.
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Femmes fatales -- Drama.
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Leopards as pets -- Drama.
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Paleontologists -- Drama.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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Femmes fatales. (OCoLC)fst00922841
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Heiresses. (OCoLC)fst01747995
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Leopards as pets. (OCoLC)fst00996247
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Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
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Paleontologists. (OCoLC)fst01051511
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| Genre/Form |
Screwball comedy films.
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Feature films.
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Comedy films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Comedy films. (OCoLC)fst01710291
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
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Fiction films.
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| Added Author |
Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977, film director.
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Nichols, Dudley, 1895-1960, screenwriter.
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Wilde, Hagar, screenwriter.
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Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003, actor.
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Ruggles, Charlie, 1886-1970, actor.
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Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor.
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Catlett, Walter, 1889-1960, actor.
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Fitzgerald, Barry, 1888-1961, actor.
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Robson, May, 1858-1942, actor.
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Feld, Fritz, 1900-1993, actor.
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Roberts, Leona, 1879-1954, actor.
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Irving, George, 1874-1961, actor.
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Metty, Russell, editor of moving image work.
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Hively, George, director of photography.
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Webb, Roy, 1888-1982, composer (expression)
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Wilde, Hagar.
Bringing up Baby.
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RKO Radio Pictures, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781681438580 |
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1681438585 |
| Standard No. |
715515261517 |
| Music No. |
CC3276DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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