- Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald
- Directors: Howard Hawks
- Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
- Language English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Turner Home Ent
- DVD Release Date: 1 Mar 2005
- Run Time: 102 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0007TKNCY
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 143,867 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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"The love impulse in man", says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse" yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster.) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? --Robert Horton
Amazon.co.uk Review
"The love impulse in man," says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby, "frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." That's for sure. For a primer on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and conflict into close proximity, look no further. A straight-laced paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress Katharine Hepburn. In trying to retrieve said bone, Grant is drawn into the vortex surrounding the delicious Hepburn, which becomes a flirtatious pas de deux that will transform both of them. Director Howard Hawks plays the complications as a breathless escalation of their "love impulse," yet the movie is nonetheless romantic for all its speed. (Hawks's His Girl Friday, also with Grant, goes even faster.) Grant and Hepburn are a match made in movie heaven, in sync with each other throughout. Not a great box-office success when first released, Bringing Up Baby has since taken its place as a high-water mark of the screwball form, and it was used as a model for Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? --Robert Horton
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a terrific, old fashioned, madcap, screwball comedy. Deftly directed by Howard Hawkes, the pace is frenetic from the get-go and never lets up. Starring Cary Grant, as a straight-laced paleontologist, and Katherine Hepburn, as an impulsive and beautiful heiress, this film is simply about as good as comedy gets.
The plot itself is simple. David Huxley (Cary Grant), a noted paleontologist, is trying to get a philanthropical grant of money for his museum from a wealthy donor. In his quest for this charitable gift, he runs into Susan (Katherine Hepburn), who, unbeknownst to him, is the niece and prospective heiress to his potential philanthropist's fortune. Once David meets up with this madcap heiress, his life will never be the same.
The film is noted for its highly improbable situations, its rat-a-tat-tat, staccato delivery of lines, its frenetic pacing, and impeccable comedic timing. Toss in a missing dinosaur bone, a little dog with a fondness for such, a domesticated leopard (if there is such a thing), a not so tame leopard, a great cast and script, and voila, one ends up with a great film!
Cary Grant is marvelous as David Huxley, the straight-laced, befuddled man of science who is drawn into improbable situations by Susan. Katherine Hepburn is sensational as Susan, the airhead heiress whose hair-brained ideas just lead to trouble. Of course, Susan falls for David, and the games begin. In addition to Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn, the film has notable performances by Charles Ruggles, as big game hunter Major Applegate, Barry Fitzgerald as the hapless hired hand, Mr. Gogarty, and Walter Catlett, as Slocum, the criminally stupid town constable.
It is with good reason that this film made the Entertainment Weekly list of the 100 best comedies ever made. It is an assessment with which I heartily concur. This is a superlative, vintage film that is well worth having in one's personal collection. Bravo!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I'm a big Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn fan so I'm liable to be bias. But what can I say? This film NEVER fails to make me laugh, no matter how many times I see it! This is comedy in it's truest form. The jokes are reeled off at an intense speed and you have to learn to go with the style of speech and comedy quickly or else you miss an equally funny joke whilst you're pondering over the previous one!! According to on-line sources, Katherine Hepburn had never filmed a comedy like this before and had to have tution in comic timing and such. You wouldn't guess it was the first film of such kind that she'd made for the humour and timing is perfect and she plays funny little Susan with an amazing ability. Cary Grant is highly amusing as the object of her affections. I cannot recommend this film highly enough!! 11/10!!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Bringing up baby is as described frantic, fast and noisy. You do not have time to get your breath. All the actors are at their best. There is a story line and a consistency that keeps this movie from being a bunch of one liners.
David Huxley (Cary Grant) is a paleontologist who has an important find. He crosses paths with Susan Vance (Katherine Hepburn) who is not all there but very witty. Susan has a secret "Baby", her pet leopard.
One of the themes is mistaking Baby for another more dangerous leopard that escaped from captivity. Many movies did this with black bags. However bags don't bite. And again every time Carry Grant gets mixed up with Katharine something inevitably goes wrong and this snowballs as the movie progresses. The movie moves fast enough that you may want to watch it again.
David Huxley (Cary Grant) is a paleontologist who has an important find. He crosses paths with Susan Vance (Katherine Hepburn) who is not all there but very witty. Susan has a secret "Baby", her pet leopard.
One of the themes is mistaking Baby for another more dangerous leopard that escaped from captivity. Many movies did this with black bags. However bags don't bite. And again every time Carry Grant gets mixed up with Katharine something inevitably goes wrong and this snowballs as the movie progresses. The movie moves fast enough that you may want to watch it again.
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Totally delightful - every comedy fan should see this at some time
All the patter and cross-talk that you'd expect from a classic 'screwball' comedy, plus Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and a missing leopard -- what more could you want? Read more
Published 1 month ago by superted2uk
PATHETIC!!!! BORING!!!! WASTE OF TIME!!!!!
TRUE DISAPPOINTMENT.
I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND HOW GRANT COULD EVER AGREE TO PLAY THIS.
2 STARS- GRANT, HEPBURN- YOU CAN SEE THEM STRUGGLING THROUGH
THE WHOLE MOVIE. Read more
I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND HOW GRANT COULD EVER AGREE TO PLAY THIS.
2 STARS- GRANT, HEPBURN- YOU CAN SEE THEM STRUGGLING THROUGH
THE WHOLE MOVIE. Read more
Published 1 month ago by EDITA
Bringing up Baby
One of the funniest of Cary Grants films with superb interaction between him and his superb co-star Katherine Hepburn. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. T. HARWOOD
Superb film and a complete classic
The quickness of Cary Grant so very rarely beaten is matched step by step with Katherine Hepburn's lively and clever quips in this beau of a film. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Gary
Awful
Recommended by my brother we had great hopes for this film which he said was in his top 5 funniest films. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Lorna Meier
Brilliant!
Just watched this again - and enjoyed it just as much as ever. If I had to come up with a film to demonstrate Hollywood at its finest in the 1930's then "Bringing up Baby" would... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mr. Alastair Brown
Comic Genius
Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn are perfectly matched in this comic gem. He is a paleontologist and she is the scatty socialite who helps get hin into all sorts of trouble which... Read more
Published 18 months ago by A. Close
Bringing Up Baby
I want to say that i really enjoyed this dvd.
It was funny, it had comedy in it and it was romantic aswell. Read more
It was funny, it had comedy in it and it was romantic aswell. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Melissa Ball
I'll be with you in a minute Mr Peabody
This could teach a few things to modern day comedy writers and actors, and is possibly the finest romantic screwball comedy ever made. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Michael
Since you bring this up, it's great!
This is quite simply a very funny film. I don't know if it's the funniest film ever, but if not it must be pretty close. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Allan Broadfield
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