Bringing Up Baby (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Screwball sparks fly between Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in this madcap comedy from Howard Hawks

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 Edition Features

New, restored 4K digital transfer

New video essay on actor Cary Grant

New interview about cinematographer Russell Metty

New interview on special-effects pioneer Linwood Dunn

And more