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Article: Bringing Up Baby.(Video Recording Review)
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- June 22, 2005
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Directed by Howard Hawks; written by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde; starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. DVD, two discs, B&W, 102 mins. A Warner Home Video release.
Although the tendency may be to place Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby at the head of the screwball comedy class with such other examples as It Happened One Night, My Man Godfrey, and The Awful Truth, the reality is that the film stands apart. This story of a paleontologist, an heiress, a leopard, a dog, and a dinosaur bone reaches such a zenith of lunacy that Peter Bogdanovich, who provides commentary on Warner Home Video's new DVD version, recalls that on initial exposure it struck him as "the ...