Not Rated| 1h 42min | Comedy | 18 February 1938 If I’d have known that the 1938 film “Bringing Up Baby” was a screwball comedy that moves along at a breakneck pace, I probably would have better prepared for it. But perhaps it’s a good thing that I didn’t, since the result of being taken along on this uproarious ride is akin to an unexpected roller-coaster ride of laughs rolling up and down one’s funny bone—each situation that its main characters find themselves in keeps amplifying to goofier and zanier heights. Therefore, everything begins on a relatively calm note. Doctor David Huxley (Cary Grant) is a nerdy and somewhat socially awkward paleontologist who has almost completed the construction of a humongous Brontosaurus skeleton within the Stuyvesant Museum of Natural History. The only thing he’s waiting on is one final dinosaur bone—the intercostal clavicle—and the exhibit will be complete. He’s engaged …
Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Bringing Up Baby’: Director Howard Hawks’s Timeless Screwball Comedy
January 21, 2022
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