Stars: Cary Grant, Leslie Howard, Trevor Howard, Katharine Hepburn

Director: Howard Hawks

Summary: Features the Cary Grant films FATHER GOOSE and BRINGING UP BABY.

Features the Cary Grant films FATHER GOOSE and BRINGING UP BABY. In FATHER GOOSE, a beachcomber in the South Pacific is tricked into helping the Allies by reporting on enemy ships. His lonely existence is interrupted by a group of schoolgirls and their headmistress. In BRINGING UP BABY, a wacky young lady causes a zoology professor to lose a dinosaur bone and a pet leopard, all in the same evening.

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Father Goose

Cary Grant's penultimate feature before retirement was this cheerful 1964 effort to overturn his career-long image of urbane sophistication. As the unshaven, messy misanthrope Walter Eckland, a World War II-era beach bum who monitors Japanese air activity for the Australian navy in exchange for booze, Grant makes a convincingly hard-bitten, hard-drinking antihero. Until, that is, a pretty French schoolmistress (Leslie Caron) and her seven little charges (all girls) survive a nearby plane crash and invade Eckland's raunchy isolation. Directed by 1960s hit-maker Ralph Nelson (The Lilies of the Field, Charly), Father Goose is a glossy comedy that also does justice to its more suspenseful scenes (a deadly snakebite suffered by Caron's character is especially memorable) and leaves plenty of room for Grant to indulge in some entertaining if atypical screen behaviour. All in all, this is a minor treat in the actor's magnificent filmography. --Tom Keogh

Bringing Up Baby

"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

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive menu
Release Date:	January 29, 2007
Runtime:	218 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	8247547
Keywords:	Baby, Father, English, Comedy, Two, Bringing, Grant, Goose, Discs, Cary
Genre:	Comedy