Film critic Andrew Sarris once, now famously, described the screwball comedy as a "sex comedy without the sex." In the case of Bringing Up Baby, I say thank the gods for small favors. One can only imagine what sort of leathered and gagged S&M tableau poor David Huxley would have ended up in had the unpredictable and exuberant Susan Vance had full reign to indulge whatever peculiar peccadillo crossed her mind. I'm being literal for the purpose of being humorous, of course, but... the thought did cross my mind as I was watching Howard Hawks' 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby. Read More.
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