It Happened One Night (1934)

Directed by

Frank Capra

Genre

romantic comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 1,421 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pampered heiress runs away from her father and meets a charming reporter on a bus. They bicker constantly but slowly fall for each other on a cross-country journey.

whimsicalromanticfast-pacedcharmingscrewballplayfulwittylighthearted

What happens

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American screwball comedy film produced and directed by Frank Capra. Claudette Colbert stars as a pampered socialite who tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter, played by Clark Gable. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. It is considered a "pre-Code" production, as it was released just four months before the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America began rigidly enforcing the Hays Code. It is seen as one of the greatest films ever made and was the first of only three films to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1993, it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2013, the film underwent an extensive restoration by Sony Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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