“A timeless classic!” Ellen Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is a rich, young woman who escapes from her father to be with her husband in New York. On the train on her way, she meets a charming newspaper reporter, Peter Warne (Clark Gable). They don’t get along at first, but they quickly become friends. When he finds out that Ellie is running away from her father, Peter decides to help her and also to make his journey with her into a news article. Soon, they find themselves falling in love with each other.
A hilarious and romantic movie, It Happened One Night is one of the best classics ever. The writing, the acting — everything about it is excellent. You know a movie is something special when nearly seventy years since it’s release, it is still as cherished as ever!
Product Description A lovely screwball comedy about an heiress who runs away after a tiff with daddy & the reporter who tracks her down. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/28/1999 Starring: Clark Gable Roscoe Karns Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Frank Capra Director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) took home every Oscar in the book (well, okay, all the major ones) for this seminal 1934 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten reporter who stays close to a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) rather than lose a good story. Funny and sexy, the film is full of memorable scenes often referred to in other films, such as the “walls of Jericho” (a mere bedcover hung on a line down the middle of a room so opposite-sex roommates can get undressed), and Colbert’s famous flash of thigh to stop a speeding car in its tracks. Capra’s brisk, urbane brand of wit was a perfect complement to his populist faith in the common man (in this case, Gable’s character), and that inspired combination makes this film both a spirited entertainment and an uplifting experience. –Tom Keogh |
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Love this movie  I’ll add my review to this movie,as I just purchased it recently. It’s a very good movie,the kind that is no longer made. Classically funny,witty,and charming. It’s amazing to think that the movie is over 70 years old and is still just as fresh and enjoyable…. “The Limb Is Mightier Than The Thumb” ~ Lessons In Love On The Road To Romance When you talk about the “Golden Age” of cinema one of the first films that have to come to mind is the ‘33 classic ‘It Happened One Night’ directed by Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. The chemistry between these two Hollywood legends is magical, the script enchanting and the supporting cast superb. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry. Simply one of the greatest comedy romances of all-time! One of the Essentials for anyones DVD library. … “Capra-Corn” at Its Best A rebellious rich girl, Ellie Andrews (Colbert), runs away from her rich father because of his opposition to her marriage to King Westley, not a monarch but an upper class snob that her father loathes. Who should she run into on a bus while fleeing than none other than a brash just-fired reporter named Peter Warne, played by Gable. Let the war games begin as Colbert and Gable engage in the sophisticated and very funny running banter that makes the movie so appealing. Her flight via the bus, and other forms of travel, is the vehicle for moving the couple and the plot along as their relationship develops. He is using her for a story, ostensibly. She is using him as her protector, ostensibly. What follows are a number of classic comic scenes which, of course, ineluctably lead to true love. Colbert’s successful skirt-lifting hitchhike has become the stuff of Hollywood legend, shown repeatedly for every conceivable purpose. What is usually missing from that clip is the whole hilarious build up, brilliantly done by Gable as he demonstrates the tried and true ways of thumbing a ride. He does a wonderful job of setting his large male thumb, and ego, up for the big take-down that Colbert’s lovely leg produces. The blanket scenes in various cabins as they make their way across country together were considered extremely risqu¨¦ in their day. The request for the toy horn is a fittingly excellent double entendre for the d¨¦nouement. After all adversities that King Westley and her father pose are overcome by true love the newly-eloped Warnes fittingly turn off the lights in their honeymoon cabin, blow their “Jericho” toy horn, and let the blanket, and the curtain, fall. This is a Frank Capra movie so you can expect the assumptions of privileged wealth (Colbert) to be challenged and scorned by a defender of the little guy like reporter Gable. He refers to Colbert as “brat” in both angry and affectionate ways depending upon the situation. Capra was nothing if not a true-believer in the American ideal that riches didn’t make you better than the less-fortunate person seated next to you, in life or on a bus. The movie contains scenes of harmony in the shared hard times of the Great Depression, like everyone singing together on the bus, Gable’s aid to a poor boy, and his “you’re as good as me” wave to hobos riding on a train. They are the predictable types of scenes which a viewer can find in every Capra movie; corny but no less heartwarming. This is the stuff of good film-making. Throughout his career Capra truly evinced an idealism in his movies that is hard to picture in our time. It is amazing that he was able to preserve that idealism right through to his last movie in 1961, fittingly titled “A Pocketful of Miracles.” “It’s a Wonderful Film” There are also some interesting tidbits in the commentary by Capra’s kid, who said that Colbert thought it was the worst movie she ever made (until the Academy Awards started rolling in). Capra, Gable, and Colbert at the top of their form…. |
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