It Happened One Night
IT
HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (U)
D: Frank Capra
Columbia (Frank Capra)
US 1934
105 mins
Comedy/Romance
W: Robert Riskin [based on the story "Night
Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams]
DP: Joseph Walker
Ed: Gene Havlick
Mus: Louis Silvers
Clark Gable (Peter Warne), Claudette
Colbert (Ellie Andrews), Walter Connelly (Alexander Andrews), Roscoe Carns (Oscar Shapeley), Alan Hale (Danker)
Times may have changed since 1934, but the influence of Frank
Capra's classic screwball comedy It Happened One Night is still prevalent, even in modern romantic comedies.
A
spoiled runaway heiress is followed across America by a charming reporter and though their journey brings much misadventure, the couple end up falling in love.
As well as Capra sprinkling his own touch of magic on the
film, the chemistry between the two leads makes it unmissable. This was the first film to win the "big 5" Oscars (Best Film, Actor, Actress, Director & Screenplay). Only two other films have
achieved the feat since.
8/10
