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It Happened One Night

1934 · Film · 105 min

  • Comedy
  • Romance

Plot

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

About It Happened One Night

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 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.

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Cast

  • Clark GablePeter Warne
  • Claudette ColbertEllie Andrews
  • Walter ConnollyAlexander Andrews
  • Roscoe KarnsOscar Shapeley
  • Jameson ThomasKing Westley
  • Alan HaleDanker
  • Arthur HoytZeke
  • Blanche FridericiZeke's Wife
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