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It Happened One Night
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DVD Details
- Audio Commentary by Frank Capra, Jr.
- Languages: English & Spanish
- Subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean & Thai
- Theatrical Trailers
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 28, 1999
- Originally Released: 1934
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Claudette Colbert & Clark Gable | |
Performer: | Walter Connolly, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, Ward Bond, Henry Wadsworth & Claire McDowell | |
Directed by | Frank Capra | |
Edited by | Gene Havlick | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Riskin | |
Composition by | Louis Silvers | |
Art Direction by | Stephen Goosson | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph Walker |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1934 -
Best Actor: Clark Gable
Academy Awards 1934 -
Best Actress: Claudette Colbert
Academy Awards 1934 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Robert Riskin
Academy Awards 1934 -
Best Director: Frank Capra
Academy Awards 1934 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
If only today’s versions of this perennial possessed a fraction of the original’s verve and charm... -- Grade: A
A.V. Club
I have seen Claudette Colbert better cast. She has too much character to suggest a helpless heiress who has never been allowed out alone before. However, most of the acting is excellent, and Frank Capra's direction is full of effective touches.
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The Spectator
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It's all about the snappy dialogue and simmering tension between these hugely charismatic stars.
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ChristyLemire.com
Rating: 5/5 --
It Happened One Night is as lively, witty and romantic as ever. Buoyed up by dual performances from two of the era's greats, Capra's film maintains its status as a classic.
CineVue
Frank Capra's It Happened One Night was a film that defied expectations to such an outrageous extent that the cinema has never fully recovered from its impact or influence.
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The Young Folks
...Early screwball....Won [Colbert] an Oscar. -- Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/5 --
It's probably more historically important than it is a masterpiece (the last 20 minutes take the missed conections and misunderstandings an inch too far), but it's still very easy to fall in love with.
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Time Out
Description by OLDIES.com:
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly), who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York, Ellie gets involved with an out-of-work newsman (Gable). When their bus breaks down, the bickering couple set off on a madcap hitchhiking expedition. Peter hopes to parlay the inside story of their misadventures into a job. But complications fly when the runaway heiress and brash reporter fall in love. Directed by Frank Capra, It Happened One Night was the first movie to be honored with all five major Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
Product Description:
Director Frank Capra and his two stars, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, stole hearts and a quintet of Oscars with this sparkling, legendary romantic comedy. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is based on the story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, and it follows a news reporter and a runaway heiress who fall in love while traveling cross country on a bus. But as with any classic, the film is more than the sum of its parts, and special attention should be paid to the fizzy chemistry between the two leads and the witty script from Robert Riskin. This screwball comedy was the first to take home all five major Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor--Clark Gable, Best Actress--Claudette Colbert, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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