It Happened One Night1934
It Happened One Night (1934)
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Critic Consensus: Capturing its stars and director at their finest, It Happened One Night remains unsurpassed by the countless romantic comedies it has inspired.
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Cast
as Ellie Andrews
as Pete Warne
as Alexander Andrews
as King Westley
as Shapeley
as King Westley
as Bus Driver
as Drunk Boy
as Danker
as Mother
as Zeke
as Zeke's Wife
as Lovington
as Reporter
as Reporter
as Bus Driver
as Detective
as Detective
as Detective
as Detective
as Newsboy
as Reporter
as Vender
as Joe Gordon
as Boy
as Policeman
as Policeman
as Dykes
as Secretary
as Butler
as Maid of Honor
as Best Man
as Minister
as Reporter
as Society Woman
as Radio Announcer
as Manager Auto Camp
as Prissy Old Man
as Manager's Wife
as Station Attendant
as Tony
as Henderson
as Flag Man
as Bus Passenger
as Bus Passenger
as Bus Passenger
as Bus Passenger
as Bus Passenger
as Bus Passenger
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Critic Reviews for It Happened One Night
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The surprise in this film is the discovery of Clark Gable as a comedian of considerable charm and ability.
The co-stars are a refreshing team with their good looks, bonhomie, and talent.
Gable plays the determined and resourceful newshound in his accustomed forthright manner, with a restraint that helps to make the story believable.
It is the kind of light entertainment that audiences always like very much.
Claudette Colbert is a particularly happy foil for Gable. They ought to be teamed up again.
This picture has the pulse. With Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert ideally cast, and... Walter Connolly and Roscoe Karns helping things along, it is just about guaranteed to cure any fit of the blues, and maybe even a headache.
Audience Reviews for It Happened One Night
This charming classic may be the very first screwball comedy of Cinema, a funny, amusing and optimistic movie with a deliciously sharp dialogue and wonderful performances from Gable and Colbert, who have a great onscreen chemistry together.
Super Reviewer
Frank Capra's road trip from Miami to New York is actually a poem to everyday America and Americans (your unwashed masses) and laced throughout with vignettes of common people simply enjoying life ... practically the blueprint for Hollywood gold. Remember James Cameron's Titanic? Well, here is where he stole the central theme. Gable and Colbert are great as the surrogates for us in this tale, he as the jack-of-all-trades everyman, and she as the princess who finds her Prince Charming is closer than she thinks. It never gets old, the scene in the bedroom still laced with agonizingly palpable tension, even after all these years.
Super Reviewer
Colbert and Gable hated making it and it ended up being one of Hitler's favorite films, but Capra's perfectly scripted romantic comedy has a stamp of glorious old-Hollywood quality.
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It Happened One Night Quotes
| Alexander Andrews: | I asked you a simple question! Do you love her? |
| Peter Warne: | Oh, he flies through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on the flying trapeze... |
| Ellie Andrews: | We'll get on a merry-go-round and never get off. Promise me we'll never get off. |
| Peter Warne: | I want to see what love looks like when it's triumphant. I haven't had a good laugh in a week. |