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It Happened One Night (1934)
Director: Frank Capra
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From Time Out Film Guide
The film which lifted Columbia Studios into the big league by winning five Academy Awards and putting Capra's future output among the biggest box-office successes of the '30s. Gable plays a ruthless reporter who adopts a fugitive heiress making her way across America by bus. She (Colbert) is spoiled and snobbish, he is poor but honest, and his attempts to convert her to homespun pleasures hit the right emotional chord in Depression-weary audiences. Opinions divide about whether the film's comedy and sententious notions about the miserable rich and happy poor have dated, but some of the set pieces definitely haven't aged. Capra's sense of humour is a little like that of Preston Sturges, though less caustic; and the film shows its stars at their best, Colbert as one of Hollywood's fresher comediennes, Gable as dumb-but-loveable hunk.Author: RM
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- Vampenguin said...
- Posted on Jun 28 2007 22:12 Did you guys even watch the movie? Gable's character was smart as a whip, where do you get "dumb-but-lovable" ?
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Cast & crew
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas, Alan Hale, Arthur Hoyt, Ward Bond full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 105 mins
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