Comedy

Romance

It Happened One Night

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

English

Clark Gable

Claudette Colbert

Walter Connolly

Roscoe Karns

Jameson Thomas

Alan Hale

Arthur Hoyt

Blanche Friderici

Charles C. Wilson

Ernie Adams

Jessie Arnold

Irving Bacon

William Bailey

William Begg

William A. Boardway

Ward Bond

Harry C. Bradley

George P. Breakston

Charles A. Browne

James Burke

Edmund Burns

Frank Capra

Ken Carson

Eddy Chandler

Wallis Clark

Ray Cooke

Joseph Crehan

Oliver Cross

Jack Curtis

Mickey Daniels

Eva Dennison

Neal Dodd

Oliver Eckhardt

Billy Engle

Jack Evans

Bess Flowers

Allen Fox

Dolores Fuller

Joaquin Garay

Dick Gordon

Carlton Griffin

Kit Guard

Sherry Hall

A.R. Haysel

Frank Holliday

Harry Holman

Harry Hume

William Irving

Milton Kibbee

Carl M. Leviness

Marvin Loback

King Lockwood

Rose May

William McCall

Claire McDowell

Kate Morgan

Gayle Morris

Patsy O'Byrne

Earl Pingree

June Preston

Hal Price

Margaret Reid

Ky Robinson

Blanche Rose

Rita Ross

Matty Roubert

Marvin Schecter

Harry Schultz

Bert Scott

Scott Seaton

Harry Semels

S.S. Simon

Linda Lee Solomon

Bert Starkey

Ethel Sykes

Jane Talent

Emma Tansey

Harry Todd

Maidel Turner

William Wagner

John Wallace

Fred Walton

Dave Wengren

Billy West

Buck Woods

Frank Yaconelli

Robert Riskin

Harry Cohn

Joseph Walker

Gene Havlick

Stephen Goosson

Sydney Moore

Robert Kalloch

Charles C. Coleman

Edward Bernds

Mary Wiggins

Cliff Shirpser

Howard Jackson

Louis Silvers

Samuel Hopkins Adams

Andres Gomez

A classical comedy which would be setting some standards with great performance from Clark Gable.

Made nearly 90 years ago and still fun to watch. Sarcastic, witty, and entertaining. "Mind if I tried? ... You? Don't make me laugh."

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Claudette Colbert is great as the independently-minded heiress "Ellie" who jumps from her father's yacht and finds herself, nigh-on penniless, on a bus to New York. Also angling for that last seat on the bus is the roguish "Warne" (Clark Gable) - a journalist with a nose for a good story. Determined to track her down, her father uses his media empire and soon her photo is all over the press. This doesn't go unnoticed by the shrewd "Warne", who soon reckons her story is worth a load of cash to his editor. What neither reckon on though, is that their initial hostility/indifference to each other gradually morphs into something - well, yes, you can guess that bit. Indeed, the story itself has a degree of predictability to it - but that doesn't matter here. This is a quickly paced, well written comedy drama that utilises the intimacy of the bus (or the motels) to provide an excellent vehicle for two actors who just exude a joyous chemistry - never a romantic, or sentimental one - as they try to stay one step ahead of the blokes sent by her father to return her to safety and to her affianced "King Wesley" (Jameson Thomas) who is the latest cause of the familial discord (her father loathes this opportunist fellow). Tables are turned and turned again as each try to outmanoeuvre the other - with Walter Connolly turning in quite an engaging performance as the dad who also knows there is more than one way to skin a cat. This might be my favourite Gable outing - he had a lovely smile and glint in his eye for comedy parts when he was enjoying himself and Colbert is also at the top of her game for a thoroughly enjoyable and spirited look at human nature and bloody-mindedness.

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