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It Happened One Night
In a romantic comedy of a different kind that revolves around a girl named Elie Andrews, a reckless heiress from Queen Westley. Elly marries a young man named Frank Kapra, prompting the billionaire father to keep her away. After a while, Eli is with the cynical reporter Peter Warren who is helping to reunite with her new husband for a story that looks very exciting. But during their travels, the reporter finds himself falling in the face of that young girl.
29 July 1894, New York City, New York, USA
19 March 1873, Georgetown, Colorado, USA
7 September 1891, San Bernardino, California, USA
21 January 1878, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1 February 1901, Cadiz, Ohio, USA
24 March 1888, London, England, UK
10 February 1892, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
8 April 1887, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
13 September 1903, Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
November 30, 2015
One of the best comedies of its era, with a rich inventiveness of character and situation.
December 09, 2014
Viewed even today with all of its plot elements recycled ad nauseam by Hollywood (for rom-coms, road trip comedies, odd couple/buddy films, etc.), the film still holds up because we believe Gable and Colbert and can identify with them both right away.
December 10, 2014
Perhaps not the greatest of the screwball comedies, but Frank Capra's It Happened One Night is one of the racier.
April 18, 2016
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.
April 16, 2015
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.
February 19, 2008
One of those stories that without a particularly strong plot manages to come through in a big way, due to the acting, dialog, situations and direction.
February 23, 2016
It's sweet, cheerful, funny, and very, very good.
February 22, 2015
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.
December 12, 2006
This is Capra at his best, very funny and very light, with a minimum of populist posturing.
February 09, 2006
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.
February 04, 2009
Instead of attempting a journalistic study of bus-travel, regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adams' story, fused the two.
February 17, 2015
The direction is excellent. Frank Capra never lets his picture lag for a moment. It is never very exciting, but it moves along snappily and it is full of amusing situations.
