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08/22/03
It Happened One Night (1934)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:30
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.7/10
Consensus: Capturing its stars and director at their finest, It Happened One Night remains unsurpassed by the countless romantic comedies it has inspired.
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Alan Hale
Director: Frank Capra
Reviews for It Happened One Night
...one of the smartest romantic comedies of the season. The Capra technique is evident in this story of a rich man's daughter who rebels at her father's objection to her marriage to an aviator.
06/05/02
With Gable and Colbert on top form this is a charming and memorable comedy.
02/19/08
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.
02/04/09
It happened one night in 1934, and it happens every time we watch this utterly beguiling film.
01/01/00
Who can resist a movie where the girl's father provides his daughter with a getaway car from her own wedding?
12/06/05
This is Capra at his best, very funny and very light, with a minimum of populist posturing.
12/12/06
An old school classic.
02/20/08
Top CriticA very funny and breezy comedy.
03/16/04
This charming romantic comedy, while grounded in the context of the Depression, offered light fare that's uncharacteristic of Capra. It might have been the first true sleeper since no one involved anticipated such critical and commercial success.
12/25/06
No review available.
12/23/03
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.
02/09/06
The story of a runaway heiress falling in with a devilish, wise-cracking reporter on a cross-country roadtrip now seems like a cliché only because so many other films have copied its structure.
12/30/06
Still as good as everyone says it is.
01/17/03
... stands as a significant landmark in cinema history, giving birth for more romantic comedies to come
06/12/02
It dates badly, but there's enough here to make it worthwhile
10/02/02
This classic comedy is the first movie ever to sweep the five major Oscar categories.
03/10/03
The ultimate dizzy, romantic, screwball comedy.
01/01/00
Not only will the Walls of Jericho fall, but so will the walls of your heart.
07/24/03
It Happened One Night is a good piece of fiction, which, with all its feverish stunts, is blessed with bright dialogue and a good quota of relatively restrained scenes.
05/20/03
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