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It Happened One Night
A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story.
21 January 1878, Brooklyn, New York, USA
May 5, 1894 in Hals, Denmark
April 5, 1905 in Texas, USA
18 June 1885, San Francisco, California, USA
6 July 1885, New York City, New York, USA
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
24 March 1888, London, England, UK
June 24, 1886 in Wauseon, Ohio, USA
October 2, 1898 in San Biagio, Italy
18 July 1894, New York, USA
September 26, 1886 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA
12 March 1894, Wilton Junction [now Wilton], Iowa, USA
November 7, 1883 in New York City, New York, USA
August 8, 1892 in Eureka, California, USA
March 15, 1872 in Conway, Missouri, USA
May 12, 1888 in Sherman, Texas, USA
December 29, 1928 in Glendale, California, USA
24 August 1869, Spennymoore, England UK
19 March 1873, Georgetown, Colorado, USA
6 September 1893, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
18 May 1897, Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy
February 23, 2016
It's sweet, cheerful, funny, and very, very good.
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.
December 12, 2006
This is Capra at his best, very funny and very light, with a minimum of populist posturing.
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.
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.
December 10, 2014
Perhaps not the greatest of the screwball comedies, but Frank Capra's It Happened One Night is one of the racier.
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.
November 30, 2015
One of the best comedies of its era, with a rich inventiveness of character and situation.
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 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.
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.