It Happened One Night (1934) [B&W] NTSC DVD-R

A Frank Capra seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, stars Clark Gable as a newspaper reporter and Claudette Colbert who plays a spoiled heiress, Ellie, who has married fortune-hunting aviator.To keep Ellie from marrying King Westley, her father has been holding her prisoner aboard his yacht. But Ellie bolts from the yacht, swims ashore in her clothes, and eventually slips onto a Greyhound bus bound for New York where she runs into newspaper reporter Peter Warne (Clark Gable), who has recently been fired for drinking on the job. Peter eventually reveals that he knows her identity. She makes a deal with him: if he helps her get to New York, he can write a scoop about her for his paper. This movie set the pace for the "screwball" comedy, the witty and romantic clash of temperaments between a man and a woman mismatched in both personality and social position, a type of movie often associated with Katherine Hepburn in such classics as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), and Adam's Rib (1949)





#3 ON AFI'S TOP ROMANTIC COMEDIES



BLACK & WHITE

THEATRICAL RELEASE: APRIL 9TH, 1934

DVD RELEASE: DECEMBER 9TH, 2008

SOURCE: NTSC DVD9

ASPECT RATIO: 1.33:1

RUNTIME: 105 MIN

LINK: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025316/
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GENRE: ROMANTIC COMEDY/SCREWBALL COMEDY

SPOKEN LANGUAGES: ENGLISH

SUBTITLES: ENGLISH, SPANISH

EXTRAS: STRIPPED