Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Rating: U
Length: 105 minutes
Country: USA

“Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies!”

Screwball cynicism is the order of the day in It Happened One Night, Capra's romantic comedy about a rascally reporter (Clark Gable) who falls in love with runaway heiress Claudette Colbert during an eventful bus trip. Like much in Capra's oeuvre, Night is about people who live their lives in screaming newspaper headlines, and it pops with speed and manic energy.

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"It Happened One Night still feels unbeatably fresh and shiveringly touching. It's partly in the way Gable, with his whip-smart devilishness, softens just enough to reach out to meet Colbert, saucily innocent yet nobody's fool, more than halfway. And Colbert, with her wisenheimer smirk and stylishly trim frame, represents cultured coolness that's as far as you can get from coldness: When she thinks Gable has turned against her, the soft tear that glimmers in her eye (without doing anything so gauche as actually rolling down her cheek) is like a miniature novel encompassing a world of restraint, longing and fear of loss." Stephanie Zacharek