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.
18 June 1885, San Francisco, California, USA
6 September 1893, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
11 March 1871, Sacramento, California, USA
12 March 1894, Wilton Junction [now Wilton], Iowa, USA
15 November 1911, El Mineral Del Oro, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
June 21, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
September 26, 1886 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA
21 January 1878, Brooklyn, New York, USA
March 15, 1872 in Conway, Missouri, USA
May 5, 1894 in Hals, Denmark
May 12, 1888 in Sherman, Texas, USA
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
December 29, 1928 in Glendale, California, USA
15 July 1883, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
April 5, 1905 in Texas, USA
7 September 1891, San Bernardino, California, USA
June 24, 1886 in Wauseon, Ohio, USA
19 March 1873, Georgetown, Colorado, USA
24 March 1888, London, England, UK
6 July 1885, New York City, New York, USA
March 2, 1882 in Essex, England, UK
13 September 1903, Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
January 27, 1896 in Roswell, New Mexico, USA
July 8, 1897 in Illinois, USA
18 May 1897, Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy
November 2, 1877 in New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1903, Benkelman, Nebraska, USA
29 July 1894, New York City, New York, USA
March 10, 1923 in South Bend, Indiana, USA
August 8, 1892 in Eureka, California, USA
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 10, 2014
Perhaps not the greatest of the screwball comedies, but Frank Capra's It Happened One Night is one of the racier.
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.
February 23, 2016
It's sweet, cheerful, funny, and very, very good.
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.
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 12, 2006
This is Capra at his best, very funny and very light, with a minimum of populist posturing.
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 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 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 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.
