It Happened One Night
Elie Andrews is a recklessly peddled heir to Queen Westley. This girl is a rich and well-educated girl who falls after the time in marriage to a young man named Frank Capra. The billionaire father tries to get Eli out of his life. But fate wants Eli to sit with the satirical reporter Peter Warren, who is trying to help her reunite with her new husband in return for an agreement. During that controversial journey between her and the reporter, things will change and the reporter finds himself falling in the face of that rich young girl.
19 March 1873, Georgetown, Colorado, USA
18 May 1897, Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy
29 July 1894, New York City, New York, USA
April 5, 1905 in Texas, USA
June 24, 1886 in Wauseon, Ohio, USA
18 July 1894, New York, USA
8 April 1887, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
October 2, 1898 in San Biagio, Italy
11 March 1871, Sacramento, California, USA
6 September 1893, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
24 March 1888, London, England, UK
November 7, 1883 in New York City, New York, USA
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
February 23, 2016
It's sweet, cheerful, funny, and very, very good.
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 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.
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.
