It Happened One Night
It is a romantic of a different kind for a girl named Elie Andrews, a recklessly peddled heir to Queen Westley. After a while, Elly marries a young man named Frank Capra, prompting her billionaire father to get her out of his life. Coincidentally, Eli is with the cynical reporter Peter Warren, who is trying to help her reunite with her new husband in return for a controversial story for those around them. During that long journey, the reporter finds himself falling in the face of that young girl, where things change completely.
August 8, 1892 in Eureka, California, USA
29 July 1894, New York City, New York, USA
May 12, 1888 in Sherman, Texas, USA
July 8, 1897 in Illinois, USA
January 27, 1896 in Roswell, New Mexico, USA
13 September 1903, Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
March 10, 1923 in South Bend, Indiana, USA
10 February 1892, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
18 May 1897, Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy
18 June 1885, San Francisco, California, USA
December 29, 1928 in Glendale, California, USA
12 March 1894, Wilton Junction [now Wilton], Iowa, USA
15 July 1883, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
November 7, 1883 in New York City, New York, USA
19 March 1873, Georgetown, Colorado, USA
June 24, 1886 in Wauseon, Ohio, USA
May 5, 1894 in Hals, Denmark
November 2, 1877 in New York City, New York, USA
24 August 1869, Spennymoore, England UK
18 July 1894, New York, USA
October 2, 1898 in San Biagio, Italy
March 2, 1882 in Essex, England, UK
March 15, 1872 in Conway, Missouri, USA
April 5, 1905 in Texas, USA
1 February 1901, Cadiz, Ohio, USA
8 April 1887, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
21 January 1878, Brooklyn, New York, USA
11 March 1871, Sacramento, California, USA
6 July 1885, New York City, New York, USA
September 26, 1886 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA
November 30, 2015
One of the best comedies of its era, with a rich inventiveness of character and situation.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
December 12, 2006
This is Capra at his best, very funny and very light, with a minimum of populist posturing.
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 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.
