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"It Happened One Night" is a 1934 comedy film directed by Frank Capra about a reporter and a runaway heiress who fall in love while traveling together. The film is considered a classic of American cinema and helped establish many conventions of the romantic comedy genre.
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7.8A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Cast
- Clark Gable as Peter Warne
- Claudette Colbert as Ellie Andrews
- Walter Connolly as Alexander Andrews
- Roscoe Karns as Oscar Shapeley
- Jameson Thomas as King Westley
- Alan Hale as Danker
Themes
- newspaper
- miami, florida
- marriage
- reporter
- black and white
- screwball comedy
- socialite
- pre-code
- based on short story
- screwball
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Movement
- Pre-Code Hollywood
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Screenwriter
- Robert Riskin
- Cast member
- Harry Todd
- Composer
- Howard Jackson
- Producer
- Harry Cohn
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Joseph Walker
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Duration
- 105
- FilmAffinity ID
- 118834
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night.jpg
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- Commons category
- It Happened One Night (film)
- publication date
- 1934-02-27
- film editor
- Gene Havlick
- title
- It Happened One Night
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- color
- black-and-white
- production designer
- Stephen Goosson
- distributed by
- Netflix
- film format
- 16 mm film
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 98%
- capital cost
- 325000
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- Academy ratio
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Encyclopedic overview
The film's trailer It Happened One Night is a 1934 American screwball comedy film produced and directed by Frank Capra. Claudette Colbert stars as a pampered socialite who tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter, played by Clark Gable.
The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. It is considered a "pre-Code" production, as it was released just four months before the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America began rigidly enforcing the Hays Code.
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