Title: It Happened One Night
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert
Number on the AFI List: 46
Year: 1934
Believe it or not, there is a similarity between King Kong and It Happened One Night: both lifted their respective studios out of poverty! This movie is charming and endearing. It was surprising to me that neither Clark Gable nor Claudette Colbert were excited about doing this film; in fact, Colbert reportedly told a friend "it was the worst film I've ever made." However, the movie swept the Oscars in all major categories- Best Film, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay, so they must have done something right! And they did. The characters in this movie have great arcs from beginning to end; it was fun to watch how each character's pride slowly got chipped away until love and acceptance were found at the end, including the father's! I loved the allusion to the walls of Jericho representing the wall put up between Gable and Colbert, literally by a blanket in the middle of the room. This made for a wonderful payoff at the end with her drunk father declaring "let 'em topple!"
I do have to say, I don't QUITE get why this movie is titled "It Happened One Night." What is the IT? Which night was it? There were multiple nights in the movie. But that's neither here nor there.
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Will I watch it again: Oh, yeah!
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