It Happened One Night 1934

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 105 min

genre: comedy

theme: romantic comedy

director: Frank Capra

Score: 8 / 10

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).

Plot

Wall Street heiress Ellie Andrews has eloped with glamorous pilot King Westley. Her father Alexander senses that Westley married Ellie for her money. Mr. Andrews sequesters Ellie on his Florida yacht while his lawyers arrange an annulment. However, Ellie breaks out and swims to shore, where she boards a Greyhound bus bound for New York City to reunite with Westley. Mr. Andrews makes headlines by putting out a $10,000 reward for her safe return.

Awards

Cast

More details

author	Robert Riskin
award	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay National Board of Review Award for Best Film
contentLocation	New York City
director	Frank Capra
editor	Gene Havlick
genre	comedy romance social
keywords	annulment fall of jericho greyhound bus greyhound lines highwayman hitchhike joke married couple morning motel room new jersey newspaper reporter private detective room divider string unemployed wait walk wall street walls of jericho wed
musicBy	Howard Jackson
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Frank Capra Harry Cohn
publisher	Columbia Pictures
theme	comedy of remarriage road movie romantic comedy screwball comedy