It Happened One Night

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© A.J. Malouin 2008

(Rating: 2 by The Film Snob.)

(1934/USA. Directed by Frank Capra.)
It’s a credit to the Wonderful Life of this film that it is *still* Highly Entertaining 75 years after its original release. Winner of five 1934 Academy Awards for Best Actor, Actress, Director, Movie, and Adapted Screenplay, “It Happened One Night” has none of the over-wrought issues and messages that Director Frank Capra brought into many of his other films. This is a simple love story, IF you can call a love story between Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable “simple.” Robert Riskin’s screenplay packs this romantic screwball comedy with peppery dialogue. In addition? This movie contains several of the most famous set pieces in the history of the movies.

Our story? Ellie Andrews (Colbert) is the daughter of a very rich man who is ruled over by him with an iron fist. Spoiled, bratty, and guarded day-and-night by her father’s “henchmen,” Ellie momentarily escapes…and marries the first man she bumps into.

Her father has the marriage annulled [as he can, this being “The Movies”] and takes Ellie aboard his Florida yacht. She jumps overboard, swims to the nearest bus, and starts making her way back to NYC, where her husband is/was.

Ellie, however, is clueless as to how operate in The Real World. Unfortunately for everyone, she bumps into Peter Warne, a hard-drinking, fast-living newspaper man who knows a great story when it falls asleep on his shoulder on a bus ride.

He promises to get the penniless, suitcase-less Ellie back to her former husband…in exchange for an exclusive on her story.

Thus begins a lovely romping road trip. The set piece in which Gable tries to show Colbert the various modes of The Hitchhiker’s Art is one of the classics of moviedom. Likewise, the “Walls of Jericho” set piece, wherein gable erects a blanket as a privacy screen between their two beds in a roadside cabin is truly wonderful.

Warne is full of one-liners, and Ellie is just about just as clever in *her* dialogue.

The set piece in which the entire bus joins in the singing of “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” is also, alone, worth the price of rental, and has made that song well-known across the world.

“It Happened One Night” has no deep lessons nor dark secrets to reveal, but as a piece of pure entertainment, it hard to top 75 years after its release.

(1 hr 45. Not rated in the USA. In very-witty English. With 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, Arthur Hoyt as Zeke, Blanche Friderici as Zeke’s wife, Charles C. Wilson as Joe Gordon, and many other great supporting roles..)