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It Happened One Night (1934)

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  • 1hr 45m
  • 87

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Frank Capra

Writer:

Robert Riskin, Samuel Hopkins Adams

Release Date:

Feb 23, 1934

Runtime:

1hr 45m

Synopsis

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

Cast

  • Clark Gable
  • Claudette Colbert
  • Walter Connolly
  • Roscoe Karns
  • Jameson Thomas
  • Alan Hale
  • Arthur Hoyt
  • Blanche Friderici
  • Charles C. Wilson
  • Ernie Adams

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Metacritic

87
metacritic
Based on 16 Critics
8.2

USER SCORE (57)

Universal acclaim based on 57 Reviews
100

The combination of Capra’s playful sensibility, inimitable 1930s line delivery, and a screwball wit really come together here to capture lightning in a bottle.

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Metacritic review by Christopher Machell
Christopher Machell
CineVue
80

No one has ever fully explained what gives this basically slight romantic comedy its particular - and enormous - charm.

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Pauline Kael
The New Yorker
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