It Happened One Night
by Frank Capra
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Actor: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Jameson Thomas, Roscoe Karns, Walter ConnollyDirector: Frank Capra
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
Producer: Frank Capra
Editor: Gene Havlick
Producer: Harry Cohn
Writer: Robert Riskin
Writer: Samuel Hopkins Adams
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-12-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of It Happened One Night
DVD Review: Fantastic Night
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie, good comedy. Clark Gable is excellent, and also Claudette Colbert. It is one of the best films of the thirtie's. Bravo Frank Capra. I would recommend this film to film lovers who are into comedy.DVD Review: Outstanding Movie, Poor Picture
Summary: 5 Stars
My five stars are for IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, not for this DVD. If I were rating the DVD quality alone without regard to the movie, I'd give it one star or maybe half a star. I separate the two concepts because I'm buying more than the intellectual property (i.e., "the movie") when I buy a DVD. I'd seen IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT on TV a dozen times before I saw the DVD for sale. It's why I wanted the DVD as soon as I saw it. But I like to know what kind of value I'm getting for my money. I presume you do too.
Forewarned is forearmed: When you pop this DVD into your player, you'll see that the picture quality is poor. It will be as bad as any DVD you have in your collection and probably worse. I'm telling you this so you won't be surprised or disappointed.
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is one of the greatest movies ever made; and yet the picture quality on this DVD is no better than what you might have seen on broadcast TV twenty years ago--no better than if you'd bought it from a bootlegger at a swap-meet. It deserves better treatment, and will no doubt get it eventually. Having said this, I recommend buying this DVD anyway and here's why. The current copyright date on the package is 2008, which means we shouldn't expect the one we really want, with the "all-new digitally remastered picture" and "all-new digital transfer," to be available anytime soon. Sometimes it's better to hold out and wait for the new-and-improved version. For IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, don't wait. Buy this one now, and buy the new-and-improved version when it becomes available.
DVD Review: Could Have Been Super With Different Ending; Still A Top 'Classic'
Summary: 4 Stars
The first movie to sweep all the major Academy Awards, this film is still popular today. That's probably so because the dialog between the two stars of the picture - Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert - is just great.
Those two make this fun to watch. I enjoyed it, however, much more on the first viewing than subsequent ones. It lost some of its zip after I knew what to expect. The ending, too, was very weak. Over the last 20 minutes, the story gets very stupid.
Here is yet another trivialization of marriage, another common theme during the classic era. Colbert says it herself in one line, mentioning she doesn't care for this other guy, but what the heck, might as well get married, what's the difference?
Huh?
If the scriptwriters here would have just kept the "road" part of this film going longer - with Gable and Colbert trading barbs - it would have been super. Gable has the best lines an is the most fun to watch but Colbert can hold her own. She looks really pixie-ish and cute, although most of her closeups are done with a fuzzy lens, another habit of filmmakers of that era had with female stars.
One of the film world's most famous scenes is in this movie: the hitch-hiking scene in which the cocky Cable explains the different ways of successful thumbing in order to get a ride....and gets nowhere while Colbert, on her first try, gets a car to stop immediately after she lifts up her skirt! That is still one of the great comedic scenes in movie history.
Overall, this is still one of the best comedies of "The Golden Age," even with its faults.
DVD Review: Review
Summary: 5 Stars
Since my husband and I are late seventies, we enjoy the slower pace of comedy in the older movies. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT I thought was excellant. The story was good, not draggy. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert were at there best,I thought, in this comedy.
The pacing of incidents seems to be the right timing for us.
Thelma Ellerman
DVD Review: It Happened One Night
Summary: 5 Stars
My favorite from the great director, Frank Capra, a fast moving, witty
and well written example of the best from Hollywood's Golden Age. The sheer display of high end craft of movie making is exhilarating to watch.
AT the 1935 Academy Awards it swept for five Oscars for its two stars,
best picture of 1934, best director and screenwriter. Despite its age
it holds up very well, a terrific study in character, dialogue, good story telling and spot-on film craft.
Description of It Happened One Night
A lovely screwball comedy about an heiress who runs away after a tiff with daddy & the reporter who tracks her down. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/28/1999 Starring: Clark Gable Roscoe Karns Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Frank CapraDirector Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) took home every Oscar in the book (well, okay, all the major ones) for this seminal 1934 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten reporter who stays close to a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) rather than lose a good story. Funny and sexy, the film is full of memorable scenes often referred to in other films, such as the "walls of Jericho" (a mere bedcover hung on a line down the middle of a room so opposite-sex roommates can get undressed), and Colbert's famous flash of thigh to stop a speeding car in its tracks. Capra's brisk, urbane brand of wit was a perfect complement to his populist faith in the common man (in this case, Gable's character), and that inspired combination makes this film both a spirited entertainment and an uplifting experience. --Tom Keogh
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