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Watch It Happened One Night Online.
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More than six decades after its unusual release, “It Happened One Night” mild sparkles like a newly minted coin. It’s romantic, witty, sophisticated … and positive key scenes (especially Clark Gable’s gangster impression and Claudette Colbert’s hitch-hiking lesson) remain laugh-out-loud droll. A approach perfect blend of script, direction, and performance, it deservedly swept the top five 1934 Academy Awards. One statue that it wasn’t even nominated for, and should have won, was for Joseph Walker’s Cinematography; his masterful camerawork makes this movie glisten and shine.
The DVD transfer is amazingly resplendent. There are a few shots that appear to be slightly grainy and one or two jumps in the soundtrack, but those are minor quibbles. I’ve watched this film several times over the past twenty years — in a revival theatre, on satellite, and on VHS — and it’s never looked as safe as it does here. The DVD extras are icing on the cake: trailers for this film and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”; the teaser for “Lost Horizon”; a filmed commentary by Frank Capra, Jr.; and the 1939 Lux Theatre radio broadcast of the epic. I especially enjoyed the advertising archive portion, which included color reproductions of the new one-sheet posters and lobby cards. Overall, this disc is a enormous example of the DVD format at its finest, and a most well-behaved presentation of a advantageous Hollywood classic.
In 1934, an underbudgeted, little-heralded film by the young director Frank Capra swept the Oscars, winning for best characterize, director, actor, actress, and screenplay. Seventy years later, it’s powerful how original and droll “It Happened One Night” seems.
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Neither Claudette Colbert nor Clark Gable wanted to do this film, but despite or perhaps because of this, their performances are spontaneous and endearing. They have accurate chemistry, and the scenes of them flirting and bickering have been much-imitated but never equalled. Besides the celebrated “Walls of Jericho” scene when Peter undresses, I also savor it when Peter teaches Ellie how to dunk a donut.
The record is simple: Ellie Andrews, a faulty heiress, runs away to marry her fiance. On the bus to NYC she meets Peter Warne (Gable), a reporter who’s impartial been fired from his newspaper. Both are brash and defective. Of course this queer couple descend in like.
It Happened One Night of course was filmed during the height of the Substantial Depression, and unlike many Hollywood films of that era did not report a world of impossible luxury. Peter and Ellie expend a night in a cheap autocamp, their bus breaks down and a passenger faints from hunger, and Capra has numerous scenes of characters enjoying simple things, like eating a carrot or hitchhiking or stealing a jalopy. As is typical with his movies there are a lot of eccentric characters, like a singing driver and an deplorable bus passenger who says “Shapely’s the name and that’s the arrangement I like ‘em.” I also care for the depiction of Ellie Andrews — this was an era when women onscreen were strong and resourceful. Although the film does play up the “contemptible heiress” stereotype Ellie never becomes an unsuitable type character. It’s toothsome that in this movie, Ellie “wears the pants” in the relationship and is the mover and shaker. The bickering-but-respectful relationship between Peter and Ellie is an consuming disagreement to a film made 20 years later, Roman Holiday. Roman Holiday is a film with a similar storyline, but the gender politics have changed. Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) has none of the eccentricity of Peter Warne (who’s shown chewing a carrot), but is the romantic knight in radiant armor. Audrey Hepburn’s Princess is charming and doe-eyed, not brash and cheeky like Ellie.
It Happened One Night is not a big-budget film. Over the years, Hollywood has near out with many romantic comedies, some valid. But It Happened One Night is serene the gold standard. For once a classic film’s reputation is richly deserved.
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