Showtimes for It Happened One Night
Part of: Heights Centennial
The first film to ever win the “Big Five” at the Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay), IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT took a risk, showed a little leg, and it paid off bigtime. Released in 1934, starring Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), It Happened One Night was a road movie and a romcom before we had defined genres like “road movie” or “romcom.” Filled with pre-Hayes Code snappy banter, and innuendo that might make your grandmother blush, this movie has inspired countless imitations in the nearly 100 years since its release, but nothing’s like the first time.
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Frank Capra
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
1934
105 min
Romance
