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- It Happened One Night
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- (February 26, 1934)
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- It Happened One Night contains the material of many a recent
- picture: the brash, whiskey-drinking newshawk (Clark Gable); the
- girl (Claudette Colbert) whose father thinks she has been
- kidnapped; the Florida-New York bus on which they are riding
- North together -- the girl to join to her recently acquired
- socialite husband of whom her father disapproves, the reporter
- to get the story of her escapade.
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- Instead of attempting a journalistic study of bus-travel,
- regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and
- Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adam's story, fused the
- two. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One
- Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the
- groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away.
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