#46 It Happened One Night

Title: It Happened One Night

A.F.I. Ranking: 46

Director: Frank Capra

Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert

Release Year: 1934

Brief Synopsis: Ellie Andrews jumps off her father’s ship and swims to shore when her rich, banker father threatens to have her recent marriage annulled. When Ellie gets to land, she hops on a train to New York to escape her father. While on the train she meets Peter Warne, a journalist who just got fired. Peter recognizes Ellie from the newspaper and agrees to keep her identity under wraps until she gets to New York if she agrees to give him exclusive access to her story in an effort to try to get his job back. Oh the craziness that ensues.

My Thoughts: This is a sweet, funny, romantic movie. Gable is charming and funny in his role. I read that nobody wanted to do this movie, but then Louis B. Mayer who had Gable under contract at MGM loaned Gable to Columbia Pictures because the two were feuding and Mayer thought Gable needed to spend some time doing a movie where he would be stuck on a bus for weeks, but Gable got the last laugh when he won an Academy Award for his performance.

“Don't fall out of any windows!”

Rating: List Worthy!