Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

merelyaninnuendo It Happened One NightThe conversations are practical and sensibly written and addition to that the hilarity that it ensues doesn't seem forcibly installed and makes it look like ridiculous but instead keeps it grounded; which audience resemble with, that is supported by the pragmatic characters and the world that they reside in. The writing is strong and witty especially which is clearly visible when it offers a similar gravitas to the supporting cast to factor in on drama and comedy too. It isn't shot nicely and the camera work could have been a lot better but it surely is edited perfectly. The execution by Frank Capra is apt for the script and bodes well with the tone throughout the course of it as he keeps it light and breezy. Clark Gable is as always convincing on his portrayal and so has been Claudette Colbert on her parallel role with him as a bratty celebrity. The only missing puzzle is the stakes that are projected in here are taken lightly by the characters and the makers which clearly isn't feasible at all. It Happened One Night is a soothing and independent night if not appropriately taken hold of.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "It Happened One Night" (1934)At the evening Acdemy-Award ceremony of Wednesday, February 27th 1937 at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California founded in 1923 comes along the first Hollywood motion picture able to prevail at today's standards in speed, screwball wits, action as comedic beats by the minute, which only flaw has become not being in splendid "technicolor" receptions; nevertheless to stay relevant to this day as one of U.S. American motion picture milestones, if not to say the "Best Picture" of decade 1930s in favor of world-war-traumatized generation, when Hollywood under the ingenius direction of Frank Capra (1897-1991), pulling all the strings with privately "high-rise" as Columbia Pictures exclusive-contracted actress Claudette Colbert (1903-1996) playing richman's daughter Ellie in utmost spoiled brat supremes, who becomes the infamous often copied hardly reached character of a runaway bride, when also Academy-Award-winning actor Clark Gable (1901-1960) as Peter, the hungry New York journalist out for another hit story is stealing this high-end Hollywood showcase running with a "Clean-Sweep" whole circle win concerning five Academy-Award nominations equaled by five Oscars trophies, including for both leading actors, director Frank Capra and the production fully ingnited by Hollywood major Columbia Pictures (founded in 1918); in occasion only matched two times after in "Oscar" history concerning the four major catogories by independently-produced "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" starring Jack Nicholson & Louis Fletcher directed by Milos Forman und Orion Pictures co-financed successor to Michael Mann's "Manhunter" (1986) "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) starring Jodie Foster and Sir Anthony Hopkins directed by Jonathan Demme (1944-2017).© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

George Taylor I finally got around to watching this and didn't find it funny at all. I may have laughed twice in the whole movie. It's quite clear that the leads, Gable and Colbert, didn't care for being in it, and neither character is very sympathetic at all. It seems very paint by numbers, and just ambles along. I have to agree with Claudette Colbert, who couldn't understand why it was and remained so popular. I found it quite overrated and can't hold a candle to many other comedies to come out of the 30's. Also to call it screwball - well let's just not.

grantss Ellie Andrews is the daughter of a Wall Street mogul. Her father is highly protective of her and isn't pleased when she elopes, marrying a man she hardly knows. Ellie runs away from her father sets off across country to get to her husband in New York. On the bus she meets a recently-fired reporter, Peter Warne. The two don't get along but, figuring out who she is, and knowing that her father will have every route into New York covered with private detectives, he offers to help her get to a husband. In exchange he wants an exclusive on her story. The two tag along together, getting through some interesting adventures. Over time they even get to like each other...A gem of a film from legendary director Frank Capra. I was expecting a rather standard romantic drama but It Happened One Night is so much better than that. Warm, and hilariously funny at times, it's certainly not your average romantic comedy. Dialogue is incredibly fresh and snappy and even the romantic side is not straightforward, keeping the schmaltz to a minimum and taking some unpredictable twists and turns.The great direction by Capra and the solid script are aided by wonderful performances from Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in the lead roles. The chemistry between them is great and their delivery is spot-on.Both Gable and Colbert received Oscars for their performances, as did Capra for Best Director. The movie was the well-deserved 1935 Best Picture Oscar winner.Though not Frank Capra's first movie, not by any means, this was the movie that put him on the map and kick-started a run of creativity that would see him make such classics as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It With You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Meet John Doe, Arsenic and Old Lace and, of course, It's a Wonderful Life.