It Happened One Night (DVD)

A rich woman becomes distraught and runs away from home when her father refuses her to marry the man she loves. Meanwhile her father puts up a prize for the return of his daughter. She marries an out of work reporter who agrees to help her as long as she sells him an exclusive. As the two travellers spend time with each other they fall in love. Just before the film ends both have reasons to believe betrayal. Things work out and they marry at the end. This was the first major comedy film made. Release date is 1934. The film is in black and white. They don't make films good as this any more. It was the first time that a film won five ...  Read the complete review

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is a wonderful film from 1934 starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. It tells the story of Ellie Andrews (played by Colbert) who is a spoiled heiress who runs away from her father when he tries to stop her from marrying her beloved. She comes across an unemployed reporter, Peter Warne (played by Gable) to whom she gives exclusive rights to her story in return for him reuniting him with her beloved. She doesn't really want to give him her story, but he blackmails her by saying that he will tell her father where she is if she doesn't. What follows is one of the first 'road movies' as the couple travel together. What starts off as an ...  Read the complete review