It Happened One Night (1934)

It'd been a while since we'd watched a movie as old as It Happened One Night, so we watched one, well 'it' on Saturday evening. It's one of 4 movies in a Frank Capra boxset, and the first one I've watched. The movie is a comedy starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert - she plays a spoilt heiress on the run from her father across country to her husband, he's a journalist who helps her evade capture along the way in return for her story. Of course, romance blooms. 

This movie was the first (of 3, the others being One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Silence of the Lambs) to win the big 5 Oscars, that is best actress, actor, director, script and picture, and while it may be hard to spot why today, over 75 years later, it's still a very well put together picture. The stars are first rate and the direction's good, and the film as a whole is satisfying. It's not quite the 'screwball' comedy the box promised, not in the same way that Bringing Up Baby is, but it's still funny. It's always interesting to see what film could get away with back then. It Happened One Night was enjoyable and I hope that the other Frank Capra movies in the collection prove to be even better since they come later in his career.