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Summary: Best Movie Ever! (Really)
Review: I have loved this movie forever. It is the simple story of a poor little rich girl (Colbert)who runs away from her tycoon father in hopes of making it to New York to wed her playboy fiance. A newspaper reporter (Gable) is on her trail and hopes to get the scoop of the season by cozying up to her and getting the inside story of her surprise wedding. When their night bus breaks down, the bickering couple hitchike to New York. Of course, sparks fly between the two of them as they fall in love. This is a terrifically funny movie that tells a great story. Along the way, the movie offers up a snapshot of 1934 American life that is true and vanished. Everyone loves this movie. People who hate black and white movies love this movie. Even cool 19 year old boys who only relate to the Sopranos love this movie. I have never known anyone who watched this movie who didn't also love it.
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Summary: What a funny movie!
Review: This movie is one laugh after another with a great story. You've probably read the story from other reviewers, so I won't remind you, but I just thought the plot was very clever and the humor just has to make you laugh. I really didn't like Clark Gable before I saw this movie, but my opinion of him improved after seeing this movie. I even got my mom to see this and she loved it as well! The DVD is great and the VHS is great. either way, you can't lose!:)
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Summary: Nice Old Movie
Review: This is a nice old movie that I got from my dad's collection when he died. I'm not a huge fan of old movies but this one isn't too bad.
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Summary: One of the truly good ones
Review: I feel like a kid in the candy store. Having finally purchased the DVD of this wonderful film there's a sense that I did something right. This film has no heavy moral ambiguity but it still has a wonderful portrayal of the human condition in America. Clark Gable as Peter Warne is a lovable cad of a newsman. He's not terrible but he is manipulative. He's also sincere. I never know just when he actually falls in love with the swanky material girl, Ellen Andrews, played by the spunky Claudette Colbert, but you know it's happening along every step of their reluctant road trip. Her change of heart is forced upon her when the reality of how she will miss Peter when the trip is over. She learns a little humility and he learns that even the rich and spoiled can be sincere as well as fall in love with a regular Joe. This is such a delightful pairing that it's amazing that I've never seen them paired again in other movies. Marvelous chemestry exists between them and they are the perfect foil for each other's hard-headed assuptions about the other. This movie is also a wonderful slice of director Frank Capra's gift for revealing genuine scenes of Americans and Americana. Our strengths and our faults ride side by side throughout the odyssey from Miami to New York. The strengths win out with a few personal compromises leading to revelations along the way. I caught myself smiling by the movie's end.No surprise there.The picture on this DVD is full screen and not widescreen. Having never seen the film is a theater I have no idea if any cropping occurred. However, the picture is surprisingly clean and clear.All around, this is some of the best money I've spent on a DVD.
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Summary: HAHA...
Review: This classic film is SO AMAZINGLY FUNNY!!! It includes some of the most famous scenes in Hollywood history, including Clark Gable trying to hitch a ride, and teaching Claudette Colbert how to "properly" dunk a doughnut. The two stars are great in their Oscar-winning performances. I just can't get enough of either of them! The only complaint I have is when Gable goes off in search of food w/out telling Colbert, and she COMPLETELY freaks out. Not funny. Annoying. I'm too lazy to look up the names of the dudes who played Colbert's father and fiance, King Westley. Let's just say this, though: the dad is really funny and entertaining!!! Westley is, to put it politely, a major FREAK OF NATURE!!! I totally recommend this movie to anyone!!!
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Summary: And the walls of Jericho came tumbling down...
Review: This movie was the first (as I understand it )to take home every main oscar of the fateful night , including :
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. And it deserved every one of them.
Brilliant story plot, which is actually very simple, and also which I will take the time to explain now.
Ellie(Colbert) runs away from her father and is trying to get to her fiancee, while Gable plays Peter Warner, a guy who meets her on a bus and thinks of her only as a front page story(but not for long)and is trying to help her get to her fiancee so she will give it to him. On the way they encounter
obstacles like the walls of Jericho and sing songs like "The Man On the Flying Trapeze" and inevitably fall in love.
This is a gem of a movie that I highly reccomend for any Capracorn lovers.
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Summary: DVD not worth the premium price.
Review: Is this the best source print that Columbia/Sony could come up with? For shame! The high resolution of the DVD medium merely serves to reveal the poor quality of the source elements used in mastering. I have seen this title on VHS tape as well as DVD and am convinced that the DVD edition offers little improvement over the image and sound of the VHS edition. If you have a quality VCR, you can enjoy significant savings without compromising your viewing experience, by opting for the VHS edition. "It Happened One Night" is currently out of print on VHS. So, save money while you enjoy this highly entertaining film on VHS, at least until Columbia/Sony gets around to restoring this much loved classic.
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Summary: ORIGINAL ROAD TRIP HITS A FEW BUMPS IN ITS TRANSFER QUALITY
Review: "It Happened One Night" is the story of Peter Warren, a newspaper hound who discovers that missing heiress, Ellie McPherson (Claudette Colbert) is actually travelling with him on the night bus across country. Determined to expose Ellie, Peter finds himself falling for her instead. Director Frank Capra's original road trip movie gives us some real gems, not the least of which is watching Ellie hoist her skirt up to passer-bys on the open road in order to secure suitable transporation for she and Peter.
Unfortunately, Columbia Home Video's presentation of this Academy Award winning masterwork is a general disappointment. While the film has had extensive restoration, thanks to the Library of Congress, the DVD exhibits a generally soft picture with slightly out of focus images. Some scenes suggest that dupe negatives were intercut with first generation camera negative footage. There is some aliasing and shimmering of fine details, as well as an almost total loss of fine details during many of the scenes taking place at night. But again, the really distracting characteristic of the visual presentation is its overly soft image quality. The soundtrack has been restored as well but it continues to exhibit a scratchy sound with background hiss and distracting pops with varying degrees of audibility. For shame!
The one extra is "Frank Capra Jr. Remembers..." a snippet where the son of the director talks about his father and the movie. It's too short and really bare bones. Perhaps someone at Columbia should examine Warner's "Mildred Pierce" documentary or "Lana Turner: A Daughter Remembers" to see how a proper tribute to an American classic is paid.
BOTTOM LINE: If you absolutely must own this movie (and I must admit, I do - if only for its original charm and stellar acting) I suppose you could run out and buy it. Just don't expect much for your money.
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Summary: Unparalleled romantic comedy
Review: Frank Capra's It Happened One Night is a hilarious battle of the sexes that has lost little of its charm, despite the passage of almost seventy years. Clark Gable is at his best, and funniest, as the wise-talking, street-smart New York journalist who stumbles upon the spoiled and precocious Claudette Colbert, a rich kid on the run from her millionnaire father and an unwanted bridegroom. Together, Gable and Colbert have the chemistry to make this witty comedy triumph. Sexuality is dealt with humorously, though never in a contrived or censorious manner. On the contrary, every moment breathes raw sexuality, and eyebrows will be raised more than once, despite the lack of explicit sexual content. In an age of cinema when sexual humour is often nothing more than sheer crudity, It Happened One Night is an inspiredly hilarious, masterfully executed and supremely adult sex comedy that knows the difference between humour and vulgarity.
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Summary: A funny an dfirst rate entertaining film!
Review: Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable make a wonderfully romantic couple. They are sweet one moment and fightin gin the next. It has comedy, drama, romance, and a good storyline. Claudette's father kidnaps her on his boat to stop her from going back to a husband that he forbad her to nmarry and Clark ends up helping her find her way back to him. Really good, classic, and funny.
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