Film · 1934 · Romantic comedy
It Happened One Night
Directed by Frank Capra
1934
★ 7.7 editorial score
It helped launch the screwball comedy and left fingerprints on every romance that followed: a runaway heiress, a broke reporter, a night bus, and a blanket hung between two beds.
“At a time when the country was divided and suffering from the class polarization of the Depression, here was a movie that deftly asserted our shared humanity and the possibility for all good people to pursue happiness, regardless of the things that divide them...it’s nearly impossible to find anyone who doesn’t love it. Or doesn’t feel, in some way, that it speaks to them.”
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1934Depicts 1930s
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