It Happened One Night (1934)

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It Happened One Night Blu-ray PRE-ORDER

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New conversation between critics Molly Haskell and Phillip Lopate
Frank Capra’s American Dream, a 1997 feature-length documentary
Director Frank Capra’s first film, the 1922 silent short The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding House
American Film Institute tribute to Capra from 1982
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehm

Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (Clark Gable) who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon. Featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered, this is the birth of the screwball comedy.

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