It Happened One Night in 4K
It Happened One Night in 4K
Free for Contributor-level and above members
The first film to win the “big five” Oscars—Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Directing, and Screenplay—is a rollicking romantic comedy that is as charming and delightful as when it was released nine decades ago. Claudette Colbert is the heiress fleeing her controlling father, and Clark Gable is the down-on-his-luck reporter who sees Colbert as his ticket to the big time until he unexpectedly finds himself falling for her. One in a string of hits directed by Frank Capra for Columbia Pictures, its success helped establish the studio as an industry force to be reckoned with.
DIRECTED BY: Frank Capra. WRITTEN BY: Robert Riskin. WITH: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns. 1934. 105 min. USA. B&W. English. 4K DCP.
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