It Happened One Night 1934 123movies

Watch: It Happened One Night 1934 123movies, Full Movie Online – Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father’s yacht and out of King’s clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. Actually, Warne doesn’t give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he’ll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants …. a really juicy newspaper story..
Plot: A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Ratings:

	8.1/10 Votes: 104,663
	98% | RottenTomatoes
	87/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 975 Popularity: 12.751 | TMDB

Reviews:

Made nearly 90 years ago and still fun to watch. Sarcastic, witty, and entertaining. “Mind if I tried? … You? Don’t make me laugh.”

A classical comedy which would be setting some standards with great performance from Clark Gable.

Clean Sweep
Consider this, “It Happened One Night” was made in 1933 which gives it the distinction 70+ years later of being the oldest film still widely viewed by mainstream audiences. And most of the runner-ups for oldest film are 1930’s screwball comedies inspired by the success of this seminal film which made a clean sweep of the 1934 Academy Awards. The genre has held up over the years because these are small human stories with themes that are still relevant.

The main reason “It Happened One Night” worked then and still works today is the accidental pairing of Colbert and Gable, who provide an amazing chemistry under Frank Capra’s direction. Columbia Pictures was a small player in the early days of talking pictures and studio head Harry Cohn had difficulty rounding up two major stars to play the leads in this modest budget production. Colbert was not interested in doing another Capra film after a negative experience working for him six years earlier in her silent picture debut. Cohn told Capra: “That French broad likes money” and Capra finally got her on board with an offer of $50,000 (double her usual price) and a guarantee that production would only last 28 days. Gable was under contract to MGM but had been making trouble for them so as punishment Louis B. Mayer personally loaned him to Columbia for this film.

The film had a lot else going for it; a motivated Capra, a great script that would play well with small town America, and a good ensemble of supporting talent. The story concerns a spoiled young heiress (Colbert) trying to escape the control of her father (nicely played by Walter Connelly). Dodging her father’s private detective she takes a Miami to New York bus where she meets a recently fired reporter (Gable) who agrees to help her in exchange for an exclusive story. Cozy quarters and many adventures lead them to change their initial opinions of each other (brainless brat and obnoxious bully) as an undisclosed affection develops. On the eve of their arrival in New York they try to sort out their feelings for each other.

While the script is not really successful in convincingly illustrating the process of their falling in love (one minute they are just friends and the next they are in love), Capra is able to sell it with a simple connection process between these two characters which is at work throughout the film. As another reviewer has written: “Far from lovey-dovey, the dialogue is witty, sharp and occasionally heartless. We may know the outcome, but the road to get there is paved with arguments, anger and misunderstandings. It’s also clever, funny and a bit risqué (for 1934)” . During their three days and nights together Colbert convincingly gives us a character who matures from a spoiled rich girl to a responsible adult, motivated by a desire to improve her companion’s opinion of her. Gable shows real star presence, playing a confident, charming, and resourceful gentleman. By the end their sudden love is credible because they have demonstrated that they are both exactly what the other is looking for in a partner.

After the Oscar ceremony Capra threw a party where he downed a magnum of champagne and passed out on his front lawn clutching his Best Director Oscar.

Then again, what do I know? I’m only a child.

A Great Romance, Even If Implausible (Aren’t They All?)
A spoiled heiress (Claudette Colbert), running away from her family, is helped by a man (Clark Gable) who is actually a reporter looking for a story.

In this film “a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father’s thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter”, which, you know, is something that happens when spoiled daughters discover that they want to live like common people and do what common people do (like go to supermarkets).

The film was the first to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay), a feat that would not be matched until “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) and later by “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991). And it is not really surprising when you see it… besides, it is Clark Gable and Frank Capra.

So, this might not be as outright funny as other films, and even as far as screwball comedies go, it sort of lags behind “The Awful Truth” with Cary Grant. But Clark Gable has a debonair charm to him… from the very beginning he has that attitude about him that women mysteriously love. I am a little confused about the laid-back approach to marriage and annulment, but this is a romance, and that is not uncommon… if anything, it shows how fickle the socialite is.

Overall, a very enjoyable film. Not my favorite of the era, but well worth a watch or two. And heck, if such a film can inspire the creation of Bugs Bunny and entertain Joseph Stalin… can it be so bad?

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min), 1 hr 5 min (65 min) (cut TV) (West Germany)
Budget 325000
Revenue 4500000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director Frank Capra
Writer Robert Riskin, Samuel Hopkins Adams
Actors Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Country United States
Awards Won 5 Oscars. 11 wins & 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Columbia Studio Laboratory, USA
Film Length 2,874.57 m (11 reels), 2,933 m (Netherlands)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2022 remaster), Dolby Vision, Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm