It Happened One Night
feature film, comedy, USA, 1934
DIRECTED BY: Frank Capra
CAST:
Clark Gable (Peter Warne),
Claudette Colbert (Ellie Andrews),
Walter Connolly (Andrews),
Jameson Thomas (King Westley)
SCRIPT:
Robert Riskin (based on story by Samuel Hopkins Adams)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Joseph Walker
MUSIC:
Howard Jackson
EDITING:
Gene Havlick
Synopsis:
Ellie Andrews is a young woman who secretly marries the snobbish airplane pilot King Westley. Her father dislikes it and gets the marriage annulled. Ellie runs away from her father’s yacht and goes to New York to meet King Westley. She trades her watch in a pawnshop and buys a bus ticket for the trip. Her father hires a detective to track her. On her travels, Ellie gets mugged and meets a journalist who promises to help her in exchange for her story.
b/w, 105'