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It Happened One Night

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It Happened One Night
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFrank Capra
Screenplay byRobert Riskin
Based on"Night Bus"
1933 story in Cosmopolitan
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJoseph Walker
Edited byGene Havlick
Music by
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • February 22, 1934 (1934-02-22)
Running time
105 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$325,000[2]
Box office$2.5 million (worldwide rentals)[3]
The film's trailer

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. Classified as a "pre-Code" production, the film is among the last romantic comedies created before the MPPDA began rigidly enforcing the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code in July 1934. It Happened One Night was released just four months prior to that enforcement.[4]

It is seen as one of the greatest films ever made. It Happened One Night is the first of only three films (along with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of the Lambs) to win all five major Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1993, it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[5][6] In 2013, the film underwent an extensive restoration by Sony Pictures.[7][8] The film's copyright was renewed in 1962, and under current United States law it will enter the public domain on January 1, 2030.[9]

  1. ^ "'It Happened One Night' (A)." Archived August 2, 2020, at the Wayback Machine British Board of Film Classification, March 13, 1934; retrieved November 18, 2014.
  2. ^ Rudy Behlmer, Behind the Scenes, Samuel French, 1990 p. 37
  3. ^ "Wall St. Researchers' Cheery Tone". Variety. November 7, 1962. p. 7.
  4. ^ Brown 1995, p. 118.
  5. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Archived from the original on December 17, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  6. ^ "National Film Registry." Archived March 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Library of Congress. Retrieved: October 28, 2011.
  7. ^ "Restoring the Frank Capra Classic, It Happened One Night". Archived July 9, 2017, at the Wayback Machine CreativeCOW.net. Retrieved: April 16, 2014.
  8. ^ "Colorworks completes brilliant 4K restoration of Frank Capra classic 'It Happened One Night'". Archived April 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Shoot, November 18, 2013. Retrieved: April 16, 2014.
  9. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Library of Congress. 1962. Retrieved December 28, 2023.

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