January 10, 2024

It Happened One Night (1934)

46 minutes

Episode 59: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT

Come hitch a ride with us as we revisit Frank Capra's classic screwball comedy, It Happened One Night. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert star in this rich mouse/poor mouse comic road movie from the early sound era.

It beat out eleven other nominees to win the Best Picture prize for 1934 and ranks #11 on our countdown.*

Spoiler Alert: We talk about the movie in its entirety, so if you haven't yet seen it, check it out. Or not. That ball is in your court.

Come back next week as we jump ahead more than eighty years for Bong Joon Ho's 2019 dark comedy Parasite.

*What is this list?

We explain it in more detail in our Trailer and its Description, but as a high-level answer: we aggregated several different lists that rank the ninety-four winners of the Best Picture Academy Award in a rough attempt to get a consensus. It is not intended to be rigorous or definitive. It's just a framework to guide our journey through cinema history.

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