Fantastic!

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's a dumb film, enamored with its own cleverness when it's only half as clever as it thinks it is. Clark Gable plays an even more insufferable pretty boy than his usual shtick and Claudette Colbert plays a melodramatic archetype of the hysterical damsel. I hate both of them and I kept wishing that they would both get caught and the movie would just end so it would stop trying to get me to root for them. Detracting from my hatred a bit, however, is some very nice cinematography as well as some interesting and neat ways of incorporating the Great Depression setting without detracting from the main story. Some of the jokes landed quite nicely although most of them were either too dated or portrayed with too much hammy acting to get a laugh or even a chuckle. I'd give it a 4.5/10 as well as a sticker of essential American Cinema since I now know the origin of about a dozen running gags in current film and television.

OMG... this film so hilarious, clever and sweet. It has original story and fresh idea about romantic comedy. Clark Gable really did excellent job to bring this film more live. He is so funny, clever, and comical. Everything that he is doing in this film look so natural and funny. Definitely one of Clark's best performance. He really deserve an Oscar for his performance. Chemistry between he and Claudette Colbert very delightful and cute. Just simply romantic. Bravo!!!

A young woman from a wealthy background cracks under the pressure of her demanding lifestyle and runs away. On her way she meets a struggling reporter, who decides to stick with her with a story in mind. Together they experience the joys of life. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it might be because you've seen the 1953 classic, Roman Holiday, the plot of which fits the exact same description. This came first, however.The are also differences. Whereas Roman Holiday is a pretty clear romantic city comedy, this movie can best be described as a road trip movie. It's also a bit more dramatic, or at least not as clearly a comedy. Overall I find Roman Holiday to be the superior film, but that's mainly due to the strength of its main leads. It Happened One Night certainly has star power going for it, with Clark Gable proving himself Gregory Peck's equal in all ways that matter. But if you were to tell me Claudette Colbert was just as good in this as Audrey Hepburn was in Roman Holiday, I'd punch you. Not that Colbert is bad, mind you, but her character is written pretty passive. I blame mostly the era, but the problem still exists.Nevertheless, I do like this film. Frank Capra's light, idealistic world view is evident throughout and it's just such a joy to experience. In his world people still believe is basic goodness and there are no true villains. Or if there are, there are also plenty of people to laugh at them or to thwart their evil schemes. What can I say, they don't make movies like these anymore. An attempt to make a movie such as this nowadays just wouldn't fly. It would be seen as too naive. Its dialogue as too corny, its characters as lacking humane flaws. But in denying ourselves films such as these, we're losing something. Whether its simple honesty or something else. But we're losing it.And that's a shame.

Spoilers. Observations. Opinions.Clark and Claudette are excellent. I had put off seeing this film, because I thought that besides the leg-flashing hitchhiking part there must not be much interesting stuff in this movie.I finally watched it. It held my interest all the way through. It was funny and hilarious in places.Westley looked old enough to be Claudette's father. At the beginning, I thought Claudette was marrying her father's friend, another "old" man.Good to see Ward Bond, and an earlier version of tough looking Greyhound bus.Shapely was annoying, as he was supposed to be. The actor essayed the part well. Shapely believed it when Clark inferred that Shapely's children could end up being hurt. Hilarious! Tough guy Clark.Yes, I am interspersing the names of actors and characters.The father, in the end, paying off Westley, was a good move. This is part of the denouement of tying up the loose ends of the story. Clark, waiting in the car while the marriage ceremony was supposed to start, surely peeled off quite fast after that wonderful scene of Claudette running to meet him in her beautiful white wedding gown and veil.A singing Alan Hale was also hilarious. He was annoying to his passengers. He was the one whose car Claudette stopped when she raised up her skirt to her upper leg. Clark had failed in his ride-thumbing lessons; he couldn't flag down a car to save his neck.Clark pretended to be hard boiled, and Claudette pretended to be disinterested. Later, they had a meeting of the minds, er, hearts.This is a pre-code film. Pre-code films existed from near the beginning of sound films to around mid 1934. Pre-code allowed more sexuality, sexual innuendoes, adultery, violence, etc., than were allowed after this period. Church groups, moralists and Hollywood censors took care of that. Some pre-code things I noticed: motel managers wondered if sleepers Clark and Claudette were married. Claudette removed her clothes down to her slip. Clark showed his bare chest to Claudette. The beds were separate, and separated by a blanket draped over a rope, but they were in the same bedroom. Even Claudette raising her skirt up high on her thigh got a lot of the audience's attention when this film was new.