Saturday Night Cinema: It Happened One Night

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Tonight's Saturday Night Cinema is film classic, It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable (yummy!) and Claudette Colbert. Frank Capra's merry romance classic won all five major Academy Awards for 1934.
It is still fresh and snappy and great fun. I love Gable and he is superb.

Below is the 1934 NY Times film review. "What the Times reviewer didn't know was that
this movie, one of the funniest and most engaging of all time, would
sweep the Oscars, and set a standard for romantic comedies and road
pictures that would rarely if ever be matched. Gable is at his peak,
thoroughly charming and consistently amusing, a man's man if ever there
was one. Colbert has a difficult role to put across, since she must be
feckless, willful and often annoying while still being likeable. She
succeeds, and her performance stands up to many viewings. For this reviewer's money, the best scene is the sing-along on the bus. I've never seen anything like it.
" – Nate Levin, metro NYC

It Happened One Night (1934)

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Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in a Merry Jaunt From Miami to New York.

Published: February 23, 1934

There are few serious moments in "It Happened One Night," a screen
feast which awaits visitors to the Radio City, and if there is a welter
of improbable incidents these hectic doings serve to generate plenty of
laughter. The pseudo suspense is kept on the wing until a few seconds
before the picture ends, but it is a foregone conclusion that the
producers would never dare to have the characters acted by Clark Gable
and Claudette Colbert separated when the curtain falls.

In this merry romance, which is an adaptation of a magazine story by
Samuel Hopkins Adams, Peter Warne (Mr. Gable) and Ellie Andrews (Miss
Colbert) enjoy the discomforts of a long-distance bus ride; they also
experience the pain of hitch-hiking and the joys of tourist camps.
Besides these glimpses, one beholds Alexander Andrews searching for his
daughter in an airplane, expostulating with secretaries and sleuths
because he is unable to find the missing girl, incidentally an heiress.

Warne is one of those crack newspaper men frequently discovered in
Hollywood's spacious studios. He does not hesitate to tell his superiors
in outbursts of slang precisely what he thinks of them, even though his
finances at the time are at a low ebb. Ellie is an obstinate young
person, who to spite her father has become the wife (in name only) of a
dashing young man named King Westley. She finds herself virtually a
prisoner on her father's yacht and, in the introductory scenes, she is
on a hunger strike. Soon afterward she darts from her cabin to the deck,
leaps overboard and swims for Florida and freedom.

It is while she is on her way from Miami to New York that she
encounters Warne, an audacious person. To make matters more interesting,
the producers or the author decide that the fiery Ellie must have her
suitcase stolen. As days go by, Warne and Ellie experience the pangs of
hunger and, at one period, they have to content themselves with a meal
of raw carrots.

"It Happened One Night" is a good piece of fiction, which, with all
its feverish stunts, is blessed with bright dialogue and a good quota of
relatively restrained scenes. Although there are such flighty notions
as that of having Ellie running away from a marriage ceremony when the
guests—and particularly King Westley—had expected to hear her say "I
will"; or those depicting Warne volleying vituperation over the
telephone at his city editor; there are also more sober sequences
wherein Warne and Ellie spread cheer to the audience, notwithstanding
their sorry adventures with little or no money.

Miss Colbert gives an engaging and lively performance. Mr. Gable is
excellent in his rôle. Roscoe Karns affords no little fun by his
flirtatious conduct on board a bus. Walter Connolly is in his element as
Ellie's father and Alan Hale gives a robust portrayal of an artful
owner of a flivver.


IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, based on a story by Samuel Hopkins Adams; directed by Frank Capra; a Columbia production. At the Radio City Music Hall.

Peter Warne . . . . . Clark Gable

Ellie Andrews . . . . . Claudette Colbert

Alexander Andrews . . . . . Walter Connolly

Mr. Shapeley . . . . . Roscoe Karns

King Westley . . . . . Jameson Thomas

Danker . . . . . Alan Hale

Lovington . . . . . Wallis Clark

Henderson . . . . . Harry Bradley

Zeke . . . . . Arthur Hoyt

Zeke's wife . . . . . Blanche Frederici

 

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Biff Henderson
Biff Henderson
10 years ago

After the G-20 someone has to start working on a screenplay of the One. I’ve got a working title. Citizen Inane.

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10 years ago

TR released an hour ago….stitched up again.
https://twitter.com/EDLTrobinson

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10 years ago

stiched up, not literally of course.

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10 years ago

TOWER HAMLETS Demo Speech – Tommy Robinson at Aldgate, 7/9/2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfibdZCVy1Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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10 years ago

This muslim guy boasts about beating up an EDL supporter today, was arrested and released without charge. Why no charges? He fully admits beating up his victim.
https://twitter.com/IB_Rakim

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10 years ago

Second and last part of Tommy Robinson’s speech at Tower Hamlets yesterday. http://youtu.be/UEmlkicZj-E
Truthful and robust. Good on Tommy for including Syria in his speech. Demo – huge turnout, thousands attended. Passed off peacefully, except for (the usual) hundreds of aggressive commie mentally degenerates, extremists/anarchists/journos etc, who were arrested, scooped off the streets and plonked into police transport vehicles, where they were then driven to different police stations. The girls blouses haven’t stopped whining about wrongful arrests since – not so funny when it happens to them, oh no! hee hee!

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10 years ago

UK: EDL leader jailed following speech against David Cameron
http://www.discourseinstitute.org/2013/news/1851/
Well written piece Authored by: The Discourse Institute .

EJO
EJO
10 years ago

If the Shrugger in Chief had a son. . .
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Boy genius diagnosed with autism has IQ higher than Einstein
Kristine Barnett noticed that her little boy Jacob – whom doctors had tagged as autistic – seemed to have a fascination with patterns. So she took him out of his school’s special ed program and let him study the things he’s passionate about.
Now Jacob is on his way to winning a Nobel Prize.
By Carol Kuruvilla / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, May 10, 2013, 7:59 PM
Jacob Barnett, who was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism at 2 years old, is now studying for a master’s degree in quantum physics.
As a child, doctors told Jacob Barnett’s parents that their autistic son would probably never know how to tie his shoes.
But experts say the 14-year-old Indiana prodigy has an IQ higher than Einstein’s and is on the road to winning a Nobel Prize.
He’s given TedX talks and is working toward a master’s degree in quantum physics.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/autistic-boy-genius-iq-higher-einstein-article-1.1340923#ixzz2eEmmXTTp

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