It Happened One Night

Blessedly free of the ‘Capra-Corn’ that would dog the director’s later work, this much-imitated romcom – winner of five Oscars in 1935 – finds Clark Gable’s unemployed reporter joining forces with Claudette Colbert’s on-the-lam heiress, on a cross-country road trip that sees her shallow socialite redeemed by his honest commoner.

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