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Best Picture Movie Reviews: 1934: It Happened One Night
1934: It Happened One Night
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This one might be the least flashy of the movies I've watched so far, but still quite entertaining. The basic plot is a romantic comedy, and follows the pampered daughter, Ellie, as she tries to escape from her father to be with her love, King, who her father does not approve of.
She escapes from their yacht in Miami, and attempts to head home to new York to be with King, which she does by taking a Greyhound, and evading his detectives on the way. At the beginning of her trip, she meets up with an out-of-work newspaper reporter, Peter, who helps her stay hidden in exchange for the story. They end up falling in love, antics and hardships occur, things almost fall apart, etc. etc.
This was the first movie to win all of the big 5 Academy Awards (Best Actor, Actress, Picture, Director, Screenplay), which is actually quite amazing given the conditions it was made under. It wasn't a huge budget film, and it was filmed in only a month as Claudette Colbert (Ellie) had a vacation planned. She also thought the movie was terrible, but a great chemistry between Claudette and Clark Gable (Peter) develops, and despite the limited budget, they do really well with what they have. Apparently it wasn't originally a huge critical success either.
There are parts that are hilariously funny (the mock old-married-couple-fight in the cottage, the hitchhiking scenes). Quite entertaining!
Interestingly, a movie I watched just recently, Changeling, which takes place in 1934 mentions this film, and it was interestingly coincidental that this was the film zip.ca sent me next.
Next up is 1936's 3 hour musical, The Great Ziegfeld, which might stretch my attention span. :)
[Zip.ca] [IMDB] [Wikipedia]
This one might be the least flashy of the movies I've watched so far, but still quite entertaining. The basic plot is a romantic comedy, and follows the pampered daughter, Ellie, as she tries to escape from her father to be with her love, King, who her father does not approve of.
She escapes from their yacht in Miami, and attempts to head home to new York to be with King, which she does by taking a Greyhound, and evading his detectives on the way. At the beginning of her trip, she meets up with an out-of-work newspaper reporter, Peter, who helps her stay hidden in exchange for the story. They end up falling in love, antics and hardships occur, things almost fall apart, etc. etc.
This was the first movie to win all of the big 5 Academy Awards (Best Actor, Actress, Picture, Director, Screenplay), which is actually quite amazing given the conditions it was made under. It wasn't a huge budget film, and it was filmed in only a month as Claudette Colbert (Ellie) had a vacation planned. She also thought the movie was terrible, but a great chemistry between Claudette and Clark Gable (Peter) develops, and despite the limited budget, they do really well with what they have. Apparently it wasn't originally a huge critical success either.
There are parts that are hilariously funny (the mock old-married-couple-fight in the cottage, the hitchhiking scenes). Quite entertaining!
Interestingly, a movie I watched just recently, Changeling, which takes place in 1934 mentions this film, and it was interestingly coincidental that this was the film zip.ca sent me next.
Next up is 1936's 3 hour musical, The Great Ziegfeld, which might stretch my attention span. :)