It Happened One Night - blu-ray - Import

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly) who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York, Ellie gets involved with an out-of-work newsman, Peter Warne (Gable). When their bus breaks down, the bickering couple set off on a madcap hitchhiking expedition. Complications fly when the runaway heiress and brash reporter fall in love. Directed by Frank Capra, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT was the first movie to be honoured with all five major Oscars(r): Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Now fully restored in 4K, experience this timeless comedy like never before.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

• New 4K digital restoration, with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Screwball Comedy - new conversation between critics Molly Haskell and Phillip Lopate
• Interview with Frank Capra Jr. from 1999
• Frank Capra’s American Dream – a 1997 feature-length documentary about the director’s life and career
• New digital transfer of Capra’s first film, the 1921 silent short Fultah Fisher’s Boarding House, with a score composed and performed by Donald Sosin
• American Film Institute tribute to Capra from 1982
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme