IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (a J!-ENT DVD Review)

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MOVIE COMPANY: Columbia Pictures
CAST:  Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
DIRECTED BY: Frank Capra
PRODUCED BY: Frank Capra
RATING: NOT RATED
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0025316
TYPE OF MOVIE: Romance, Comedy
DURATION: 105 minutes

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.  Peter hopes to parlay the inside story of their misadventures, into a job.  But 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 honored with all five major Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

DVD EXTRAS:

• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Black & White, Closed-captioned
• Commentary by the director’s son, Frank Capra, Jr.
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Vintage Advertising Materials
• Original Live Radio Broadcast

KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None that I know of

DVD REVIEW:

This is one of my favorite all time movies and to see it on DVD makes it much more special in the next viewing and another viewing later on with commentary from Frank Capra, Jr.

The movie deserves every Academy Award it has won and also to be recognized as one of the top 100 movies of all time by the American Film Institute.

The movie’s video and audio has been digitally remastered and the special features was very nice to see.  Especially the “Frank Capra Jr. Remembers” segment, the trailers, vintage advertising and the original live radio broadcast is an even added bonus.  As well as the commentary by Frank Capra’s son.

The only downer but yet interesting is to learn the behavior by our two main thespians behind-the-scenes especially with Claudette Colbert.

Otherwise it’s a great movie classic  that people must see!

THE MOVIE: A+
THE DVD EXTRAS: A+
THE DVD OVERALL:  A+