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It Happened One Night (Original title)
Date: 1934 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: Frank Capra

Production company billing: ©1934. Columbia Pictures Corporation Harry Cohn - president [logo] a Columbia production Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Frank Capra production [end] [logo] this is a Columbia picture
Synopsis: Peter Warne, a tenacious reporter follows a runaway heiress across America in a bus in order to secure a scoop.

Genres:
Comedy, Road movie

Subjects:
Journalists, Heirs, Buses
Releases
Date: 22 February 1934Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 105 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 30 April 1934Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 105 mins Language: English
Date: 1986Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: VHS Videocassette - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Language: English
Date: 29 October 2010Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: Digital Video - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Language: English

Credits (16)
©: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Presents: Columbia Pictures Corporation, [Executive Producer]: Harry Cohn, [Assistant Director]: C.C. Coleman Jr, Screen Play by: Robert Riskin, Based on the short story by: Samuel Hopkins Adams, Photography: Joseph Walker, Film Editor: Gene Havlick, [Art Director]: Stephen Goossón, [Costumes]: Kalloch, Musical Director: Louis Silvers, [Orchestration]: Howard Jackson, [Sound Engineer]: Edward Bernds, Sound System: Western Electric Noiseless Recording, [General Press Agent]: George Brown
Cast (66)
Clark Gable (Peter Warne), Claudette Colbert (Ellie Andrews), Walter Connolly (Alexander Andrews), Roscoe Karns (Oscar Shapeley), Jameson Thomas (King Westley), Alan Hale (Danker), Arthur Hoyt (Zeke), Blanche Friderici (Zeke's wife), Charles C. Wilson (Joe Gordon, city editor), Ward Bond ([first bus driver]), Eddy Chandler ([second bus driver]), Harry Holman ([third auto camp owner]), Maidel Turner ([auto camp manager's wife]), Irving Bacon ([gas station attendant]), Wallis Clark ([Lovington]), Charles D. Brown ([reporter]), Harry C. Bradley ([Henderson]), Harry Todd ([flag man]), Frank Yaconelli ([Tony]), Henry Wadsworth ([drunken boy]), Claire Mcdowell ([mother]), Ky Robinson, Frank Holliday, James Burke, Joseph Crehan ([detective]), Mickey Daniels ([vendor]), Oliver Eckhardt ([Dykes]), George Breakston ([boy]), Bess Flowers ([Agnes, the secretary]), Neal Dodd ([minister]), Edmund Burns ([best man]), Ethel Sykes ([maid of honour]), Thomas Ricketts ([prissy old man]), Eddie Kane ([radio announcer]), Eva Dennison ([society woman]), Fred Walton ([butler]), Matty Roubert ([newsboy]), Milton Kibbee, Sherry Hall ([reporter]), Earl Pingree, Harry Hume ([policeman]), Ernie Adams, Kit Guard, Billy Engle, Allen Fox, Marvin Loback, Dave Wengren, Bert Starkey, Rita Ross, Kate Morgan, Rose May, Margaret Reid, Sam Josephson, Ray Creighton, John Wallace, Mimi Lindell, Blanche Rose, Jane Tallent, Charles Wilroy, Patsy O'Byrne, Harry Schultz, Bert Scott, Emma Tansey, Marvin Shector, William McCall, S.S. Simon ([bus passenger])