It Happened One Night (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra (IT'S a WONDERFUL LIFE), about a spoiled runaway socialite (THE PALM BEACH STORY's Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (GONE WITH THE WIND's Clark Gable) who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon. Featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered, this is the birth of the screwball comedy.

Starring: Anouk Aimee, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Dorothee Blank, Annie Duperoux, Walter Connolly, Jacques Harden, Roscoe Karns, Elina Labourdette, Jameson Thomas, Margo Lion, Arthur Hoyt, Catherine Lutz, Blanche Friderici, Corinne Marchand, Charles C. Wilson, Marc Michel, Alan Scott, Eddie Chandler, Wallis Clark, Harry Bradley, Charlie Brown, Harry Holman, Claire McDowell, Ernie Adams, Blanche Frederici, Charles D. Brown, Charles Wilson, Douglas Carter, Earl Pingree, Ernie S. Adams, Ethel Sykes, Harry C. Bradley, Milt Kibbee, Rev. Neal Dodd, Eddy Chandler, Alan Hale, Ward Bond, Hal Price, Maidel Turner, Irving Bacon, Harry Todd, Henry Wadsworth, Ky Robinson, Frank Holliday, James Burke, Joseph Crehan, Matty Roubert, Sherry Hall, Milton Kibbee, Mickey Daniels, Earl M. Pingree, Oliver Eckhardt, George Breakston, Harry Hume, Bess Flowers, Fred Walton, Edmund Burns, Tom Ricketts, Eva Dennison, Eddie Kane, Father Dodd, Frank Yaconelli, Bert Starkey, John Wallace, Billy Engle, Allen Fox, Kate Morgan, Dave Wengren, Rose May, Margaret Reid, Patsy O'Byrne, Kit Guard, Sam Josephson, Harry Schultz, Emma Tansey, Ray Creighton, Rita Ross, William McCall, S. S. Simon, Marvin Loback, Mimi Lindell, Blanche Rose, Jane Tallent, Charles Wilroy, Bert Scott, Marvin Shector

Director: Frank Capra, Harry Cohn