It Happened One Night (U)

★★★★✭ The first of only three films to win the "Big Five" Oscars, this classic farce introduced the world to screwball and remains as fresh, fast and funny 90 years on. ~ ManchesterTheatres.com.

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To celebrate its 90th anniversary and 100 years of Columbia Pictures, Frank Capra's legendary screwball romantic comedy is lovingly restored in 4K.

The first film to sweep all five major Oscar® categories, this timeless romantic road-trip – starring Clark Gable as a rogue reporter and Claudette Colbert as a runaway bride.

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★★★★★ An old school classic. A must see. ~ Empire.

★★★★★ The grandaddy of all rom-coms is this ingenious, fabulously smutty and still relevant 90-year-old two-hander. ~ The Times.

★★★★★ As buoyant and elegant as bubbles in a glass of champagne, Frank Capra’s sublime 1934 comedy, written by long-time collaborator Robert Riskin, survives triumphantly because of its wit, charm, romantic idealism and its shrewd sketch of married life. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★★ Its fast-paced repartee, kooky heroine, witty gags, and class-crossing love story became hallmarks of the genre in such later films as My Man Godfrey (1936) and Bringing Up Baby (1938). ~ AllMovie.

★★★★★ As classy and charming a romantic comedy as you're ever likely to see, winning Oscars in all key departments - best film, director, actor, actress, screenplay (only One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of the Lambs have matched that achievement) - thanks to whizzkid director Frank Capra and a marvellous foil to Gable in leading lady Claudette Colbert. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★★ Both stars loathed the experience yet turned in two of their most enduring performances. ~ Total Film.