Alexander Andrews: "Oh, er, do you mind if I ask you a question, frankly? Do you love my daughter?
Peter Warne: Any guy that'd fall in love with your daughter ought to have his head examined.
Alexander Andrews: Now that's an evasion!"
Storyline
Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) has just got married to society aviator King Westley when she is taken away to her father's yacht and out of King's arms. Because he doesn’t aprove this marriage.
Ellie escapes from the ship and got up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of-work reporter Peter Warne (Clark Gable). Actually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she stays with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll tell her father.
Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story, but things get complicated from the very first moment he meets Ellie.
A fantastic Frank Capra film.
Ranked as the # 46 Greatest Movie of All Time by the American Film Institute.
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
