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It Happened One Night by Frank Capra.
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It Happened One Night
A spoiled and willful young heiress, cocooned from reality by bodyguards and her father's trillions, jumps ship off the Florida coast when her father wishes to have her re...
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It's a Wonderful Life
Although a box office failure in 1946, Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life today is a well-loved Christmas classic for many Americans. Combining sentimental ...
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Filmmaker Frank Capra (1897-1991) was 1930s Hollywood's top director, creating several immensely popular movies that captured the mood of the Depression-era United States and earning more Academy Awar...
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Director, writer, and producer Frank Capra, who made over fifty movies in a career spanning almost four decades, is best remembered for showcasing the virtues of ordinary people in sentimental human c...
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Critical Essay by Mordaunt Hall
There are few serious moments in "It Happened One Night," a screen feast …, and if there is a welter of improbable incidents these hectic doings se...
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Critical Essay by Otis C. Ferguson
Considering its subject, ["It Happened One Night"] is better than it has any right to be—better acted, better directed, better written…. ...
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It Happened One Night
Frank Capra
Frank Capra
Critical Essay by Mordaunt Hall
