It Happened One Night: A Second Look

Another example of why I really like revisiting these films I’ve seen before in the context of a filmmaker’s body of work because certain larger narrative aspects to the filmmaker’s career become clearer. It’s interesting to hear Frank Capra talk about It Happened One Night late in life with Letterman, he describes the script as a leftover, the coming together of the project as almost an accident, and the casting of Clark Gable as punishment from his home studio of MGM. This wasn’t something...