IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT.

At head of title: Columbia Pictures Corporation presents Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It happened one night.; Based on the short story Night bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan (Aug. 1933).; Additional credits taken from the AFI catalog of feature films, 1931- 1940. Technical credits: Producer, Harry Cohn; assistant director, C. C. Coleman; art director, Stephen Goosson; costumes, Robert Kolloch; sound engineer, E. L. Bernds. Cast: Ward Bond, Eddie Chandler (Bus drivers), Wallis Clark (Lovington), Harry Bradley (Henderson), Charlie Brown (Reporter), Harry Holman (Third auto camp owner), Maidel Turner (His wife), Irving Bacon (Station attendant), Harry Todd (Flagman), Henry Wadsworth (Drunk boy), Claire McDowell (Mother), Ky Robinson, Frank Holliday, James Burke, Joseph Crehan (Detectives), Matty Roubert (Newsboy), Sherry Hall, Milton Kibbee (Reporters), Mickey Daniels (Vendor), Earl M. Pingree (First policeman), Harry Hume (Second policeman), Oliver Eckhardt (Dykes), George Breakston (Boy), Bess Flowers (Secretary), Fred Walton (Butler), Ethel Sykes (Maid of honor), Father Dodd (Minister), Edmund Burns (Best man), Tom Ricketts (Prissy old man), Eva Dennison (Society woman), Eddie Kane (Radio announcer), Frank Yaconelli (Tony), Kate Morgan, Rose May, Margaret Reid, Sam Josephson, Bert Startkey, Ray Creighton, Rita Ross, Ernie Adams, John Wallace, Billy Engle, Allen Fox, Marvin Loback, Mimi Lindell, Blanche Rose, Dave Wengren, Jane Tallent, Charles; Wilroy, Patsy O'Byrne, Kit Guard, Harry Schultz, Bert Scott, Emma Transey, Marvin Shector, William McCall, S. S. Simon (Bus passengers).; Copyright Columbia Pictures Corp. 17 Feb 1934; LP4497.; Premiered in New York Feb. 22, 1934; general release, Feb. 23, 1934.; Original running time: 01:45:00. This print's running time : 01:43:87.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Photography, Joseph Walker A.S.C.; film editor, Gene Havlick; musical director, Louis Silvers; Western Electric recording.; The players: Clark Gable (Peter [Warne]), Claudette Colbert (Ellie [Andrews]), Walter Connolly ([Alexander] Andrews), Roscoe Karns ([Oscar] Shapeleye), Jameson Thomas ([King] Westley), Alan Hale (Danker), Arthur Hoyt (Zeke), Blanche Friderici (Zeke's wife), Charles C. Wilson ([Joe] Gordon).; Filmed Nov. 13- Dec. 22, 1933 and Jan. 8-12, 1934 at various locations in southern California: Thousand Oaks, and at the RKO ranch in Encino and Sunland.; Original format: 11 reels (9431 ft.) : opt sd., b&w ; 35 mm. nitrate.; PFA 1616-108-8513. D0108; PFA 1616-108-8513. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 1994 Apr; splices; scratches; Poor condition: reel 1 (1131 ft., 30 fr.): extremely scratched and dozens of cement splices; edge code: KODAK 20 SAFETY POSITIVE - KODAK [triangle] + SAFETY POSITIVE; reel 2 (1316 ft., 27 ft.): extremely scratched; edge code: KODAK 36 SAFETY POSITIVE - KODAK [triangle] + SAFETY POSITIVE; reel 3 (1278 ft., 11 fr.): EXTREMELY spliced: there are so many splices with frames cut out in this reel that at times the dialogue and action are jumbled; extremely scratched; edge code: KODAK 32 SAFETY POSITIVE - KODAK [triangle] + SAFETY POSITIVE

Spoiled heiress Ellen "Ellie" Andrews has eloped with pilot and fortune-hunter King Westley against the wishes of her extremely wealthy father, Alexander Andrews. Andrews wants to have the marriage annulled because he knows Westley is really only interested in her money. Ellie runs away and boards a Greyhound bus to New York City to reunite with her husband. Peter Warne, a freshly out-of-work newspaper reporter, helps Ellie reunite.