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Post by topbilled on Nov 3, 2023 16:59:46 GMT
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Post by Fading Fast on Nov 3, 2023 17:22:31 GMT
I'm sure there were silent film road-trip movies, even nickelodeon road-trip movie (heck, the cavemen probably drew road-trip movies on cave walls), but "It Happened One Night" was a seminal one in the talking-picture era. I'd argue that for the next twenty years, Hollywood made a million copycat road-trip movies, some of which are quite good, trying to recapture the magic of "It Happened One Night." For its day, this was pretty risqué stuff:
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Post by topbilled on Nov 3, 2023 19:11:42 GMT
I purposely chose this theme, because I recently re-watched WITHOUT RESERVATIONS (critic James Agee was a huge fan of the film) and it occurred to me how similar parts of it were to IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. It's nice to see Colbert recapture the magic, sans Gable...she's having a blast with Duke and Don DeFore.
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