Glazed Cinema

It Happened One Night

Brian Kinney Season 4 Episode 7

Directed by Frank Capra and released in 1934, It Happened One Night is widely considered the blueprint of the romantic comedy genre in film. Following a newspaper man helping the runaway daughter of a millionaire mogul trying to reach her husband it's got all the usual ingredients of a great rom-com. Inspiring an entire genre of filmmaking it has been imitated and borrowed from, but never beaten, inspiring and entertaining generations for ninety years and counting.