With: Clark Gable (Peter), Claudette Colbert (Ellie), Walter Connolly  (Alexander Andrews), Roscoe Karns (Shapely), Jameson Thomas (King Westley), Alan Hale (Danker), Arthur Hoyt (Zeke), Blanche Friderici (Zeke's wife), Charles C Wilson (Gordon)
Director/Producer: Frank Capra
Production co: Columbia
Screenplay: Robert Riskin
Photography: Joseph Walker
Editor: Gene Havlick
Music dir: Louis Silvers
REVIEWS

“As buoyant and elegant as bubbles in a glass of champagne, Frank Capra's sublime 1934 comedy, written by long-time collaborator Robert Riskin, survives triumphantly because of its wit, charm, romantic idealism and its shrewd sketch of married life. Clark Gable plays roguish newspaperman Peter Warne; he encounters Ellie Andrews, played by Claudette Colbert, on a night bus to New York. She's a haughty, gamine socialite on the run from her domineering millionaire father and, recognising her from a press photo, Warne offers a deal: he won't turn her in, if she will give him the exclusive story. So they travel together, sharing motel rooms by impersonating a quarrelling married couple – and both are secretly awed by how easily this imposture comes to them, and how miraculous is their feisty chemistry. Warne decorously hangs a blanket between their twin beds: a “Wall Of Jericho” which no trumpet-blast will ever bring down – and that wall symbolises the erotic tension. Gable was 33, not yet the alpha-male of Gone With the Wind, thinner, younger, spindlier; Claudette Colbert's doe-eyed heiress has something of a wary, yet skittish woodland creature, as she disapprovingly peeps round the blanket. A great pleasure.”
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

"Among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.”
— Criterion
SPECIAL PUBLIC SCREENING
 
Auckland                                  
Monday 5 March, 6.30pm