Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1934
Country: USA
Runtime: 105
Rating: 5.5 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Frank Capra
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies !

Together for the first time!

Writing by: Samuel Hopkins Adams - (story "Night Bus")
Robert Riskin - (screenplay)

Produced by: Frank Capra - producer
Harry Cohn - executive producer
Harry Cohn - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Clark Gable - Peter Warne
Claudette Colbert - Ellie Andrews
Walter Connolly - Alexander Andrews
Roscoe Karns - Oscar Shapeley
Jameson Thomas - King Westley
Alan Hale - Danker
Arthur Hoyt - Zeke
Blanche Friderici - Zekes wife
Charles C. Wilson - Joe Gordon
Ernie Adams - The bag thief (uncredited)
Irving Bacon - Gas station attendant (uncredited)

Music: Howard Jackson Louis Silvers
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Plot Outline: A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man whos actually a reporter looking for a story. But then he falls for her...
Plot: Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her fathers yacht and out of Kings clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. Actually, Warne doesnt give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or hell blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
"May u live 2 see the dawn"

Goofs: We know about 9 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: In the exterior view of the bus running off the road (after the "flying trapeze" song), the driver is a different person and the curtain that is behind him in the interior view is missing.

Trivia: There are 16 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Myrna Loy turned down the role of Ellie Andrews because a recent film set on a bus had failed, and she didnt think that this one would succeed.
• At the Miami bus station, friends of Peter Warne (Clark Gable) refer to him as "the King" - Gables nickname in real life.
• Friz Frelengs unpublished memoirs mention that this was one of his favorite films, and that it contains at least three things upon which the character "Bugs Bunny" was based: - The character Oscar Shapelys (Roscoe Karns) personality - The manner in which Peter Warne (Clark Gable) was eating carrots and talking quickly at the same time - An imaginary character mentioned once to frighten Oscar Shapely named "Bugs Dooley." Other mentions of "Looney Tunes" characters from the film include Alexander Andrews (Walter Connolly) and King Westley (Jameson Thomas) being the inspirations for Yosemite Sam and Pep? LePew, respectively.

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