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UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
January 22 - January 22, 2014Info
- http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
- (510) 642-0808
This here’s a screwball comedy that throws some real curves: most particularly a leggy Claudette Colbert and a shirtless Clark Gable. Cheeky Colbert plays a runaway heiress on a bus north to find her fiancé; instead she finds fellow traveler Gable, an ace reporter with everything but an assignment. The repartee is faster than a Greyhound on the interstate and the sexy innuendos barely outraced the censors, but Frank Capra’s Depression-era romp has no shortage of employable humor. Watch for the “Walls of Jericho” gag acknowledging that sheets happen. Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture—that’s no laughing matter.—Steve Seid
• Written by Robert Riskin, based on the story “Night Bus” by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Photographed by Joseph Walker. With Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns. (105 mins, B&W, DCP, From Sony Pictures)