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...Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, (Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert), Saturday...
...Frank Capra is best known for his political films embodying the consciousness of the left wing of the New Deal in the 30s and 40s, films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and State of the Union. But Capra also made comedies and while It Happened One Night Colbert is the spoiled daughter of an over-protective tycoon and Clark Gable is the down on-his-luck newpaperman who undertakes to smuggle her from Florida to New York so that she can rejoin her husband, but ends up falling in love with her. Gable shocked a lot of people when...
...Capra's State of the Union (1948) is in no sense part of the film noir style, thought it too deals with political corruption. The uneasy balance Capra strikes between his exposure of corruption and his reaffirmation is very much the same as that of his films of the 30s, like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and Meet John Doe. While State of the Union is politically the least sophisticated of Capra's serious films, it is also emotionally the most exhilarating. Hepburn gives the best performance of her career as the wife of Spencer Tracy, presidential candidate, who wins...
Performance at 4, 7:55; Don't Look Now at 5:55 and 9:50; Sunday-Tuesday: Frank Capra's State of the Union at 4 and 7:50; Howard Hawk's His Girl Friday...
...Fight (Capra), Tuesday...