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Best Direction: Frank Capra for Lady for a Day, George Cukor for Little Women, Frank Lloyd for Cavalcade...
Instead of attempting a journalistic study of bus-travel, regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adams' story, fused the two. When Gable and Colbert hail a Ford for a lift the driver sings them a tuneless paean on the pleasures of hitchhiking. When they stop for gas, he tries to drive off with their battered suitcase. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away...
...although it is an intelligent, production. It suffers from lethargic pace, a lack of action elsewhere than in highly atmospheric battle-scenes. Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori, a sloe-eyed Japanese girl whom Director Frank Capra discovered in a Los Angeles curio shop, hired for the part of the ex-mistress...
...there but gallantly says nothing about it, even when suspected of having assisted in a robbery of his department which occurred at the time of his call. Finally he is exonerated but not until after the big scene, a scene which is pertinent, exciting and brilliantly directed by Frank Capra. A bank telephone operator tells another operator about the robbery. A third operator tells someone else. Presently shop-keepers are whispering the details to their customers. One depositor warns another: the amount of the peculations jumps from $100,000 to $500,000, then to $5,000,000. An angry, despairing...
Andover presents formidable opposition to Coach Lewis's first year wrestlers. Last week they shut out the Tufts Freshman team by a score of 24 to 0, gaining four falls. Capra and Flarsheim are the mainstays of the schoolboys, the latter having pinned his man to the mat in 63 seconds in the 125 pound match...