(1934, Dir. Frank Capra)
In Short: Spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) runs away from her business tycoon father who disapproves of her marriage to a famous aviator. Struggling to navigate her way to New York from Florida, Ellie is reluctantly helped by journalist Peter Warne (Clark Gable) who wants to get an exclusive scoop on Ellie. This is the OG reluctant roadtrip rom-com. I can see every trope of the Triple R (as I have just christened it) stemming from this one film, from the pairing of the naive girl with a streetwise guy, to sharing a hotel room and having luggage stolen and various weird locals and pretending to be married...I could go on. This is the birth of a genre. That's not what it was originally made to be, though. Capra wasn't trying to create a category of films. Rather, he was trying to tell a story about two very different people going through bizarre circumstances together and examining what happens to them. A neat idea, no? This was cute! Like I said, I've seen this movie before time and time again (the more I think about it, the more I realize that 2010's Leap Year has exactly the same plot, and that is a Bad Movie). Capra of course does it better, because he did it first. Colbert and Gable are charming and have great chemistry, and despite the fact that I knew exactly what was going to happen, it still kept me watching, and I loved the Walls of Jericho theme. 9/10 carrots.
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