Frank Capra directs Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert and Walter Connolly in this romantic comedy where an heiress goes on the run and a journalist helps her get home for the scoop.

The synoptic romcom. This has all the tropes before they were tropes. Patented the formula. Who cares? The last days of pre-code freedom fizz through this. The sexual tension / attraction between a never better Gable and Colbert is palpable from the off. Then just blossoms and blooms. There are half a dozen classic comedy set pieces. I love it.

10

Perfect Double Bill: Midnight (1939)