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Robert Riskin has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1940s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by It Happened One Night.
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir. Richard Thorpe · With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton
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