Made shortly before the MPAA began enforcing the 1930 production code, It Happened One Night is a film fueled by spitfire dialogue and the sexual tension between its two leads. While known by many solely for the scene where Claudette Colbert famously hitches a ride by pulling up her skirt, other displays of sexuality between Colbert and Clark Gable are treated with slightly more restraint – Gable’s Peter showing Colbert’s Ellie how a man undresses, the pair nearly literally taking a roll in the hay, and the symbolic “walls of Jericho” tumbling down during the final shot. Frank Capra has
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