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Peter Warne ([[Clark Gable]]) is a hard-bitten reporter. He loses his job, but finds a ticket back in when he stumbles on to a runaway heiress, Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert). He meets her on a cross-country night bus, and threatens to blow her cover unless she gives him the exclusive story about her escape. They hate each other at first; when they realize that they'll have to share a room, they invent the "Wall of Jericho," a blanket between their two beds to keep them apart. But they eventually fall in love...

Peter Warne ([[Clark Gable]]) is a hard-bitten reporter. He loses his job, but finds a ticket back in when he stumbles on to a runaway heiress, Ellie Andrews ([[Claudette Colbert]]). He meets her on a cross-country night bus, and threatens to blow her cover unless she gives him the exclusive story about her escape. They hate each other at first; when they realize that they'll have to share a room, they invent the "Wall of Jericho," a blanket between their two beds to keep them apart. But they eventually fall in love...

This [[Romantic Comedy]] from 1934 was directed by [[Frank Capra]]. It was the first film to win all five major ~~Oscars~~ in the same year (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress & Best Screenplay - a feat only repeated twice since with ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' and ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]''), made Clark Gable a star, and let the world know that Frank Capra was a great director. Its title was the solution to the very first rebus on ''[[Concentration]]''.

This [[Romantic Comedy]] from 1934 was directed by [[Frank Capra]]. It was the first film to win all five major [[Oscar]]s in the same year (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay - a feat only repeated twice since with ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' and ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]''), made Clark Gable a star, and let the world know that Frank Capra was a great director. Its title was the solution to the very first rebus on ''[[Concentration]]''.

It's also the first [[Screwball Comedy]] — it started a whole genre of comedy films in which a straight man-style character is chased, harassed, and eventually romantically captured by a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] (or related trope).