It Happened One Night It Happened One Night It Happened One Night is a 1934 pre-Code American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The plot is based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. Classified as a "pre-Code" production, the film is among the last romantic comedies created before the MPAA began rigidly enforcing the
It Happened 'That Night' casket is empty, and her body's gone. Spencer checks Emily's phone and discover someone used Spencer's phone to call Emily, which means that someone broke into the Hastings residence to use the phone and incriminate them. Emily isn't able to remember anything from the previous hours, so the girls bury the shovel Emily was holding and create an alibi to put them kilometers away from the crime scene. The morning after, Spencer's mother Veronica calls them commenting about Alison's grave being dug up, and Spencer lies to her, saying they were at the lake house during all night. Afterwards, Aria