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"It Happened One Night"

You notice the old clothes and cars, etc. for about the first two minutes. Then the movie grabs you by the short hairs and won't let go! It's a splendid film whose magnificence still shines some 70 years after its release.

It's a Frank Capra film and bears all his trademarks. I'm a Capra fan and feel that most of his films are well worth watching. Sure, a few of his films can get more than a bit corny, but most are really fine films. But "It Happened One Night" is, IMHO, his masterpiece and one of the truly great films in the history of American cinema.

True art may look dated to some but it never gets old.

As for Chaplin/Keaton...well, I find Keaton's films more appealing than Chaplin's. Efforts like "Sherlock, Jr." are wonderful. His "The General" is one of the all-time great silents and is on my list of the greatest films ever made. I find Chaplin less appealing, but maybe that is because Keaton's character was so damned appealing that anyone else suffers by comparison. Certainly there are some really great Chaplin films - many, in fact.

Are they dated? Sure. I don't really care.

I would rather watch a great film by Preston Sturges, George Stevens, Billy Wilder, Hitchcock, Welles, Lang, John Ford, Elia Kazan, Capra, Cukor, Zinneman, et al., than most new movies. It is true that "they don't make 'em like that any more."

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