30 Best Movies Like Casablanca Every Fan Needs to Watch
Casablanca is one of the most iconic movies of all time. Still, it is an old cult movie, which means you have probably watched it a lot of times. If that is the case, you are maybe looking for more movies like Casablanca. If that is the case, we have you covered.
In this article, we are bringing you the best movies like Casablanca you can watch. Action scenes that intervene with timeless love stories, quotes and music. These are the movies you have to check out.
So, without further ado, find below your next watch just like Casablanca.
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
In 1936, General of the Red Army Yevgraf Zhivago (A. Guinness) encounters a young worker whom he thinks may be the daughter of his half-brother Yuri Zhivago (O. Sharif) and his great-love Lara (J. Christie). He tells her about Juri’s life in case she remembers some detail and thus confirms that she is his daughter. As a boy, at the end of the 19th century, Jurij has left an orphan raised by the rich Moscow family of Alexander Gromek (R. Richardson). He graduated in medicine, and along with his studies, he established himself as a very gifted poet.
He will soon marry Gromek’s beautiful daughter Tonja (G. Chaplin). At the same time, seventeen-year-old Lara lives with her widowed mother in Moscow before the First World War. The mother’s lover is the well-to-do Komarovsky (R. Steiger), a cynic who excels in all regimes. He seduces Lara, who is engaged to the fanatical leftist Pasha (T. Courtnay).
Pasha is already deep in pre-revolutionary activities. When Lara’s mother tries to kill herself, Dr. Zhivago meets her and realizes that she is Komarovsky’s lover. After Komarovsky calls her a whore, she tries to shoot him in front of the Moscow aristocracy. Zhivago gave Komarovski first aid. He knows Komarovski, because he was the executor of his parents’ will.
Zhivago participated in the First World War as a doctor, and Lara was a nurse. He is married to Tonja, she is married to Pasha. Nevertheless, they fall passionately in love with each other. Dramatic historical events since then will separate and unite them, and their love will be just as great. In 1917, the October Revolution will break out and its vortex will determine the future life of all the characters in this magnificent drama.
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
In 1539, the Knights of Malta intended to present the King of Spain, Charles V, with a statuette of a golden falcon decorated with rare jewels. But the pirates intercepted the galley and the Maltese Falcon seems to have disappeared forever… San Francisco, four centuries later. Miss Wonderly from New York comes to the Spade & Archer detective agency, jointly run by Sam Spade and Miles Archer, asking for help in finding her missing sister.
Although they both doubt her story, they accept the job, happy that their new client is paying in cash. When Archer is about to be killed, Spade realizes that he’s involved in a dangerous business where he learns that Miss Wonderly’s real name is Brigid O’Shaughnessey. The investigation leads him to two swindlers, Joel Cair (P. Lorre) and Kasper Gutman (S. Greenstreet), who, like Brigid, are looking for the statuette of the Maltese Falcon…
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Don Lockward (G. Kelly) and Lina Lamant (J. Hagen) are the most famous acting love couple in silent films. The audience adores them, and Lina is also convinced that they are truly happy in love. In reality, Don falls in love with modest dancer Kathy Selden (D. Reynolds), who on the first night dangerously shakes his confidence with her comments about his acting.
When sound films appear, the acting couple is forced to change their acting style and take speech lessons. Don copes much better than Lina, who with her extremely squeaky voice, bad accent and spoiled behavior simply no longer fits the new requirements. Don’s friend Cosmo Brown (D. O’Connor) comes up with the idea of making a musical instead of a regular movie, in which Lina will lend her voice to Kathy. The film is a huge success, but it turns out that its real star is Kathy. A spectacular musical, an absolute classic, one of the most famous films of that genre.
It features great musical numbers, exceptional dancers and choreography, and a nostalgic story. The film was created because the MGM company wanted to use already existing songs and based on them the story was written. It is interesting that actually Jean Hagen, who plays Lina, had a good voice, not Debbie Reynolds, so in reality, Hagen even doubled Reynolds’s singing voice during filming.
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The American port of Pearl Harbor during the summer of 1941. Among the soldiers in training is Robert Lee Prewitt (M. Clift), a boxer who once blinded an opponent in the ring, which is why he does not want to join the military boxing team. With that decision, he provokes Capt. Dana Holmes (P. Ober), who orders the other soldiers to make Prewitt’s training and life in the barracks as difficult as possible.
Escaping from the difficult everyday life, in which he also clashes with the rude Sergeant Judson (E. Borgnine), Prewitt will soon begin to get close to the attractive bar entertainer Alma “Lorene” Burke (D. Reed). At the same time, Holmes’s sensitive wife Karen (D. Kerr) begins a love affair with the striking Sergeant Milton Warden (B. Lancaster). Passionate love affairs and strained relations between soldiers and officers will eventually lead to tragedy…
My Fair Lady (1964)
In old London lives Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an arrogant and conceited professor of phonetics who believes that the accent and tone of one’s voice are the main determinants of success in society.
He brags about his knowledge and abilities to Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), also an expert in phonetics, whom he assures that he could teach any woman the speech of a noblewoman. To prove his point, he chooses a young flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) with a strong accent, whom he intends to make into a real lady…
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Chicago 1929. Gangsters, street shootings, illegal taprooms. Two eternally poor musicians, Joe (T. Curtis) and Jerry (J. Lemmon), play in one such taproom. Joe plays the saxophone, Jerry the double bass. The owner is the mobster Spats Colombo (G. Raft). After the taproom raid, Jerry and Joe barely escape, hurrying to the music agency to find a new job. But only two musicians are wanted for a women’s orchestra traveling to Florida.
Disappointed, they take a trip to the snowdrift and take shelter in a garage. The gangsters who betrayed Colombo last night are sitting there. Colombo and his men rush in and kill everyone present, except for two musicians who manage to escape just as Colombo was about to liquidate them. Ingenious Joe comes up with the ingenious idea of dressing up as a woman and signing up for a women’s orchestra. Jerry is now called Daphne (J. Lemmon) and Joe is Josephine (T. Curtis).
Joe immediately falls in love with the beautiful singer in the orchestra, Sugar Kane (M. Monroe). But if their life is good, they must not show that they are men. The old rich man Osgood Fielding (J.E. Brown) will fall in love with Daphne (Jerry) in Florida, and to make things worse, gangsters led by Spats Colombo will soon hold a “convention” in Miami…
Citizen Kane (1941)
The news that the famous tycoon Charles Foster Kane (O. Welles) has died in his luxurious mansion in Xanadu in Florida has extremely excited the American public and the media. After learning that the deceased died alone and that his last words were “a rosebud”, Mr. Rawlston (P. Van Zandt), the editor of a New York newspaper, sends his reporters to the scene with the task of finding out as many spicy details as possible about Kane’s life.
Among them is Jerry Thompson (W. Alland), a reporter who decides to talk to the closest friends and associates of a man who some media posthumously declared a communist and even a fascist. Thompson decides to talk to Kane’s manager Bernstein (E. Sloane), second wife Susan Alexander (D. Comingore), Kane’s guardian and banker Walter Parks Thatcher (G. Coulouris), best friend and colleague Jedediah Leland (J. Cotten) and gradually puts together a picture of the deceased. And Kane was anything but a simple man…
The Petrified Forest (1936)
The film is set in northern Arizona, in an area called the Petrified Forest. Alan Squier, hitchhiking, wanders into a roadside restaurant. It’s run by Jason Maple (Porter Hall), his daughter Gabby, and her grandfather (Charley Grapewin), “the old man that Billy the Kid missed.”
Gabby’s mother, who fell in love with a young handsome American in military uniform, married Gabby’s father. But after that, she started living in a remote desert with a “numb man”. She moved back to France when Gabby was a child. Now he sends her poetry, while her daughter dreams of visiting Bourges one day when she studies art. Gabby shows Alan her pictures and reads him his favorite poem by Francois Villon. To Alan Squier, who is considered a failed writer, Gabby represents the future and finds her fervor and optimism touching and refreshing.
After Duke Mantee, the “world famous killer”, and his gang show up and take everyone hostage, Alan makes a deal with him. While Gabby was out of the room, Alan signs the insurance policy on her and tells Duke to shoot him. “It doesn’t matter to you anyway, Duke. After all, if they catch you, I can only hang you once…” He says to another man: “I’m worth nothing to her alive. I can buy her the highest cathedral, and golden vineyards, and dancing in the streets dead.”
The Sound of Music (1965)
The “golden” thirties of the 20th century in Austria are coming to an end. The wounds of World War I have only just healed, and the threat of German occupation has already loomed over the country. However, the family of the wealthy retired officer of the former Imperial Navy, Captain von Trapp (C. Plummer), is plagued by other problems.
After the untimely death of his wife, a former professional soldier tries to raise his seven children aged 4 to 16 in an inappropriate way – by introducing military discipline. It is clear that the small “unit” is more cunning than its “commander-in-chief” and his lieutenants, the governesses who “fall” one after the other. Until one day the beautiful Maria (J. Andrews), a novice from the nearby monastery, appears in that thankless role, who threatens the strict rules of the order with her joy of life, so the superior (P. Wood) happily sends her to the von Trapp “purgatory”.
Her stay in the family was supposed to be temporary, because with her father’s wedding to the vain but outwardly brilliant Baroness Elsa (E. Parker), the children should soon have a new “mother”. However, Maria’s beautiful and selfless nature leaves no one indifferent in the castle and the story moves in an unplanned direction. The Nazis strictly adhere to the plans and Austria becomes a German province. Von Trapp, as an honorable soldier and patriot, cannot accept such a thing.
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Spoiled and neurotic, southerner Blanche DuBois, trying to escape her past that includes heavy alcohol addiction, the loss of an inherited plantation, and the seduction of a minor, goes to her sister Stella Kowalski. Soon he will find himself in conflict with Stella’s husband, Stanley Kowalski, a vulgar and dirty member of the new industrial-immigrant generation.
In other words, a raw man who drinks and smokes excessively and behaves like the master of the house. Stanely, who is actually sensual on the inside, will forcefully confront Blanche with her problems from the past, which will result in her having a nervous breakdown.
The Great Escape (1963)
The Second World War is raging on all fronts and there are more and more prisoners of war. Therefore, the authorities of the Third Reich decided to move the Allied prisoners who have caused them the most problems so far to the heavily guarded prison Stalag Luft III under the command of Colonel Von Luger (H. Messemer).
In it, the Nazis intend to keep under control a group of Allied officers who have tried to escape several times. Among them are American Captain Virgil ‘The Cooler King’ Hilts (S. McQueen), his compatriot Lieutenant Bob Anthony ‘The Scrounger’ Hendley (J. Garner), Polish Lieutenant Velinski (C. Bronson), Airman Louis ‘The Manufacturer’ Sedgwick (J. Coburn), and the British Roger ‘Big X’ Bartlett (R. Attenborough) who proposes to his colleagues an ambitious plan to escape from prison. This is the construction of as many as three tunnels through which dozens of allied soldiers could escape.
The Apartment (1960)
C. C. Baxter, aka Bud, is an officer of the New York insurance company Consolidate Life, which employs more than 31,000 people. To the joy of the bosses, Bud is very accommodating and regularly rents out his apartment to them for meetings with their lovers. Modest and well-intentioned, he hopes to be promoted, and his neighbor Dr. Dreyfuss thinks that Bud is a great seducer who changes women every night.
Bud, on the other hand, wishes to be noticed by his beautiful colleague Fran, the lover of his boss Jeff D. Sheldrake, who is madly in love with the boss. When the naive girl learns that Jeff does not intend to leave his wife for her, she decides to kill herself. But Bud saves her at the right moment.
High Sierra (1941)
Roy Earle (H. Bogart), a criminal who was a member of John Dillinger’s infamous gang, is released from prison. He returns to the fragmented remains of his former company and prepares for a new venture.
In the meantime, he meets the lame girl Velma (J. Leslie), who attracts him with her simplicity and thus distances him from his devoted Marie (I. Lupino).
Earle secures surgery on Velma’s leg, then sets off on another bank robbery.
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Young Jean (Priscilla Lane) sings in Eddie’s bar, with whom he immediately falls in love, wounding Panama, who is loyal to him. Eddie’s business is developing more and more, but the self-interested George starts working behind his back. Jeane falls in love with Lloyd…
One of the greatest directors of the classic period of American cinema, Raoul Walsh (High Sierra, Colorado Territory, White Glow, They Died in Their Boots, Target: Burma) shot the first of his anthology crime films in 1939 – “The Roaring Twenties”. It is a production that screenwriter Mark Hellinger wrote based on true events that he himself witnessed, and which is dramaturgically based on the classic model about the rise and fall of an exceptional gangster.
Walsh brilliantly shaped that template with the support of an outstanding cast, led by the legendary James Cagney, and with the performance of another legend, at that time just on his way to fame – Humprey Bogart, as well as the excellent Gladys George.
The African Queen (1951)
We follow Samuel and Rose Sayer, brother and sister, British missionaries who travel to a village in German East Africa in 1914. Their mail and provisions are transported by the cruel Canadian ship captain Charlie Allnut on the African Queen. Although Charlie warns the naive missionaries of the dangers that await them, they still decide to continue their journey…..
West Side Story (1961)
This adaptation of the Broadway play opens with an aerial view of Manhattan. We meet two rival street gangs: the Jets, second-generation American teenagers, and the Sharks, Puerto Rican immigrants. When the war between the Jets and the Sharks reaches its peak, the leader of the Jets, Riff (Russ Tamblyn), decides to challenge the Sharks to one last fight.
He agrees to meet with the leader of the Sharks, Bernard (George Chakiris), at a war council to be held at the school dance. To make it more convincing, Riff brings along his old friend Tony (Richard Beymer). But Tony fell in love with Barnard’s sister Maria (Natalie Wood). Their love story, like that of Romeo and Juliet, will end tragically.
Dark Victory (1939)
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught.
After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
Double Indemnity (1944)
Walter Neff (F. MacMurray), an experienced insurance salesman, meets his client’s very seductive wife Phyllis Dietrichson (B. Stanwyck) and begins an affair with her. Soon Phyllis suggests that they kill her husband and get the insurance money…
The Big Sleep (1946)
General Sternwood (C. Waldron) is an old and sick rich man who has two young and beautiful daughters: the older Vivian (L. Bacall) and the younger Carmen (M. Vickers). Sternwood hires private detective Philip Marlowe (H. Bogart) to solve a problem regarding Carmen. She allegedly incurred a rather large card debt and now some owner of an antique shop is demanding that the debt be paid. Both Sternwood and Marlowe are convinced that this is blackmail. Before leaving the Sternwood house, Marlowe is called by Vivian to find out what his father wants from him.
From the first meeting, it is clear that they like each other. In the antique shop, Marlowe fails to reach the blackmailer, because he is supposedly not there. A cute girl in a nearby bookstore describes to Marlow what the wanted bookseller looks like. When he shows up, Marlowe starts following him in the car. The bookseller stopped in front of a secluded house and entered it. A little later, Carmen Sternwood arrives at the cottage.
After some time, a shout and a shot are heard from the house. Marlowe goes inside to find a drugged Carmen and a shot antique dealer next to her. There was also a camera hidden there, with which the murdered blackmailer probably secretly took pictures of his victims. There is no film in the camera. Marlowe drives Carmen home and Vivian helps him put her to bed. This is the beginning of a very unusual case for Philip Marlowe.
In a Lonely Place (1950)
After one evening in the company of his agent Mel Lipman (A. Smith) in a nightclub, he clashes with a grumpy young actor, the screenwriter Dixon Steele (H. Bogart) escorts the young Mildred Atkinson (M. Stewart) to his apartment. While Dixon, prone to getting into trouble, remembers better days, because he hasn’t written a good screenplay in a long time, Mildred is an ambitious girl who has an idea for a movie story.
However, Mildred will be killed the same night after leaving his apartment, and when it is Dixon who is suspected of the murder, the key alibi will be provided by the neighbor Laurel Gray (G. Grahame). The investigation is led by Dixon’s old acquaintance, detective Brub Nicolai (F. Lovejoy), and the screenwriter begins to get closer to Laurel, who inspires him to write…
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The troubled young man Jim Stark moved with his parents to a Californian town where he starts a new school, because he was expelled from the previous one. He meets an attractive and also problematic girl, Judy, and a slightly younger boy, Plato, from a wealthy family, who longs for understanding and human warmth.
On the very first day at school, Jim clashes with Judy’s boyfriend Buzz, the leader of the local gang, and the two young men arrange a showdown that same night. They race their cars toward the precipice, and the driver who jumps out first is a coward.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Little girl Dorothy Gale (J. Garland) grows up without her parents on the farm of her Uncle Henry (C. Grapewin) and Aunt Em (C. Blandick) in Kansas. Although she spends a happy childhood with the people who love her the most in the world, Dorothy is also plagued by problems. Namely, her faithful dog Toto is targeted by Miss Gulch (M . Hamilton), who owns half the district. When she decides to take Toto, because he bit her, Dorothy runs away with her pet, but finds herself in the middle of a tornado and loses consciousness…
He wakes up in an unknown land and realizes that without a spell he will not be able to return home. Dorothy’s house, raised in a tornado, killed the Wicked Witch of the East, who was abusing the Chewbacca people, and her sister, the Wicked Witch of the West (M. Hamilton), decides to take revenge on her. To help her, Glinda the Good Witch of the North (B. Burke) directs her to the most powerful resident of the land of Oz, the enigmatic wizard (F. Morgan) who lives in the Emerald City.
On the way to the wizard, Dorothy meets the Scarecrow (R. Bolger) who wants to gain wisdom from the magician, the Tin Man (J. Haley) who fervently wants a heart, and the Scary Lion (B. Lahr) who hopes for courage. However, the high-spirited company is closely watched by the Wicked Witch of the West with her army of flying monkeys. Dorothy’s only protection is the wondrous red shoes of the Wicked Witch of the East, given to her by Glinda…
Sabrina (1954)
Sabrina (A. Hepburn) is the daughter of a driver of the rich Larrabee family, who has been in love with David (W. Holden), the younger Larrabee son, all her life. David, although a good-natured and somewhat spoiled fan of the opposite sex, ignores Sabrina, considering her a naive child. Sabrina soon goes to Paris to study as a top chef, from which she returns after two years as a beautiful woman.
Hardly recognizing her, David takes an interest in her, even though he is about to marry a rich heiress. This scares his brother Linus (H. Bogart), an ambitious businessman, who sees the failure of his wedding as the failure of his lucrative company…
Brief Encounter (1945)
During 1945, shortly after the end of the Second World War, at the British Milford railway station, the sensitive Laura Jesson (C. Johnson) one day meets the striking Alex Harvey (T. Howard). Laura is a shy and family-oriented woman married to good-natured and uninteresting Fred Jesson (C. Raymond), with whom she has a son Bobbie (R. Thomas) and a daughter Margaret (H. Vincent).
Alec, too, is married to that family and a devoted man who, although he is also aware of the monotony of his married life, is not looking for any adventures outside of marriage. From their first meeting in the waiting room, after Alex gently removes the dirt from her eye, both Laura and he becomes aware of a strong mutual attraction.
During the following shopping trips, Laura will continue to meet Alex at the Milford station, and with each new meeting, their friendship will develop in the direction of romance. And when the meetings become regular every Thursday afternoon, despite the mutual awareness that they must not destroy their families, the first kisses will fall between Laura and Alex.
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
While it is snowing in the picturesque provincial town of Bedford Falls on Christmas Eve, desperate George Bailey (J. Stewart), burdened with heavy financial debts and under the influence of alcohol, decides to commit suicide by jumping into the river. Wanting to save him, St. Joseph decides to send gentle Clarence (H. Travers), an angel of the second grade, to help George, who could be helped by this very “case” to advance and gain wings. And George Bailey (R. J. Anderson) was a good-natured and playful kid as a boy, always ready to help his mother (B. Bondi), brother Harry (T. Karns) and father Peter (S. S. Hinds).
Moreover, one winter, saving Harry who had fallen into an ice-bound lake, George became deaf in one ear, and at the last moment he prevented pharmacist Emil Gower (H.B. Warner) from carelessly concealing the death of a boy with the wrong medicine. Even then, while George was dreaming of how one day he would travel the whole world, a little girl Mary Hatch (J. Gale) fell in love with him. At the same time, George’s father was given the most trouble by Mr. Henry F. Potter (L. Barrymore), the owner of the largest investment and money firm in the city, who constantly wanted to destroy his competitor.
However, when George became a young man, his life plans were disrupted by a major economic crisis, then the sudden death of his father, and finally the beginning of World War II. Instead of going to college and traveling the world, George will stay in Bedford Falls, where with the help of his uncle Billy (T. Mitchell), he will take over the management of his father’s company and become a successful businessman. And when Mary Hatch (D. Reed) returns from studies, their relationship will end in marriage, in which they will have four children. But Mr. Potter will continue to constantly plant clips on George….
The English Patient (1996)
The film is set in World War II and describes a badly burned man, known only as “The English Patient”, who is cared for by Hana (Juliette Binoche), a French-Canadian nurse in a ruined Italian villa. The patient does not want to reveal his personal information, but through a series of flashbacks, viewers can learn about his past.
It is slowly revealed that he is actually a Hungarian geographer, Count László de Almásy (Ralph Fiennes), who drew a map of the Sahara and whose affair with a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) led him to his current situation. As the patient remembers more and more, David Caravaggio, a Canadian thief/intelligencer, arrives at the monastery. Caravaggio lost his thumbs while being interrogated by German forces in Africa, and he gradually discovers that the patient’s actions led to his torture.
In addition to the patient’s story, the film also tells about Hana and her romance with Kip, an Indian miner in the British army. Due to various events in her past, Hana believes anyone who gets close to her could die, and Kip’s position as a military pyrotechnician makes their relationship fraught with tension.
Spartacus (1960)
Spartacus (K. Douglas) is the legendary leader of the slave uprising that took place in 73 BC. Spartacus is originally a Thracian, who in 80 B.C. is captured by the Roman legions and then sold as a slave. He escaped from slavery, joined the Thracian troops again, but was caught and sold as a gladiator in Capua, where, due to his courage, strength and exceptional dexterity, he was freed and in 73 BC. Kr. became a gladiator teacher.
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In the same year, he escaped with a group of slaves and started a fight against the Roman army to bring most of the gladiators back to Gaul, the country where most of them were born. He died in 71 BC. in the decisive battle in Lucania.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Controversial soldier and adventurer T. E. Lawrence (P. O’Toole) dies in a car accident while riding a motorcycle. After the commemoration, there is a conversation about the deceased among those present. The key period of the deceased’s life was the First World War. At that time, Lawrence was a lieutenant in the British army in Cairo. A lover of Arab culture, Lawrence had a reputation as a headstrong and disobedient officer.
However, because of his knowledge of Arab culture, Lawrence is sent on a mission to investigate the chances of Arab Prince Faisal (A. Guinness) in a rebellion against the Turks. Extremely charming and resourceful, Lawrence becomes an important factor in the events that will change history…
Gone with the Wind (1939)
It’s the time before the Civil War, in the American South lives Scarlett O’Hara (V. Leigh), a spoiled and vain girl, one of the three daughters of plantation owner Gerald O’Hara (T. Mitchell), who teaches her about the importance of land. Scarlett is gorgeous, beautiful and smart, and has many suitors, but she is secretly in love with Ashley Wilkes (L. Howard), who intends to marry the modest and lovely Melanie Hamilton (O. De Havilland).
In protest and in defiance of Ashley’s decision, when many young men leave for the battlefield, Scarlett hastily decides to marry Melanie’s brother Charles. However, the young husband does not even survive the first battle, and Scarlett almost immediately becomes a widow. As she does not grieve at all, she soon catches the eye of the famous seducer Rhett Butler (C. Gable), a cynical and intelligent man who, despite her rejection, will not just give up.
Years pass. The maelstrom of war also dragged Scarlett into its events, and she will completely change from a manipulative, superficial, conceited brat and learn to care for others as well. Namely, she will help the pregnant Melanie during childbirth, take care of her property after her mother’s death, and live and feed many others from persistent effort and work on her own land, which her father taught her to respect and love. When Ashley returns from the battlefield after the war, her happiness will not end. But Ashley still loves Melanie…
It Happened One Night (1934)
Spoiled Ellen “Ellie” Andrews (C. Colbert) is a young and slightly conceited rich woman, the daughter of strict millionaire Alexander Andrews (W. Connolly) who, against her father’s will, wants to marry dowry hunter and playboy “King” Westley (J. Thomas). When she escapes from a yacht in Miami, where her father is holding her “prisoner” for her own good, Ellie hops on a bus and takes a night drive to New York where Westley is waiting for her.
During the trip, she is sat next to her by a somewhat rude and irresponsible, but honest and kind-hearted unemployed journalist Peter Warne (C. Gable), an ambitious guy who wants to get back to work after a drinking problem. When he learns from the newspaper that his companion is a runaway heiress, Peter suggests Ellie let him write an exclusive report on the event, and he will help her in return. Although they can hardly stand each other at first, the relationship between Ellie and Peter will gradually begin to change.
