Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Malurus2000 I will soon be riding a bus of my own sometime. If Clark Gable as Peter could find a rich young lady who could fall in love with his witty, charming, eccentric and sometimes rough around the edges personality, then maybe I can nab myself a girlfriend by the end of this trip. I just hope my experience lines up more with Peter's than that of Roscoe Karns' Shapely, but I'm not much of a talker like him, so I *should* be in the clear.

Gabriel Chandra OMG... this film so hilarious, clever and sweet. It has original story and fresh idea about romantic comedy. Clark Gable really did excellent job to bring this film more live. He is so funny, clever, and comical. Everything that he is doing in this film look so natural and funny. Definitely one of Clark's best performance. He really deserve an Oscar for his performance. Chemistry between he and Claudette Colbert very delightful and cute. Just simply romantic. Bravo!!!

brodyeto The dialog is witty, the characters are delightful, and the story is timeless. The way it managed to weave together a story of conflicing interests and miscommunicated interests was so good, it became a cliché in romantic comedies, even to this day. However, unlike some other formulaic cash grabs you might see today, nothing about the misunderstanding felt forced or overly coincidental. The acting was great, and Clark Gabels performance was charming, smooth, and reluctant, akin to Bogart in Casablanca.

richspenc This is a great early road film. It is one of Gable's best after "Gone with the wind". Claudette Colbert, who is really beautiful, plays a controlled rich man's daughter who, after a bitter dispute, dives (very smooth and skillfully) off their rich yatcht, hops on a bus, and goes from Miami to New York to be with her fiancé that her super controlling dad is trying to stop her from marrying. Claudette is a grown woman, her fiancé is not a criminal or anything, he's just someone her dad just personally dislikes. So I am on Claudette's side and I feel that her dad was controlling to an unecceptable level, he was sending out detectives after her, that's just not OK considering the circumstances. Getting away from her dad's home was not illegal since she was a grown woman.Claudette meets Clark on the bus through interesting and humorous circumstances. I loved all the wit and repitour between the two. Clark's hilarious responses to the uptight bus driver saying "oh yeah?". Clark finding out the truth about Claudette and him blackmailing her to both help get her to her fiancé and to get his newspaper editor job back, cause he'll have a good story on her, and many other great and funny situations and dialogue between the two of them. The moment in the cabin when Claudette's dad's detectives were looking for her, and she and Clark put on a last minute act to fool them,them yelling at each other and then Clark telling the detectives "too bad you're not looking for a plumber's daughter!"(Claudette earlier said " I'd trade places with a plumber's daughter any day"). The character of Shipley, I completely understood Claudette's reaction, Shipley was annoying. And then Clark lying to Shiply about being a gangster to scare him away, since he threatened to butt in front of Clark to grab half the $10,000 reward of returning her to her dad. The way Shiply ran off was the first funny thing he did. Then Clark and Claudette ditch the bus while saying "when Shiply stops running, he will start thinking". I liked the night time scene next where they set up camp outside, and Claudette lying back in the hay with the moonlight shining on her face, a nice old fashioned feel it gave. I also enjoyed the hitch hiking talk between them. Clark showing her all the different thumb signals, then him not being able to get any stoppers. Then Claudette pulling her dress to her knee and the first car seeing her stops. Claudette then tells Clark "goes to show, the leg's mightier than the thumb. Clark: " why didn't you take off all your clothes? We coulda stopped 40 cars". Claudette: "I'll remember that the next time we need 40 cars". Hilarious. I'm not sure if this film was pre or post code but there were a couple sort of pre code references. Clark, while pretending to sleep, laying his hand facing up on the seat next to him when he sees Claudette coming back to sit there, Clark demonstrating to Claudette in what order he undresses as he's doing so in front of her, and his talk about "the walls of Jerihco". None of those things were anything as risky as what you have today, but there are a lot of pre code films that were considered risky by 1930s standards and not so risky today. Anyway, except for Claudette's dad's actions being too far, this film was great. And I loved the bus scene where everybody is singing to " Man on flying trapeze", that scene really reminded me of this film being an older, more simple time.