Daily Dialogue — May 26, 2019

Peter Warne: [on telephone] Hey, listen, monkey face. When you fired me, you fired the best newshound your filthy scandal sheet ever had. 
Gordon: You wouldn’t know a news story if it reached up and kicked you in the pants.

— It Happened One Night (1934), screen play by Robert Riskin, short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Journalist.

Trivia: It Happened One Night became the first film to perform a “clean sweep” of the top five Academy Award categories, known as the Oscar “grand slam”: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. This feat would later be duplicated by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) in 1976 and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) in 1992. However, It Happened One Night is the only one not nominated in any other category.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is a great introduction to Peter Warne’s character as we not only learn he’s a journalist, but he’s also hot-headed, a braggart… and out of a job. That sets the scene for the rest of the movie.