It Happened One Night
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Continuity mistake: When the bus is about to pull out of the station Ellie places her suitcase on the overhead rack, and in the next exterior shot we see the license plates at the front of the bus, then it cuts to a closeup and one of the plates has changed from "F8274" to "G8278." (00:08:40)

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Visible crew/equipment: At the wedding, King Westley arrives in an Autogyro. King was the pilot, so as he exits the aircraft there is no-one else in the cockpit, but when King steps onto the ground there is someone's head visible in the cockpit. (01:39:55)

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Trivia: "It Happened One Night" was the first film to win all five major Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.

Ellie Andrews: I'll stop a car, and I won't use my thumb.
Peter Warne: What're you gonna do?
Ellie Andrews: It's a system all my own.

Ellie Andrews: We'll get on a merry-go-round and never get off. Promise me we'll never get off.

Ellie Andrews: What is it that we're supposed to be doing again?
Peter Warne: Hitchhiking.
Ellie Andrews: Well you've shown me an excellent example of the hiking part. When does the hitching come in?

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