Emphasis Preaching Journal

It Happened One Night, Frank Capra's delightful film of sixty years ago, shocked audiences with Claudette Colbert's independent woman, and a brash, bare-chested Clark Gable. The shock is gone, but it is still a delightful film after all this time. It is a "modern-day classic." Another shocked person is Nicodemus. "Wait a minute," he says to Jesus one night. "How can these things that you talk of be? I know some things," he says, trying to appear humble, "but what you talk about is beyond me.