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First Road Trip Movie?

posted 12 years ago by global_global
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I know they were heading to CA for good, and there had been many other films about traveling.

But was this one of the first road trip films, where the characters get into an automobile a drive on the infrastructure and that adds meaning to the film itself? At least the 1st half of the movie.

Are there any earlier films about being on the road as part of the experience? And by road, I'm talking automobiles, not horse-and-buggies or camels, or what have you.

[–] jimpemmas 12 years ago

It Happened one night (1934). Also considered the first screwball comedy.

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[–] global_global 12 years ago

Thanks.

I'll have to check it out.

So we can say G of W was one of the first road trip movies.

[–] vinidici 11 years ago

Jimpemmas: It Happened One Night was exactly what my response was going to be, but you got there first!

Okay folks, show's over, nothing to see here!

[–] vinidici 11 years ago

AHA! I KNEW that, SOMEWHERE in the back of my mind, I could remember seeing a "road trip" movie that predates both The Grapes of Wrath AND It Happened One Night: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024358/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_9

Okay folks, show's over, nothing to see here!