Remember the Night

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Harry R Feb 2, 2019 Nice Christmas story with beautiful woman and actress in the lead Barbara Stanwyck. Although it's not that funny as it could have been, it still has warmth and heart, and that is all that is needed in a good Christmas movie to heighten the holiday spirit. See more

Feb 2, 2019 The best romance movie ever made!

Leia S Dec 29, 2018 Great cast and a movie I remember from childhood. And it is still good==Preston Sturgess could really write a great screenplay! See more

Luke W Dec 22, 2018 Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. But he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail, and ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background) they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?Barbra Stanwyck is Fabulous as always . See more

Luke S Dec 30, 2017 Enjoyable film even though its built on a thin, implausible storyline of a good hearted Assistant DA - MacMurray - bailing a snappy shoplifter - Stanwyck - out of jail and then taking her on a road trip home to Indiana! Fred and Barbara really click with able support from the rest of the cast. Does end on a rather off note, but given that the film is from 1940, the plot hole the movie digs is impossible to get out of any other way. See more

Ron S Dec 23, 2017 The last of Preston Sturges' scripts that he didn't direct himself -- Mitchell Leisen took the reins, as he did for the funnier Easy Living (1937). Here, Fred MacMurray works as a prosecutor for the district attorney in New York and Barbara Stanwyck, charged with shoplifting, is his last trial before Christmas. When he asks the judge for a continuance until after the holidays, he realises that this will leave Stanwyck in prison until the new year and arranges with the bailsbondman to have her released. Little does he know that she would end up with him as he travels back to Indiana to see his mother (Beulah Bondi). Of course, they fall in love. But what can be done? She is destined to go to jail and he has his reputation to think of. Surprisingly, Sturges' script keeps things relatively calm, peppered with only a few zany character actors; things would get much more screwball during his heyday in the forties (including starring Stanwyck in The Lady Eve, 1941). Remember the Night also includes some poignant sentimental moments in keeping with the Christmas season (Sturges often managed to stir the emotions even as he split one's sides). MacMurray seems impossibly young and Stanwyck remains perpetually cynical/tender - the next time he would star with her, they would kill her husband (Double Indemnity, 1944). Above average (but surpassed by their later masterpieces). See more

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