A few years ago I saw an old ...
Question: A few years ago I saw an old black-and-white Christmas movie. A man (maybe a lawyer) has to take a female criminal home with him for the holidays. Of course, they end up falling in love and he fights for her release. Do you know the title and who stars in it? Thanks.
Answer: It's Remember the Night (1940), written by Preston Sturges, directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Barbara Stanwyck as a New York chippie caught shoplifting a diamond bracelet shortly before Christmas. Fred MacMurray plays the assistant DA who's going to prosecute her, but when he realizes that she's going to spend Christmas in jail and that she's from his home state, Indiana, he arranges to have her released into his custody so he can escort her to spend the holidays with her family. But her mother wants nothing to do with her, so he's forced to take her home to his family. Like It's a Wonderful Life, Remember the Night balances its sentimentality with a bracing streak of clear-eyed pragmatism.
