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Remember The Night

1940, Movie, NR, 86 mins

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You'd have to be a grump not to like this funny, sentimental blend of pathos, drama and zaniness. It may have been former art director Mitchell Leisen's best directorial effort, mainly due to the superior Preston Sturges script about a tough shoplifting cookie (Barbara Stanwyck) who gets nabbed by the cops just before Christmas. The prosecuting attorney (Stanwyck's Double Indemnity costar, Fred MacMurray) winds up taking her to his family home in Indiana, where they fall in love. Read the complete review for Remember The Night
Year: 1940
Rated NR

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Cast
Barbara Stanwyck: Lee Leander
Fred MacMurray: John Sargent
Beulah Bondi: Mrs. Sargent
Elizabeth Patterson: Aunt Emma
Willard Robertson: Francis X. O'Leary
Sterling Holloway: Willie

 

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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 realiz read more

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