Remember the Night

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Remember the Night (1940)

NR 01/19/1940 (US) Comedy, Romance 1h 34m

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Barbara and Fred in 1940's first great love affair…!

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Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.

Mitchell Leisen

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Preston Sturges

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Barbara Stanwyck

Lee Leander/Anna Rose Malone
Fred MacMurray

Jack Sargent
Beulah Bondi

Mrs. Sargent
Elizabeth Patterson

Aunt Emma "Emmie"
Willard Robertson

Francis X. O'Leary
Sterling Holloway

Willie Simms
Charles Waldron

Judge in New York
Paul Guilfoyle

District Attorney
Charles Arnt

Tom
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A review by John Chard

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Written by John Chard on December 27, 2015

You don't have to be a horse to judge a horse show.

Remember the Night is directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Preston Sturges. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson and Sterling Holloway. Music is by Friedrich Hollaender and cinematography by Ted Tetzlaff.

A lovely heart warming tale for the Yuletide season, story pitches Stanwyck as a lady thief and MacMurray as the prosecutor who takes pity on her and takes her home to meet his family. Back stories are revealed and the chemistry between the two principals is palpable. The... read the rest.

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