Remember the Night
Remember the Night

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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. However, he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail; he also 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 ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Remember the Night:

Barbara Stanwyck
Fred MacMurray
Beulah Bondi
Elizabeth Patterson
Willard Robertson
Sterling Holloway

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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. However, he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail; he also 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?

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Austin Chronicle - 10/10 by Robert FairesIn its way, Remember the Night is as full of the improbabilities of any of the more familiar Christmas movies that we ritually rewatch in this season every year. But it's also no less lacking in the affirmation it makes of the power of love, its ability to melt even the coldest of hearts, to transform our feelings for our fellow man and woman. If that's a feeling you treasure in your holiday viewing, remember the film.
Variety - 10/10 by Variety StaffStanwyck turns in a fine performance. MacMurray is impressive as the serious-minded prosecutor, but loosens up for the comedy stretches.
The Guardian - 9/10 by Guy LodgeBlessed with a characteristically brut champagne script by Preston Sturges, Mitchell Leisen’s Remember the Night is special even by the bright standards of the romantic comedies that Hollywood studios pulled off so breezily in 1940. It’s the cinematic equivalent of oven-warm gingerbread.
The Public (Buffalo) - 9/10 by M. FaustMixing comedy, romance, and a touch of dark melodrama, it offers a touching and believable story of redemption.
Time Out - 9/10 by Geoff AndrewPlaying superbly on the personae of his leads, Leisen creates a movie of warmth and immense style, which never quite trips over into excessive sentimentality.
Boston Globe - 8/10 by Ty BurrPicture is highlighted in numerous instances by some deft telling in the script and fine piloting by director Mitchell Leisen to lift the yarn from commonplace and trite category. Stanwyck turns in a fine performance. MacMurray is impressive as the serious-minded prosecutor, but loosens up for the comedy stretches.
Los Angeles Times - 8/10 by Susan KingStanwyck deftly handles the film’s mix of pathos, comedy and romance. Remember the Night also demonstrates how capable MacMurray could be as leading man.
Chicago Reader - 6/10 by Dave KehrThe loose, graceful script is by Preston Sturges (one of his last before he turned to directing), and it partakes of a softness and nostalgia that seldom surfaced in his own films. Mitchell Leisen, the director, serves the material very well with his slightly distanced, glowing style.
User Review - 10/10 by Luke TMitchell Leisen directs this romantic comedy drama which marks the first collaboration between Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. They both give very good performances in their respective roles as John Sargent and Lee Lelander. She is the woman who is caught shoplifting for the third time and is ordered a trial, but he is the one who postpones the trial so she can have Christmas to spend with her family. Leisen's direction is decent and the two leads are a real delight together whether they are on screen or not. Their best pairing would come 4 years later, but the first outing has got off to a very decent and solid start. What also makes it better is that Christmas movies were very rare during this decade so its makes a good, festive treat.
User Review - 10/10 by Scott RLast night Turner Classic Movies just happened to show this movie. I'd never heard of it, watched it out of curiosity....and was pleasantly surprised. It starts kind of slow with the courthouse scene, but after that, it gets much better. I can understand why mainstream audiences back when it was originally released may not have liked it because of its realism, but as a present-day movie fan I can definitely appreciate that. Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray did a great job and have great chemistry on screen (just like in their other films, "Double Indemnity," etc).

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