Remember the Night
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| Remember the Night (1940) | |
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| Directed by | Mitchell Leisen |
| Produced by | Mitchell Leisen Albert Lewis |
| Written by | Preston Sturges (screenplay) |
| Starring | Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray Beulah Bondi Elizabeth Patterson Sterling Holloway |
| Music by | Frederick Hollander |
| Cinematography | Ted Tetzlaff |
| Editing by | Doane Harrison |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 9, 1940 |
| Running time | 91 min. |
| Language | English |
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Remember the Night (1940) is a film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray.
[edit] Plot
Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck) is a shoplifter who is arrested during the Christmas holidays for trying to steal from a jewelry shop. Assistant District Attorney John Sargeant (Fred MacMurray) is assigned to prosecute her. Her trial date is right after Christmas, and rather than have her spend the holidays in jail and interrupt his vacation, he has the trial postponed.
Discovering that she is a fellow Hoosier from Indiana, he offers to drop her off at her parents' house on his way to visit his mother (Beulah Bondi), cousin Willie (Sterling Holloway), and aunt (Elizabeth Patterson). When her mother rejects her for her past crimes, John brings Lee to his family's house, where she is warmly received.
During the course of the holiday season, John and Lee fall in love, much to the shock of his mother. On the way back through Canada (an earlier escapade with the law in Pennsylvania forced the couple to return to the U.S. a different way), John offers Lee a chance to escape.
[edit] Cast
- Barbara Stanwyck as Lee Leander
- Fred MacMurray as John Sargent
- Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Sargent
- Elizabeth Patterson as Aunt Emma
- Willard Robertson as Francis X. O'Leary
- Sterling Holloway as Willie Simms
- Charles Waldron as Judge (New York)
- Paul Guilfoyle as District Attorney
- Charles Arnt as Tom
- John Wray as Hank
- Thomas W. Ross as Mr. Emory
- Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Rufus (as Snowflake)
- Tom Kennedy as 'Fat' Mike
- Georgia Caine as Lee's Mother
- Virginia Brissac as Mrs. Emory
