Remember the Night (1940)

Directed by

Mitchell Leisen

Genre

comedy drama, romantic comedy, Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 127 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A prosecutor and a shoplifter meet during her trial. He takes her to his family home for Christmas, where they start to fall for each other.

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What happens

Remember the Night is a 1940 American Christmas romantic comedy trial film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. The film was written by Preston Sturges and was the last of his scripts shot by another director, as Sturges began his own directorial career the same year with The Great McGinty. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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