Fresh
Stanwyck turns in a fine performance. MacMurray is impressive as the serious-minded prosecutor, but loosens up for the comedy stretches.
Variety Staff, Variety
Remember the Night
Barbara and Fred in 1940's first great love affair…!
1940 · 1h 34m · PASSED
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Mitchell Leisen
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Mitchell Leisen Director
- 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 in New York
- Paul Guilfoyle as District Attorney
- Charles Arnt as Tom (as Charlie Arnt)
- John Wray as Hank
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Playing superbly on the personae of his leads, Leisen creates a movie of warmth and immense style, which never quite trips over into excessive sentimentality.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Perhaps this is a bit too early in the season to be talking of the best pictures of 1940; it is not too early to say that Paramount's nomination is worth considering.
Frank S. Nugent, New York Times
Fresh
The 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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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