Synopsis
When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.
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Cast
- Barbara StanwyckLee Leander
- Fred MacMurrayJack Sargent
- Beulah BondiMrs. Sargent
- Elizabeth PattersonAunt Emma
- Willard RobertsonFrancis X. O'Leary
- Sterling HollowayWillie Simms
- Charles WaldronJudge in New York
- Paul GuilfoyleDistrict Attorney
- Charles ArntTom (as Charlie Arnt)
- John WrayHank
Recommendations
- 100
Austin Chronicle
In 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. - 90
The Guardian
Blessed 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. - 80
Time Out
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. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Stanwyck deftly handles the film’s mix of pathos, comedy and romance. Remember the Night also demonstrates how capable MacMurray could be as leading man. - 75
Chicago Reader
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. Mitchell Leisen, the director, serves the material very well with his slightly distanced, glowing style. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
You'd have to be a grump not to like this funny, sentimental blend of pathos, drama and zaniness. - 75
Boston Globe
Written by Preston Sturges and directed by the great Mitchell Leisen, it's both sexy and touching. [19 Dec 2007, p.F6] - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
The movie has the wisecracking quality of a Sturges screenplay, but it's warm and heartfelt, too. [13 Nov 2016, p.Q16]
