REMEMBER THE NIGHT
introduced by Victoria Wilson
2:40
Sunday, November 22
Introduced by Victoria Wilson, author of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 (Simon and Schuster). A new paperback edition, hot off the press, will be available for sale in our lobby, with a book signing following the screening.
(1940, Mitchell Leisen) Assistant New York D.A. Fred MacMurray gets shoplifter Barbara Stanwyck’s case postponed over the holiday season, then ends up bringing her back home to Indiana for Christmas. Preston Sturges’ last script before his writer/director debut (with The Great McGinty in 1940), and one of his warmest, if satirical, portraits of small town Americana. 35mm.
Reviews
“DEEPLY MOVING! Stanwyck is so city-kid streetwise when doing comedy and so vulnerable—unguarded to the point of masochism—in her moments of romantic surrender.”
– Mark Asch, Brooklyn Magazine
“Miss Stanwyck has played the girl with grave understanding and charm, rounding out the character rather than stamping it out by stencil.”
– Frank Nugent, The New York Times
“Sturges’ loose, graceful script partakes of a softness and nostalgia that seldom surfaced in his own films.”
– Dave Kehr