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REMEMBER THE NIGHT
U.S., 1940
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Written by Preston Sturges
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Sterling Holloway
Approx. 94 min. 35mm.
Assistant NYC D.A. Fred MacMurray brings his maiden aunts in Indiana a Christmas present: convicted shoplifter Barbara Stanwyck. Classic Sturges comedy romance, his last screenplay for another director.
Reviews
“LUDICROUSLY UNDERRATED!”
– Time Out (New York)
“Sturges’ loose, graceful script has a softness and nostalgia that seldom surfaced
in his own films.”
– Dave Kehr