Remember the Night

IMDb link: 0032981
IMDb rating: 7.5 (8,315 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Reality-TV
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson and others

Release date: 19 Jan 1940
Release year: 1939
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: christmas, domineering mother, manipulative mother, jail sentence, jewelry, shoplifter, stealing jewelry, pawn shop, fifth avenue manhattan new york city, prosecutor

Plot:

Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. However, he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail; he also ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background), they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?

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