The films reviewed here represent those I have liked or loved over the years. It is not a list of my favourite films but all the films reviewed here are worth seeing and worth seeking out. I know many of you won't agree with me on a lot of these but hopefully you will grant me, and the films that appear here, our place in the sun. Thanks for reading.
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
REMEMBER THE NIGHT
A classic and yet one most people have never even heard of, "Remember the Night" was a Mitchell Leisen movie with an original screenplay by Preston Sturges and stared Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, (before they got all hot and bothered in "Double Indemnity"), so what more proof do you need that it's a classic and a very funny one, too.
Stanwyck is the jewel thief and MacMurray the District Attorney determined to put her in jail for stealing a diamond bracelet over Christmas but in typical screwball fashion MacMurray ends up taking her home for the holidays to meet the folks. The inevitable happens. Both leads are superb and there are great supporting turns from Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Sterling Holloway and Willard Robertson as the defence attorney whose opening speech to the jury is worth the price of admission. It may not be "The Lady Eve" but it's certainly the next best thing.
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