Remember the Night (1940)

Shoplifter gets arrested close to Christmas and the savvy prosecutor, eager to get on the road to his hometown, gets the case delayed til the new year. He feels bad, though, when he realizes that means the accused will have to spend the holidays in the clink. Since the crook’s Barbara Stanwyck and the lawyer’s Fred MacMurray, he bails her out and takes her home for the holidays.

There's only one surprise in this movie and it comes right at the end, but that’s fine. We knew what we were getting and that's exactly what we wanted.

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