|
|
My Easy Marketplace - Remember the Night
|
List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $55.99
Your Save: $ ( % )
Availability:
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson
Directed By: Mitchell Leisen
|
Average Customer Rating: 
|
|
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303560069
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 6303560067
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: 1995-09-12
Running Time: 94
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1940-01-09
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Brilliantly directed and acted
Comment: Stanwyck's lawyer describing to the jury, in ultra-dramatic terms, how the jewelry hypnotized her into stealing it, and hypnotized her into returning it--but first she had to get to Long Island and you need money to do that--so she stopped in at the "hock shop"--is just the first of the priceless setpieces of Mitchell Leisen's classic weeper REMEMBER THE NIGHT. People say Preston Sturges is responsible for how great this movie is, but I give Leisen lots of credit, and I don't know if I would have liked a Sturges-directed REMEMBER THE NIGHT. You know there would have been more of the scenes which might have looked great on paper, but are clunkers on film--the scene where the cow eats Stanwyck's hat, the scene where the angry farmer brings McMurray and Stanwyck to the Pennsylvania JP (and she has to set fire to the wastepaper basket to escape). Well--these scenes are beneath the talents of the stars--they might as well have gotten Bud Abbott and Joan Davis to play them.
As for the scenes with "Snowflake," they are hard to take! Maybe the one is sort of cute when McMurray impersonates Snowflake's voice on the phone, but the caller tells him he will never be an actor. But then you see Snowflake looking puzzled in the background and you just cringe.
Those NYC scenes do have a peculiar pre-Code flavor to them, though, don't they? Sophisticated isn't the word! They're downright seamy just like Stanwyck pictures of 10 years before, with the implication that Fat Mike is delivering Lee to Sargent for sexual favors that will get her off the hook and result in a reduced or dismissed charge--and that's par for the course in prosecutorial circles. At any rate, that's what Fat Mike seems to believe is going on--Lee too. She's shocked when it develops that John Sergeant isn't going to require her to sleep with him. So there's a bit of noir flavor in the first half of the picture, but once Beulah Bondi and Elizabeth Patterson enter the action, the movie becomes incomparably richer and more satisfying.
Others have described it better, the way Bondi treads a delicate course between coming to care for Stanwyck, and knowing that marrying her would be ruinous for John's career. We may not agree with Bondi's position, and in fact we were rooting for the aunt to win in the debate, but Leisen's camera insists that we pay her respect and take her argument seriously. Only under the pressure of Bondi's loving admonition, I think, is Stanwyck really able to change, able to see why her own harum-scarum life isn't ultimately very satisfactory. I have no words for the scene in which Bondi pulls the strings of the old fashioned girdle to reduce Stanwyck's waistline from 25 ot 26 to a 1910 ideal of 19. It is tender, physical, practical, luminous--and educational too--we were like, OMG, look at all those crazy underwears!
And yes, what about that title!!! Even something corny like "Second Chance" would have been more comprehensible.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Some peeks of the FABULOUS MARTHA MEARS
Comment: Little general recognition is given to the great singer Martha Mears, but she has two singing appearances here in Remember The Night. Martha Mears had a great voice and knew how to deliver a song, not for herself but for the sake of the song. Because of her wonderful voice she was hired to dub Rita Hayworth, Lucille Ball and many others in a fine career in more than 50 films. Marnie Nixon had a great predecessor in the fabulous Martha Mears who deserves your attention.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A TRUE CLASSIC!
Comment: I loved this movie. Just viewed it on Turner Classic Movies on television, and as an avid movie classics fan, I'm sorry to say that I can't remember seeing this one. I wish it was available on VHS or DVD at a reasonable price. Would love to add it to my Christmas collection; although it is a timeless classic that can be viewed any time of the year.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A touching gem
Comment: I thought I'd seen all the best holiday movies until stumbling upon an old VHS tape of Remember the Night last year. It's got romance, pathos, Americana, humor -- why on earth hasn't it been released on DVD yet!! I'd buy a dozen to give as gifts.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Holiday Movie
Comment: This a wonderful feel good holiday movie where fun, hope, and spirit bubble through the whole plot. Where's the DVD, man?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
