Remember the Night is a little known gem of a film that deserves to be transferred to DVD. Every moment in the film is wonderful:
That defense lawyer scene in the beginning, when he attempts the "hypnotism" defense to defend petty thief Lee. His histrionics toward the jury make for a wonderfully comic scene
Barbara Stanwyck saying to Fred MacMurray "one of these days, one of you guys is going to start one of these scenes in a new way, and one of us girls is going to drop dead from surprise"
The aforementioned scene the BFB described when Lee goes to see her mother. Chilling.
And my favorite moment...when Lee is at MacMurray's family home, and they are sitting around, singing "at the end of the day" and Lee is looking around, senses the family and love in the room and begins to cry. Powerful film moment.
It's coming up on TCM this week!!! Saturday at 3pm (west coast time)Set your DVR's to catch it, cause you won't regret it.
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
