Fred MacMurray is the assistant district attorney who falls in love with the light-fingered lady he is prosecuting, Barbara Stanwyck, in this Preston Sturges screenplay directed by Mitchell Leisen. Leisen shared Sturges' cultivated sense of character humor, though not his outrageous cynicism, and Remember The Night is a more controlled and mellow movie than one Sturges might have made from the same script. Andrew Sarris calls it “a nice, sensitive, nuanced movie...” and the New York Times' 1940 review asserts, “Rarely has a theme been so smoothly advanced and so pleasantly played out to so sensible and credible a conclusion.” However, lest this deter you, Michael Goodwin's recent re-assessment of what can in fact be considered a forgotten film, finds it “Subversive, ironic, entertaining... full of the complexity of life.... It's a comedy of sorts - touching, human, marvelously constructed, purely Sturgean in its moral complexity, narrative irony - and so surely entertaining as to put every Academy Award winner of the last ten years to shame.” William K. Everson has long considered it to be Mitchell Leisen's finest film.