Synopsis
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Metacritic78/100
129 audience votes
Key crew
- Preston SturgesScreenplay
- Mitchell LeisenDirector
- Friedrich HollaenderOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Barbara StanwyckLee Leander/Anna Rose Malone
- Fred MacMurrayJack Sargent
- Beulah BondiMrs. Sargent
- Elizabeth PattersonAunt Emma "Emmie"
- Willard RobertsonFrancis X. O'Leary
- Sterling HollowayWillie Simms
- Charles WaldronJudge in New York
- Paul GuilfoyleDistrict Attorney
- Charles ArntTom
- John WrayHank
- Thomas W. RossMr. Emory
- Fred 'Snowflake' ToonesRufus
Stills
Themes
new year's eveindiana, usacourt caseredemptionroad triprespectniagara fallsfalling in lovekindnessfamilydistrict attorneyprosecutor