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Date Posted: 21:09:49 05/19/12 Sat
Author: JAG Junkie (Ronda)--who spends too much time watching old movies
Subject: "Remember the Night" - an underrated, little-known classic movie

I just watched the 1940 movie "Remember the Night" with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. This is obviously the movie that the writers had in mind when they came up with the storyline for the JAG ep where they introduced Jennifer Coates. It's too similar for it to be a coincidence.

Barbara Stanwyck plays a thief and Fred MacMurray is prosecuting her. It's Christmas, he gets a continuance but feels bad that she will have to spend Christmas in jail, so he gets her out, only she has no place to go. He is planning to go home for the holidays and they realize that she is from an area near his hometown so they decide he will drop her off on his way. After witnessing the cold reception her mother gives her, he decides to not leave her there, and takes her to his mother's house instead, where she experiences the warmth of a real family at Christmastime. Just as you would suspect, they fall in love.

As you can see this is very similar to the JAG ep "Answered Prayers", except for the falling in love part, although several fanfic writers try to put Harm and Jen together (ew!) I had been looking for this movie for a while and thought I would have to wait until Christmas for it to be aired on TV, but TCM (one of my favorite channels) actually showed it the other night so I happily set the TiVo.

Has anyone else seen this movie? It's not very well known and I'm not too sure how I even found out about it. I think it was when I was looking at Barbara Stanwyck on IMDB (one of my favorite websites). I thought I would point it out because of the obvious JAG connection.

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[> Expect, not suspect. -- JJ (Ronda)--I should proofread., 21:11:43 05/19/12 Sat [1]


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[> I think I remember this movie. Was it set in Chicago and was Fred MacMurrays character was from Indiana? If its the same, I did love this movie. I dont think they make them like they used to. I really like the old ones better, with only a few exceptions. -- mkim Maybe thats what I loved about JAG, its writers and creator were huge classic movie buffs. Sigh!, 23:06:35 05/19/12 Sat [1]


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[> [> I think it was set in New York, but yes he was from Indiana. They went through Pennsylvania and Ohio to get to Indiana, so I'm pretty sure it was NY and not Chicago. ;-) -- JJ (Ronda)--You're right. They don't make them like they used to. Sigh., 10:22:39 05/20/12 Sun [1]


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[> [> Forgot to add, you must be right about them being classic movie buffs, because they always have Tony referencing old movies on NCIS. -- JJ (Ronda)--Of course Remington Steele referenced old movies long before anyone ever thought up the character of Anthony DiNosso., 10:24:57 05/20/12 Sun [1]


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[> have never seen it but it sounds like my kind of movie - would be fun to see - wonder if you can rent it - -- chris k, 21:57:01 05/20/12 Sun [1]


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[> [> Chris, you would love it. I know it's available on DVD, but my Netflix distribution warehouse didn't have it. From the reviews I've seen online, it is common for it to be shown at Christmas, probably on channels like TCM. -- JJ (Ronda), 22:57:06 05/20/12 Sun [1]


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