The Night(1940): Remember

The snow in Manhattan didn't fall; it attacked. , a shoplifter with a silver tongue and "heavy fingers," stood in a courtroom just days before Christmas, facing her third offense for swiping a diamond bracelet. Across from her stood John Sargent , a straight-laced District Attorney who knew that a holiday jury wouldn't convict a pretty woman. He engineered a postponement, but a prick of holiday conscience led him to post her bail so she wouldn't spend Christmas in a cell.