Based on the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. Originally released in 1940 as a motion picture. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Belulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson, Sterling Holloway.
Summary:
Classy shoplifter Lee Leander, on trial for swiping a diamond bracelet, has her case postponed by Assistant District Attorney John Sargent until after Christmas. Taking pity on her, he bails her out of jail. He's driving home to Indiana for the holidays, and when he finds Lee's a Hoosier too, offers to drop her at her mother's on the way. When she's rejected by her mother, he brings her home to his place where his mother, his aunt and their farmhand, Willie, give her a real Christmas and the love she's never had. Inevitably, Lee and John fall in love -- but there's still a trial ahead.
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