If you can just get past the first tedious twenty minutes of this film then you are in for a treat. The opening trial scenes really bog down the movie and although it appears to be written for laughs it's just not funny. However, once Fred MacMurray decides to take wayward Barbara Stanwyck home for Christmas things really perk up as the relationship between them and the people they meet are explored. There are many excellent performances here and you will long remember the hate filled cameo by Georgia Caine as Stanwyck's Mother and the genuine, loving performances by Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson and Sterling Holloway as Fred's family. Unfortunately there is also the casting of Fred 'Snowflake' Toones (as a black servant to MacMurray) in a small part that, seen through modern eyes, is offensive and degrading. MacMurray and Stanwyck are a great couple though and this is a film well worth watching despite the drawbacks.
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