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Preston Sturges (writer)
Release Date:
19 January 1944 (USA)
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A Scanda-Laugh Fest!
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After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 win
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A subversive satirical gem
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Eddie Bracken | ... | Norval Jones |
 | Betty Hutton | ... | Trudy Kockenlocker |
| Diana Lynn | ... | Emmy Kockenlocker |
| William Demarest | ... | Constable Edmund Kockenlocker |
| Porter Hall | ... | Justice of the Peace |
| Emory Parnell | ... | Mr. Tuerck |
| Al Bridge | ... | Mr. Johnson (as Alan Bridge) |
| Julius Tannen | ... | Mr. Rafferty |
| Victor Potel | ... | Newspaper editor |
 | Brian Donlevy | ... | Governor McGinty (as McGinty) |
| Akim Tamiroff | ... | The Boss |
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98 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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When the film was released, it was such a huge hit, it was literally standing room only for many performances.
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Continuity: When Norval and Mr. Kockenlocker are sitting on the front porch talking, Mr. Kockenlocker is cleaning his gun. He has an automatic pistol, he cocks it to open the chamber for cleaning, and in the next scene he cocks it again.
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Mr. Johnson:
I don't deal with spooks. She doesn't need a lawyer, she needs a Medium.
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Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000) (TV)
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Writer-director Preston Sturges is generally regarded as one of the greatest comic talents ever, and his impeccable track record--including The Lady Eve and Sullivan's Travels--is more than worthy of the praise. Often overlooked, The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek ranks with Sturges' absolute best work.
Sturges takes an almost Capra-esque WWII America and turns it on its pointy little head, with Betty Hutton as a girl who's more than willing to give "the boys" departing for the war the utmost reason to fight for our country. Stripped of her usual production numbers, Hutton cranks up her comic acting skills and creates a surprisingly rich characterization of a young woman straining against the restrictive social attitudes of the time. Eddie Bracken is his usual self-effacing self, and his sad-sack Norval Jones is an earnest, often moving portrayal of the kind of understanding, devotion and love almost never seen in American movies of the era.
A "screwball comedy" only on paper, the often frenetic pacing and physical humor was sufficient to distract censors (and often audiences) from Morgan Creek's almost brutally derisive satire about the hypocrisy of small town "values" and military behavior during wartime, satire that still resonates given the current political climate. No target is safe, from "the troops" and bucolic Anywhere USA to state governors, the Dionne quints, and Adolf Hitler. Sturges pushed hard against the production code and probably earned a few ulcers slipping racy plot twists and subversive dialogue past the censors, but the results were well worth the Maalox. One of the funniest and most pointed satirical comedies ever produced.