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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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Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers, wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember--and she's pregnant. Norval Jones, the 4-F local boy who's been in love with Trudy for years, tries to help her find a way out of her predicament. Trudy complicates matters further by falling for Norval, and events snowball from there. Written by James Meek <james@oz.net>
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February 1944 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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1.33 : 1
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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. See more »Connections
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From the very start they're off and running. Even under the opening credits cast members are seen frantically gesticulating and flailing. And the movie has hardly begun.
So what's to be done with the next 98 minutes, if one begins climatically sweating and pulsating? Ease up the pace a bit to allow viewer to catch his breath?
Not Director Sturges: he continues to plow through this comedy at breakneck speed, as though any repose might prove fatal.
We get two super energetic starts--Bracken and Hutton--and a cast of obedient supports obeying the eager director's every frenetic command. We end with one of the screwiest screwball comedies of the forties.
This film has acquired a devoted following of supporters who find "Morgan's Creek" very funny, along with a goodly number of detractors, who see it as an essentially strained and bloated one-joke yarn.
As usual, Sturges makes sharp social comments along the way and handles large groups with Capraesque skill. But that he manages to maintain his unrelentingly breathless pace throughout the shoot may be the real miracle of Morgan's Creek.