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Format: Laserdisc
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
Closed Captioned
98 min.
UPC: 013023484160 |
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Movie Description
Preston Sturges directs THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, about Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) a party girl who wakes up one morning to find she's married and pregnant, but she cannot remember who, of six possible American soldiers, is the lucky guy.
Synopsis
Creating a frantic and hilarious world, fearless comedic writer-director Preston Sturges deftly handles this potentially dicey story. Trudy Kockenlocker, played whimsically by Betty Hutton, is a small-town girl with a soft spot for booze and for American soldiers who wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she is married to and pregnant by one of six unknown soldiers. Of course, she can't remember who either of them was. Eddie Bracken ardently plays Norval Jones, the stuttering oaf of a local boy who's been in love with Trudy for years and who does everything in his power to help her find a way out of her predicament. Trudy complicates matters further by falling for Norval, and events snowball from there. Great verbal gags and nonsequiturs abound. The cutting screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, and Sturges’s stock company of actors has never been better than in this daring wartime farce that was used as the basis for and remade as ROCK-A-BYE BABY.
Industry Reviews
"Here is one of the comic masterpieces of the American cinema -- Preston Sturges's amiably blasphemous 1944 update of the Nativity story to a small town in postwar America."
New York Times - Dave Kehr (09/06/2005)
4 stars out of 4 -- "The result is still astonishing and hilarious."
Premiere - Glenn Kenny (11/01/2005)
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