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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
A Film by Preston Sturges
DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | 02:00:12 | 4,47 Gb
Audio: AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Romance | Nominated for Oscar | USA

A woman goes to a farewell party for soldiers going off to war. The next morning, she's drunk, married, and pregnant, but doesn't remember who her husband is. The incomparable Preston Sturges treads where other directors feared back in 1944 and miraculously gets away with it. Sturges milks the panic and desperation of the situation for all it's worth, turning into a fast-paced madcap comedy that's part screwball and part slapstick, with the usual Sturges undertones of social commentary. Eddie Bracken is the leading man, playing the shy straight arrow character that made him famous. Great fun.

Added to the National Film Registry in 2001. #54 on AFI's 100 Funniest Movies list.

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Miraculously mad masterpiece. The marvel of THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK is how the film ever got made in the first place. This onslaught against American morals in small towns, against the wartime romances of servicemen, against just about everything that the country held sacred during WWII was reckless, exaggerated, and very funny. Sturges was at his irreverent best with his screenplay and direction of this most unlikely story. Hutton is Trudy Kockenlocker, a man-crazy blonde who lives with her bitchy sister Emmy (Lynn) and her policeman father (Demarest). She gets drunk during one wild, passionate night with a soldier, whom she thinks she may have married, and becomes pregnant.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

The soldier, who she recalls is named something like "Ratsky-Watsky," vanishes, and since being pregnant in a small town without being married is the worst thing that can happen in a girl's life, Trudy's sometime bank clerk boyfriend Norval (Bracken) is tapped to be the father of her child. In one mix-up after another, Novral winds up being sought by authorities for impersonating a soldier, forgery, corrupting the morals of a minor, kidnapping and robbery. It looks bad for the young couple, and the only thing that can save them is a miracle. It does.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

Every role is handled with deftness, and Sturges even gets in a few holdovers from an earlier success, THE GREAT McGINTY, by having Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff stop by for a few well-chosen words. The idea of having squeaky-clean Hutton shown as a (shudder) girl with loose morals was a sensation that somehow eluded the censor's scissors. Some say that the plot managed to escape snipping because the picture was so funny that no one could take it seriously, but the truth is that this movie kept a tight grip on reality and that's what made it so hilarious. The manic Hutton, always an acquired taste, here gets a hilarious part that requires the frantic energy of a whirling dervish on speed. She was never better, and the same goes for the nervous Bracken, the grouchy Demarest and the wisecracking Lynn. Sturges, having begun his uninterrupted string of comic masterpieces in 1940 with MCGINTY, reached a peak in satirical zaniness with this one.
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

Preston Sturges' ("Sullivan's Travels"/"The Great McGinty") irreverent screwball comedy is about the ultimate nerdy stuttering "nervous Nelly," who is being used as a chump by a girl in a jam he's helping out–someone he has always been sweet on. It's filled with Sturges' usual schtick of hilarious frenetic activity, satire and slapstick. The filmmaker takes potshots at parenting, the law enforcers, morality, and religion in this 'comedy of errors' that has the balls to quote from Shakespeare: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon 'em." Timid bank teller Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken) is the clumsy hayseed who has greatness thrust upon him, as Sturges offers his delightfully 'bad taste' nonsensical interpretation of the miraculous nature of Nativity. Though the real miracle might be in how the amoral sexual content got by the Hays Office.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) is a flirtatious blonde disappointed that her single parent father, the gruff town constable, Ed Kockenlocker (William Demarest), won't let her go to an army dance. To outwit him, she gets the nerdy Norval to take her to the movies and she then borrows his car to attend the dance while he catches a triple-feature. The soldiers spike the lemonade and after Trudy dances with a number of GIs, she drunkenly leaves with them and returns at 8 a.m. to discover that she blanked out and can't remember a thing of what happened after the dance. She thinks she may have married, but is not certain which one. She also realizes she used a different name, which she can't remember, and hazily recalls the soldier she might have married had a name something like Ratzkywatzky.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

Things become even more serious for the smalltown gal when she learns she's pregnant, and the soldiers all shipped out to different military posts so she can't trace them. With the help of her conniving younger sister, the 14-year-old Emmy (Diana Lynn), she plans to get Norval to marry her. Not telling her bully father what happened, dad upon hearing rumors assumes Norval was up to no good and forces him to marry his daughter–something Norval is quite willing to do without force. Norval is 4-F because of his extremely nervous condition, but he desires only two things in life: Trudy and to be in the army. When Norval hears of Trudy's plight he's willing to do anything to help her, but whatever Trudy asks him to do only makes things worse.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

Marrying Trudy under the name of Ratzkywatzky leads to big trouble for Norval, whose lie is discovered when he signs his real name on the marriage certificate. Things become so chaotic that Norval is faced with the following charges: impersonating a soldier, forgery, impairing the morals of a minor, kidnapping and bank robbery. Things get cleared up on Christmas morning when Trudy gives birth to sextuplets and the governor when informed of the blessed event, sees this as an honor to his state and clears up through political manuevering all obstacles to the marriage. The guv not only gets all the charges dropped against Norval but makes him a heroic figure and bestows on him an honorary rank of colonel in the National Guard, allowing him to appear in public with a dressy uniform.

It's a funny and subversive film that probably slipped by the censors because they thought it was too ridiculous for anyone to take it seriously.
Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

Edition Details:
• Featurette - Preston Sturges and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (14:03)
• Censorship: Morgan's Creek vs. the Production Code (7:38)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)


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