The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

US (1944): Comedy

While this celebrated screwball comedy may not rise to the sophisticated heights of his previous masterpieces The Lady Eve (1941) and The Palm Beach Story (1942), Sturges's familiar blend of fast dialogue and zany slapstick is still apparent. Betty Hutton finds herself pregnant after a night with a soldier she thinks was named "Ratsky-Watsky or something like that" and needs to find a husband, a position that falls to milquetoast bank clerk Eddie Bracken. What follows is a chaotic assault on everything sacred in WW II America: motherhood, the military, and family values. The characters of McGinty (Brian Donlevy) and The Boss (Akim Tamiroff), who appear briefly in the film, were the central characters in the 1940 film The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges's directorial debut. (Paramount) (amctv.com)

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