Fresh
Done in the satirical Sturges vein, and directed with that same touch, the story makes much of characterization and somewhat wacky comedy, plus some slapstick, with excellent photography figuring throughout.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
The True Story of TRUDY KOCKENLOCKER, who kissed the Boys Goodbye... REGIMENT BY REGIMENT!
1944 · 1h 38m · Approved
Comedy, Romance, War
Directed by
Preston Sturges
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Preston Sturges Director
- Eddie Bracken as Norval Jones
- Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker
- Diana Lynn as Emmy Kockenlocker
- William Demarest as Constable Edmund Kockenlocker
- Porter Hall as Justice of the Peace
- Emory Parnell as Mr. Tuerck
- Al Bridge as Mr. Johnson
- Julius Tannen as Mr. Rafferty
- Victor Potel as Newspaper Editor
- Brian Donlevy Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Caustic and chaotic in the arch Sturges manner, it's probably his funniest and most smilingly malicious film.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Great verbal gags and non-sequiturs, fast-paced action, and a thorough irreverence for all things deemed respectable -- politicians, policemen and magistrates included -- make it a lasting delight.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Mr. Sturges as author and director, is thoroughly up to his stinging style in this film.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
The overall result is one of the most violently funny comedies, one of the most original, vigorous and cheerfully outrageous moving pictures that ever came out of Hollywood.
TIME Magazine
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