A wild night on the town with departing soldiers leaves small town girl trudy kockenlocker with childbut she cant remember who the father is, so the lovestruck schnook norval jones is recruited to protect her honor. The shot sampled at right is, in my opinion, one of the greatest in movie history. Box office speaks louder than hate mail, of course, so sturges survived unscathed. Sturges script was nominated for a best original screenplay oscar at the 1945 academy awards.
Peter bogdanovichs five favorite films the miracle of morgan s creek. A smalltown 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 cant remember. The miracle of morgans creek 1992 in this wacky preston sturges comedy, the soldiersmitten trudy kockenlocker betty hutton discovers that she is both married and pregnant after a raucous. A boldly conceived farce, it depicted the problems faced by a woman betty hutton who gives birth to sextuplets exactly nine months after.
Brian donlevy and akim tamiroff reprise their roles from sturges 1940 film the great mcginty. Ignatz ratzkywatzky in preston sturges the miracle of morgans creek. After an allnight sendoff party for the troops, a smalltown girl. Other articles where the miracle of morgans creek is discussed. The miracle of morgans creek dcp projection characteristically hectic sturges amalgam of satire and slapstick, hitting out at such sacred cows as momism and religion as it tells of the predicament of hutton, a lively smalltown girl who finds herself pregnant after a drunken binge during which she married one of six unknown soldiers. The miracle of morgan s creek 1992 cast and crew in this wacky preston sturges comedy, the soldiersmitten trudy kockenlocker betty hutton discovers that she is both married and pregnant after. The miracle of morgans creek 1944 streaming vostfr. Spoilers 1 the long tracking shots of betty hutton and eddie bracken and also hutton and diana lynn delivering pages of dialogue while walking for five minutes down several blocks of the town streets were extremely complex to film for that era. One sign of a great director is if he or she can elicit a good performance from a crappy actor or actress, such as john ford did with victor mature in my darling clementine, peter bogdanovich with cybil shepard as daisy miller, and preston sturges with the usually insufferable betty hutton.
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