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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9781415713716
Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1415713715
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD043124D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 98 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: January 19, 1944
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Trudy is a smalltown gal who feels it is her patriotic duty to dance the night away with soldiers who are headed overseas. But after too many glasses of victory lemonade she awakens the next morning to find a wedding ring on her finger & no recollection of her new husband! Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/01/2007 Starring: Betty Hutton Eddie Bracken Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Nr
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During World War II, Hollywood's patriotic duty was to shoot stirring dramas and good-hearted comedies that celebrated America's brave soldiers and honored their loyal, virtuous wives and girlfriends. Which goes a long way toward explaining why this delirious Preston Sturges farce, filmed in 1943 at the height of the war effort (and of its director's powers), was delayed for a year while Paramount executives wrestled with Sturges's irreverence: in Morgan's Creek, the writer-director tweaked those stereotypes with his tale of Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl who only wants to send our boys off with a smile. That she does, but she wakes up after an all-night party with vague memories of a dubious wedding and soon finds herself pregnant.
Trudy, played by the ebullient Betty Hutton, is wholesome, sexy, and something of a ditz, in contrast to Sturges's usual savvy heroines (represented instead by Trudy's teenaged younger sister, played by Diana Lynn). Trudy's savior is would-be boyfriend Norval, played to apoplectic perfection by the rubber-faced Eddie Bracken, who was never better than in this wide-eyed, pratfall-happy performance as the weary but loyal draft reject who stands by his girl. As Trudy's father, Sturges regular William Demarest likewise achieves a series of comic peaks as the exasperated and increasingly desperate Officer Kockenlocker.
Like Sturges's other Bracken-Demarest vehicle, the equally fine Hail, the Conquering Hero, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek was unique among wartime movies for its satirical sting and unblinking eye for hypocrisy on the home front. It's also enormous fun, a comedic romp that epitomizes Sturges's kinetic, high-speed style. --Sam Sutherland
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Rating:  -
You can tell that a great deal of intelligence went into the making of this film.
There were a number of scenes that were very long takes indeed, some over five minutes each. And that gave the movie a fresh, stage-like feel to it.
But, hoping this movie would live up to the hype it's gotten over the years by critics and fans alike, I can't say it was all that great, all that funny.
Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken were, for me, somewhat *tedious* in their performances. ... Read More
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This has got to be one of the funniest, hilarious, zaniest, outrageous movies of its time. Preston Struges, was one of the top writers then directors for Paramount Studios when he made this film. He was the type of man to have a crazy scene in there some kind of way. Another thing about him is that he sprinkled the word sex in his movies pretty liberally. Supposedly, it was made in 1941,1942, delayed a while, some say due to the nature of the film, and hmm, I could see why if that be the case. Some say for ... Read More
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An excellent movie. B&W but keeps one laughing from start to finish. Really great. Seen it first on TCM and had to oder a copy foir my collection. M. Langan
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That Preston Sturges managed to get this perversion of the Christmas story past the censors is a miracle all on its own. Betty Hutton's and Eddie Bracken's peculiar talents are a perfect fit for this story about greatness thrust upon an unlikely recipient.
Sturges's crazy combination of really smart banter, simple-minded slapstick and a perfect sense of comic timing works miracles with a great supporting cast: Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Julius Tannen and Porter Hall.
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Preston Sturges, writer-director of this wonderful picture was a master! He set the bar at Paramount in the 1940s for comedy and this is a prime example.
It is great stuff indeed. With a cast that could not be bettered, this is one of the funniest films ever made. It starts off fast paced and there is not one single moment the screen is idle.
Betty Hutton gives a great performance and she was only 22 years old at the time. This film was her breakthrough in Hollywood and she ... Read More
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