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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Genre:
Comedy (more)
Plot Summary: Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers, wakes up the morning after...
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User Comments:
Whew!
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User Rating:
 
7.8/10 (1,420 votes)
Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Finland:S / Sweden:15 / USA:Unrated
Trivia:
One of the biggest news stories of the 1940s was the birth of the first known set of quintuplets to the Dionne family in Canada, so Trudy's set of six babies would have been an even bigger sensation. This explains why, in the montage of international reactions to the births, the Canadian Premier is quoted as saying that the news is "Possible, but not probable" in the evident hope that his nation will not lose its claim to fame. Also, the reason that Hitler and Mussolini are portrayed as receiving the news of Miss Kockenlocker's happy event with anger and dismay is because both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy had a policy of encouraging motherhood and an expanding population in their countries, even offering cash bonuses for large families.
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Quotes:
Mr. Johnson:
The responsibility for recording a marriage has always been up to woman. If it wasn't for her, marriage would have disappeared long since. No man is going to jeopardize his present or poison his future with a lot of little brats hollering around the house unless he's forced to. It's up to the woman to knock him down, hogtie him, and drag him in front of two witnesses immediately if not sooner. Anytime after that is too late.
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 win
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User Comments:
10 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Whew!, 3 November 2003
Author:
harry-76 from Cleveland, Ohio
From the very start they're off and running. Even under the opening credits
cast members are seen frantically gesticulating and flailing. And the movie
has hardly begun.
So what's to be done with the next 98 minutes, if one begins climatically
sweating and pulsating? Ease up the pace a bit to allow viewer to catch his
breath?
Not Director Sturges: he continues to plow through this comedy at breakneck
speed, as though any repose might prove fatal.
We get two super energetic starts--Bracken and Hutton--and a cast of
obedient supports obeying the eager director's every frenetic command. We
end with one of the screwiest screwball comedies of the forties.
This film has acquired a devoted following of supporters who find "Morgan's
Creek" very funny, along with a goodly number of detractors, who see it as
an essentially strained and bloated one-joke yarn.
As usual, Sturges makes sharp social comments along the way and handles
large groups with Capraesque skill. But that he manages to maintain his
unrelentingly breathless pace throughout the shoot may be the real miracle
of Morgan's Creek.
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