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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek [DVD]

Eddie Bracken (Actor), Betty Hutton (Actor), Preston Sturges (Director, Writer) Rated:

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Format	Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Contributor	Al Bridge, Victor Potel, Brian Donlevy, Emory Parnell, Preston Sturges, Julius Tannen, William Demarest, Akim Tamiroff, Eddie Bracken, Hank Bell, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, Porter Hall See more
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 38 minutes

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After a wild farewell party for the troops, Trudy Kockenlocker, a small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers, wakes up to find that she married someone and cant remember his name. Even worse, hes disappeared and she learns shes pregnant!

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Preston Sturges
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 38 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2005
Actors ‏ : ‎ Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0009W5J78
Writers ‏ : ‎ Preston Sturges
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Holds up only if you're a Betty Hutton fan.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2022

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Like most of Betty's films, the storyline is sentimental to mawkish, the dialog is trite and overblown, the situations are melodramatic and too absurd to hold interest. This film holds up better than, say, Betty's dismissible "Stork Club," but it strives too mightily and repetitiously to make its sensitive subject acceptable to a 1940s audience (or more accurately, the Catholic Legion of Decency and the Hays Code). The subject could have been provocative and funny if the directors had the courage to defy the censors (as Howard Hughes did with "The Outlaw"). Instead, they clobber you with distractions that all but obliterate the promising premise (a blonde bombshell partying with departing soldiers, then finding herself pregnant by an unknown father). Betty and to a lesser extent Diana Lyn are the only reasons to watch this movie.

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D. Johnson

Not a Christmas movie.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2022

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Putting a wreath in a scene, a tree in another, and having someone say merry Christmas, does not a Christmas movie make.

It's not a bad movie. It's cute, but wow it has nothing to do with Christmas or the nativity.

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One of the BEST comedies ever

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2017

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I love this movie. Laugh a minute, Brilliant writing(Preston Sturges received an academy award nomination for this). Terrific cast throughout, including supporting players. Betty Hutton plays Trudy, a sweet,pretty small-town girl who goes to a see the troops off dance and comes home married and pregnant and doesn't remember any of it. Eddie Bracken is her nerdy friend who has loved her since they were kids and wants to help her out of her fix! Diana Lynn plays Trudy's sister who is 14 but wise beyond her years and has some of the best lines in the movie. Trudy's dad is William Demarest (of My 3 Sons from TV fame) who is both hilarious and warm and does some of the best slapstick ever! The lines come fast and furious and are laugh-out loud funny. While you laugh at one you may miss another they come so fast, Besides the dialogue there are some great gags as well. This is the first movie I ever saw Betty Hutton in and I think she is terrific! I knew nothing about her screen reputation so could watch just as an actress. She doesn't sing at all in this movie. She's sweet, sensitive,moving and funny as well. (Found out she was named best actress of the year by the National Board of Review). She could act extremely well when given a chance. If you have never seen her I would recommend seeing this first and then moving on to her other films(which is what I did and became a total Betty Hutton fan. She is a joy and so much fun to watch).She and Eddie are a terrific team and were in several other movies together. This film covered subjects that at the time were considered no-no by the film censors of the time but somehow Sturges got it through! I read that it was extremely popular when it came out and played to standing room only at a lot of theaters! Anyway,I loved it and consider it one of the best movies I've ever seen and will re-watch frequently- its that good!

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The Spots...THE SPOTS!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 29, 2004

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Quite possibly the most outrageous, most hilarious comedy to spring out of the fervered imagination of Preston Sturges. "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" is sure to delight and surprise many of those who think movies of the 1940's were morally conservative and rather tame by today's standards.

To sum up, in the small town of Morgan's Creek of 1943, Trudy (played wonderfully by Betty Hutton) helps "send the boys off to war" so to speak and finds out afterwards that she is both married and pregnant. With no idea who the father is, Trudy (with help from her younger sister) plots to marry Norval (the irrepressable Eddie Bracken in what may be his finest role), a 4-F soldier-wannabe whose been in love with Trudy since she was "knee-high to a fire hydrant" or something like that.

(Norval's condition of getting so nervous that he sees "The Spots!", is used to great effect during the film.)

What follows is probably the most over-the-top, insanely funny sequence of events that eventually reaches world-wide proportions.

William Demerest is unforgettable as the put-upon father whose at odds with his two daughters. His constant bickering with Emmy (Diana Lynn), his younger daughter, is absolutely priceless and for me the highlight of the film.

For Sturges fans, the appearence of Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff reprising their roles from "The Great McGinty" will be a particular delight. Donlevy has one of the best lines when he declares "the miracle" to be the biggest thing to hit his state "since we stole it from the Indians!".

A couple of notes; First off, the idea that Trudy got drunk during the "send off" is sheer nonsense. She is never seen drinking anything, save for her sip of the "Victory Lemonade" (which is later established to be spiked). But the look on her face is enough to let you know that she didn't have anymore of the stuff.

Secondly, Sturges received two nominations for Best Original Screenplay for "Miracle" & "Hail, The Conquering Hero!" in 1944. A rare event indeed.

And now, this flick is on DVD! Finally!

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Irresistibly Manic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 31, 2016

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Coming in the middle of his most noted period of creative, comedic genius, Preston Sturges’ 1944 film is another fast-moving, rambunctious, sharply-scripted delight, displaying traits of earlier great Hollywood silent comedies, but also redolent with the film-maker’s penchant for progressive, taboo-breaking themes. Here, 'marriage’ (in particular) takes a real battering, in daring defiance of what you might imagine were the guidelines contained in the Hays Code. Not only do many of Sturges’ 'troupe’ of regularly-used actors here constantly poke fun at the oppressive nature of the 'institution’, but its permanence is mocked equally, even if it must still be used (albeit deceitfully) as a cover for motherhood (the neatly disguised source of the 'miracle’ of the film’s title).

On the subject of Sturges’ 'company’ of players, Miracle provides a particularly fine example of how the seamless, familiar playing off one another within this group (of whom a dozen or so appear here) leads to many great ensemble scenes, laced with both antagonistic hilarity and infectious conviviality. Arguably, the star of the show here is the great ‘Sturges stalwart’, William Demarest, as the stern (but pinny-wearing!), single parent, Constable Edmund Kockenlocker, protectively watching over his daughters, Betty Hutton’s fun-seeking, Trudy, who has 'made out’ (drunkenly and anonymously!) with a GI, and younger sister, Diana Lynn’s precocious, wise-cracking Emmy. Both Hutton and Eddie Bracken as Norval Jones, Trudy’s childhood sweetheart and the target of her deceit (looking to extricate herself from her shameful predicament), turn in fine performances here, the latter particularly good as the bungling, stuttering, gullible (but, of course, well-meaning) orphan, whose masculinity is in doubt and who is the (Stan Laurel-like) subject of Sturges’ repeated pratfalls. However, Lynn is also due a particular mention. Not only does she turn in a performance of remarkable maturity for one so young, but Sturges’ confidence in his young charge is evident in that he gives Lynn some of the film’s best lines.

Elsewhere, the jokes and great set-pieces come thick and fast. The film’s opening set-up is brilliantly done as newsmen, Victor Potel and Julius Tannen, gabble (Marx Bros-like) their 'sensational news’ to Brian Donleavy’s Governor McGinty (reprising the character from the 1940 Sturges film), before the story is told in flashback. Fun is later poked at McGinty’s self-aggrandising authority role, together with mercenary lawyers, as Al Bridge’s legal man at one points quips, 'I’m anxious to sue anyone, anytime for anything!’. There is also an hilarious play on words around the possible names of Trudy’s anonymous husband (Ratzkywatzky). It’s a film whose pacing, sharp dialogue and hilarious set-pieces can be talked about in the same breath as Hawks’ His Girl Friday and you don’t get any higher praise than that!

The Spanish DVD available also provides a very good visual quality.

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AlexCrewe

Charming and Very Funny

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 5, 2013

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A fondly remembered film last seen long ago on British TV. A little dated, of course, and the desperation within the plot to fake a marriage license is way out of step with modern mores. But lovely stuff and Betty Hutton is perfect.
The DVD is fine. The film is not available in a European version, but this Korean (?) packaged, Region 2 Import version worked like a dream on my very old UK Sony DVD player at first attempt with no adjustments necessary.
Highly recommended for Sturges fans. (I doubt there are many Eddie Bracken fans still out there).

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BB85

A joyous resurrection

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 22, 2016

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I adore this film. Although it's over 20 years since I saw it last, it is as fresh, funny and daring as it appeared originally. I thought I would never see it again; it had disappeared from sale despite other works of Preston Sturges being available,

Ralph McCandles

Miracle of Morgans creek

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 28, 2012

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The miracle of Morgans Creek, 5 out of 5, Excellent screwball comedy from the brilliant Preston Sturges.
A very funny film for fans of the genre.

carol campbell

the cover is below par

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 3, 2014

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I bought this as a present for my brother who is a dvd collector so was dissapointed with the cover looked very cheaply made and had japanese writing on it apart from that the actual dvd was fine once the subtitles were turned off

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