After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 2 nominations total
- Mr. Johnson
- (as Alan Bridge)
- Governor McGinty
- (as McGinty)
- Aide
- (uncredited)
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- Homecoming Spectator
- (uncredited)
- Nurse
- (uncredited)
- Mrs. Johnson
- (uncredited)
- Short Soldier
- (uncredited)
- Head Nurse
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe 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. Cameras were placed on tracks and pulled backwards by six crewmembers. The sound crew also walked backwards with handheld boom microphones, while other assistants maneuvered 300 yards of cable, lights and reflectors. Preston Sturges and John Seitz shot more than 11,000 feet of film before they got the desired footage (400 feet) they needed.
- GoofsWhen Norval and Mr. Kockenlocker are sitting on the front porch talking, Mr. Kockenlocker is cleaning his gun. He has an automatic pistol, he cocks it to open the chamber for cleaning, and in the next scene he cocks it again.
- Quotes
Constable Kockenlocker: [to his 14-year-old daughter, gruffly but jokingly] Listen, Zipper-puss! Some day they're just gonna find your hair ribbon and an axe someplace. Nothing else! The Mystery of Morgan's Creek!
- Crazy credits[From the movie preview] The entertainment miracle....created by Hollywood's gayest wizard - Preston Sturges.
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.
- harry-76
- Nov 2, 2003
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- Sensation in Morgan's Creek
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- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1