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...Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Paramount) is a little like taking a nun on a roller coaster. Its ordinary enough subject -the difficulties of a small-town girl, pregnant, without a husband-is treated with the catnip giddiness to be expected from Writer-Director Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve). The overall result is one of the most violently funny comedies, one of the most original, vigorous and cheerfully outrageous moving pictures that ever came out of Hollywood. The picture also has its faults-both as fun and as cinema...
That salute is characteristic of Preston Sturges' treatment of a theme which might more normally interest Theodore Dreiser or some true-confessions Dumas. Sturges, like René Clair, has always understood the liberating power of blending comedy and realism, wild farce and cool intellect. But the best of the domestic and anarchic satire cannot be suggested on paper; it is too thoroughly cinematic. It reaches its perfection in William Demarest, whose performance is one of the few solid-gold pieces of screen acting in recent years. But chief credit for The Miracle must go to Sturges, who has given...
...Five wives of former Presidents are still living: Mrs. Thomas Jex Preston (the former Mrs. Grover Cleveland), 79, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, 85, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, 82, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson (his second wife), 71, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge...
...gave a vast, fresh native energy to the ancient traditions of clowning. They also made the law laughable and legs lucrative, were a training course for half the biggest stars of the '20s, and the source and schoolroom for the comedies of Rene Clair, the brilliant experiments of Preston Sturges...
...Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bondix; Richard Conte, and Anthony Quinn are starred, but none of them stands out from the rest of the Marines. We just get the impression of a lot of men doing what they're told, and going through hell to do it--no heroics, no triumphing over insuperable odds...