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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 Screwball Comedy from Preston Sturges, set in the epomymous small town during World War II.Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), daughter of the town constable (William Demarest), sneaks out against her father's wishes to a dance for the soldiers, using a date with Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken) as an excuse. While she doesn't quite remember what happens that night – except that she thinks she got married to a soldier (named, or so she thinks, "Ratzkywatzky") – she subsequently learns that, as a result of the night's activities, she is pregnant. Her younger sister Emmy (Diana Lynn) convinces her to trick Norval into marrying her. Trudy can't quite bring herself to do it – especially after she sees Norval's reaction to the happy news – but Norval ends up wanting to marry her anyway. Because this is a Preston Sturges movie, Hilarity Ensues.Despite the fact this its release was delayed for nearly two years due to censorship issues with The Hays Code, this film remains one of the most adroit examples of censorship subversion ever made. |
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Instantly Proven Wrong |
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Instantly Proven Wrong: The Epic Fail when Norval breaks into the bank. |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Let's see now; a woman gets pregnant without any idea how she did, her boyfriend wants to leave her but is later convinced to marry her, they're eventually forced out of polite society, and she ends up in a house with a barn during Christmas season when she's finally about to give birth. Also, the fact Trudy has six babies is a loose reference to the Dionne Quintuplets. Lampshaded by the headline "Canada Protests: 'Possible but not Probable' says Premier". Trudy's father mentions that Jesus was born "in a cowshed" and then we see that there's a cow in the house. |
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Title Drop: Partially. The father calls the incident "The mystery of Morgan's Creek" when hearing of his daughter's pregnancy. Little does he know of the upcoming miracle. |
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The Cameo |
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The Cameo: Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff reprise their roles from The Great McGinty as McGinty and The Boss.note As you can see above, the poster spoiled it. There's also a Continuity Nod when The Boss repeats a gag from the earlier film. This causes a Continuity Snarl, as McGinty and The Boss had fled to Latin America at the end of their film. |
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Green-Eyed Monster |
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Green-Eyed Monster: Norval doesn't qualify for the army because every time he goes in for an interview, he gets nervous and excited, he starts to see spots, and his blood pressure gets too high. So he's jealous of all of the soldiers, especially about the fact Trudy seems more interested in them than him. |
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Papa Wolf |
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Papa Wolf: Constable Kockenlocker, though his daughters are normally able to get around that. |
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Framing Device |
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Framing Device: The film starts with the editor of the local paper calling Governor McGinty to tell him the story, and it ends up being a flashback to what happened. |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction: Norval when talking to his mother on the porch: |
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What Did I Do Last Night? |
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What Did I Do Last Night?: Trudy only has a vague memory of the night before where she may (or may not) have gotten married to a soldier who may (or may not) have been named "Ratzkywatzky". |
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Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee |
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Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee: The father desperately imposes this trope on Norval to help him escape from his prison cell but the latter doesn't seem to comprehend. |
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Lampshade Hanging |
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Also, the fact Trudy has six babies is a loose reference to the Dionne Quintuplets. Lampshaded by the headline "Canada Protests: 'Possible but not Probable' says Premier". |
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Bad Liar |
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Bad Liar: Norval, and his stutter only makes it worse. |
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First-Person Peripheral Narrator |
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First-Person Peripheral Narrator: The local newspaper editor is the one who tells the story to The Governor and The Boss, yet in the flashbacks, we only see him a couple of times; when Norval is arrested and brought back to the Kockenlocker house, and once in the hospital waiting room. Justified, however, in that it's likely Emmy told him the whole story in the hospital waiting room, so he was able to tell that to the Governor. |
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Patient Childhood Love Interest |
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Patient Childhood Love Interest: Norval and Trudy are childhood friends and at one point Norval confesses that he was always in love with her but couldn't spit it out all this time. |
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Delayed Reaction |
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Delayed Reaction: The father's delayed surprise reaction when Trudy mentions her pregnancy. |
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Fainting |
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Fainting: Papa Kockenlocker faints when hearing about his six grand sons. |
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Wham Line |
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Wham Line: A rare funny example: "Six; all boys!" |
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Wise Beyond Their Years |
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Wise Beyond Their Years: Emmy. She's the one who comes up with the plan to marry Norval. |
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I Have This Friend |
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I Have This Friend: When Emmy and Trudy go to see Mr. Johnson, the town lawyer, they use this. Because they're more vague than most people who use this trope are, he doesn't see through the ruse. Later, when they're walking home, Emmy insists on using this trope when talking to Trudy because it makes things easier to discuss. |
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Little Miss Snarker |
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Little Miss Snarker: Emmy is 14 years old and almost every line she delivers is snarky |
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Spinning Paper |
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Spinning Paper: The reactions from around the country, and the world, to the "miracle", including from Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. |
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Give the Baby a Father |
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Give the Baby a Father: Central theme. Norval saves Trudy's name by posing as the actual father. |
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Spit Take |
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Spit Take: A variation; the Governor drops his cigarette on his lap when he hears what the "miracle" is. |
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Pre-emptive Declaration |
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Pre-emptive Declaration: On the porch with her father, Emmy mentions that she heard a police siren. The father notes that there are no sirens in town. Seconds later, her prediction comes true as a convoy delivers Trudy and Norval to their doorstops. |
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Cannot Spit It Out |
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Cannot Spit It Out: Well, Norval can say it, but because of his Speech Impediment, it just takes him a while. |
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Serious Business |
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Serious Business: The birth of the sextuplets literally changes the course of WWII. |
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Real Men Wear Pink |
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Real Men Wear Pink: Constable Kockenlocker may act rough with everybody, but he also wears an apron. |
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ShoutOutToShakespeare |
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Shout-Out to Shakespeare: The title card at the end quotes Twelfth Night: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." |
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Rapid-Fire Comedy |
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Rapid-Fire Comedy: Particularly at the beginning and the end. |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Norval gets the idea of pretending to be "Ratzkywatzky", dressing up as a soldier, and driving to an out-of-way town with Trudy so she can have a marriage license that says she's married, and therefore will be spared the shame of being an unwed mother. So what happens? The marriage goes through without a hitch, but instead of signing Ratzkywatzky's name, he signs his own name, which gets him and Trudy in trouble. |
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Speech Impediment |
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Speech Impediment: Norval has a pretty bad one. |
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Double Take |
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Double Take: Norval does several of them when Trudy lets him know she wants him to marry her and why. |
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Foreshadowing |
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Foreshadowing: Right before Trudy tricks him into taking his car to go out, Norval proudly declares that he almost wishes Trudy was in trouble so he could get her out of it. He has no idea. |
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Continuity Nod |
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There's also a Continuity Nod when The Boss repeats a gag from the earlier film. |
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Oh, Crap! |
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Oh, Crap!: Trudy and Emmy when they see the wedding ring on Trudy's hand. |
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Accidental Marriage |
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Accidental Marriage: Trudy gets married in a fit of intoxication. She cannot remember the details the next day. |
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Be Careful What You Wish For |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Early on in the movie, Norval says to Trudy, "I almost wish you were in serious trouble, so I could help you out." Oh, Norval. |
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Take That! |
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Take That!: The Hays Code wouldn't allow Sturges to portray Trudy getting drunk. His solution? Have her drink what looks like lemonade, then have her hit her head, so she'd be acting drunk and completely forget about critical details of what happens to her that night. Trudy also acts indignant every time someone asks her if she was drunk the previous night, claiming she never gets drunk. |
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Good-Times Montage |
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Good-Times Montage: Trudy at the various dances (strung together with her and the soldiers singing "Row, Row Your Boat" as they drive from place to place), right up until she "hits her head". |
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Too Many Babies |
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Too Many Babies: Trudy giving birth to sextuplets. |
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Jurisdiction Friction |
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Jurisdiction Friction: The army, the state police, and the federal police all want to arrest Norval after his failed attempt at marrying Trudy (see Nice Job Breaking It, Hero below). |
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Surprise Multiple Birth |
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Surprise Multiple Birth: The titular miracle of the film turns out to be sextuplet boys. |
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Unusual Euphemism |
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Unusual Euphemism: Trudy refers to being drunk as being "swiffled". |
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Who's Your Daddy? |
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Who's Your Daddy?: Trudy just can't remember who the father of her babies is. |
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Continuity Snarl |
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This causes a Continuity Snarl, as McGinty and The Boss had fled to Latin America at the end of their film. |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The German Spinning Paper sports wrong grammar in the head line. Also Hitler's speech is pseudo-Germanic gibberish. |
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Insistent Terminology |
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Insistent Terminology: See the quote at the top of the page. |
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Law of Inverse Fertility |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Trudy gets pregnant via one night stand. |
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Earn Your Happy Ending |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Norval starts out as the Dogged Nice Guy and has to go through some hardship to finally get his happy ending with Trudy. |
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Running Gag |
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Running Gag: "Shut up! Not you!" "Retroactive!" "The SPOTS!" Whenever Emmy says something to annoy her father, he tries to kick her, but ends up slipping and falling instead. |
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