The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Paramount Pictures | Release Date: February 1, 1944

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86	METASCORE Universal acclaim based on 15 Critic Reviews

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TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)

Miraculously mad masterpiece. Read full review

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Michael Wilmington

One of the great, outrageously irreverent American movie comedies. [27 Sep 2005, p.C3]

Hal Hinson

The nearest thing to pandemonium ever seen on film and every minute of it is sublime. [27 Aug 1987, p.D7]

Donald Clarke

Maybe, Morgan’s Creek does not have the ironic grit of Sullivan’s Travels or the suave perfection of The Lady Eve, but, as a showcase for Sturges the comic impresario, it can hardly be bettered. Read full review

Robert Faires

This is the master of subversion's most subversive work. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Caustic and chaotic in the arch Sturges manner, it's probably his funniest and most smilingly malicious film. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

Any Preston Sturges comedy explodes American ideals, and this one mocks everything from patriotism to motherhood. [14 Jun 1998, p.1F]

IndieWireJessica Kiang

One of the most demented studio comedies of the 1940s. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

Mr. Sturges as author and director, is thoroughly up to his stinging style in this film. Situations spark, dialogue crackles and his camera works like a playful Peeping Tom. And from all of the actors he gets performances that make them look like inspired comedians. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Great verbal gags and non-sequiturs, fast-paced action, and a thorough irreverence for all things deemed respectable - politicians, policemen and magistrates included - make it a lasting delight, not least when the lady finally gives birth...to sextuplets. Read full review

EmpireDavid Parkinson

Sturges' no-holds-barred comic cristicism of American Forces abroad is still challenging and funny. Read full review

Pauline Kael

This is one of Preston Sturges's surreal-slapstick-satire-conniption-fit comedies, and part of our great crude heritage.

Ted Mahar

It's all done in perfect taste. Sturges' specialty was sophisticated films about largely unsophisticated characters, and his talent shines here. [28 Jul 1991, p.34]

Robert Bianco

This Preston Sturges classic cast Hutton as a small-town girl who gets pregnant by a soldier whose name she can't remember. No film better channels her comic energy or makes better use of her obvious yearning for acceptance. [19 Jun 2000]

Staff (Not Credited)

Done in the satirical Sturges vein, and directed with that same touch, the story makes much of characterization and somewhat wacky comedy, plus some slapstick, with excellent photography figuring throughout. Read full review