Yesterday was Tuesday. I like Tuesdays for the simple fact that I don't have to go to school and I have the house to myself from about 11:30am on. I can watch movies I enjoy, instead of trying to sit through some childish flick that has little to no emotional connection with me.
Being alone, I threw on The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, yet another film by one of the funniest filmmakers of all time, Preston Sturges. While The Lady Eve might well be Sturges best film (and my personal favourite comedy), Morgan's Creek is a close second. With razor sharp dialogue, incredibly talented physical actors, and the undercurrents of blasphemy and risque subject matyer, Sturges constructs a tightly wound plot about the spontenous marriage of Trudy Kockenlocker (how did Sturges get this name by the censors?) to an unnamed G.I. After a farewell party for the boys, Trudy returns home with a curtian ring on her finger and the faint recollection of a wedding. Soon after, Trudy discovers that she's pregnant! Facing disgracement she attempts to marry Norville Jones, a local banker who's been in love with Trudy since they were kids. Realizing that Norville really does love her, and that she truly loves him, Trudy can't agree to the match - "It's bigamy!" Without the marriage certificate from the first wedding, Trudy can't have that union annulled, so she and Norville get married with him posing as the first husband. When he accidently signs his real name in the register, he's arrested for impersonating an officier, contributing to the moral deliquiency of a minor and a slew of other charges. He escapes (relucantly) and Trudy and her family move from town to avoid disgrace (remember, this is the 40s). When Trudy does have the children (yes, children), the whole marriage issue is resolved with a gubernially gesture. Hilarious!

As I've commented before about Sturges' films, what makes Morgan's Creek shine is the cast of secondary characters - Trudy's sister, the town lawyer, the banker. Far and away the best of these characters is William Demarest as Trudy's single, putupon father. With physical comedy equal to Eddie Bracken's, a rough, loud demeanor, Demarest is perfect and, unlike in other Sturges films, properly utilized.