The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

The people of the 1940s were apparently stark mad.  We just watched a movie from then called the Miracle of Morgan’s Creek.  The first half is slow and trying to be comic about something that doesn’t really seem comic: the distaff-half of a pair of quasi-sweethearts from a small town gets in trouble (pregnant) and is also probably married to a soldier but she doesn’t know who and has no proof.  T here is an obvious romcom direction for the plot to go but it doesn’t, hoo boy, it doesn’t, and the second half of the movie just rips the top off and goes wild, one insanity piling on top of insanity until the  big insane denouement.  You end up laughing a ton mostly because it is pretty funny but also partly from hysteria.

With my fatherly hat on,   I Do Not Approve of the film for what its worth.  Golly, what a thing.