Synopsis
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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Cast
- Eddie BrackenNorval Jones
- Betty HuttonTrudy Kockenlocker
- Diana LynnEmmy Kockenlocker
- William DemarestConstable Edmund Kockenlocker
- Porter HallJacob Woodson, Justice of the Peace
- Emory ParnellMr. Tuerck
- Al BridgeMr. Johnson
- Julius TannenMr. Rafferty
- Victor PotelNewspaper Editor
- Brian DonlevyGovernor McGinty
Recommendations
- 100
TV Guide Magazine
Miraculously mad masterpiece. - 90
Washington Post
The nearest thing to pandemonium ever seen on film and every minute of it is sublime. [27 Aug 1987, p.D7] - 89
Austin Chronicle
This is the master of subversion's most subversive work. - 88
Chicago Reader
Caustic and chaotic in the arch Sturges manner, it's probably his funniest and most smilingly malicious film. - 80
The New York Times
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. - 80
Time Out
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. - 80
Empire
Sturges' no-holds-barred comic cristicism of American Forces abroad is still challenging and funny. - 75
Portland Oregonian
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]
