Four-Star Films : ‘The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek’
Working in the midst of wartime (1944), Preston Sturges savagely mocks super-patriotism, motherhood, the police, politics and journalism, with dead-on accuracy and hysterically knockabout wit that have rarely been matched. It’s about small-town USO girl Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton, pictured), who’s been impregnated by the elusive “Private Ratsky-Watsky,” and the endless complications that ensue when her adorer Norval (Eddie Bracken, pictured) gallantly leaps into the breach. With William Demarest--his finest hour--as Trudy’s apoplectic cop-pop (Cinemax Sunday at noon).
Other four-star films airing this week:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind / TNT, Sunday, 4:30 p.m.
Going My Way / AMC, Monday, 4:45 a.m.
Star Wars / USA, Monday, 3 p.m.
The Empire Strikes Back / USA, Monday, 5:30 p.m.
The Lady Eve / AMC, Thursday, 11:25 a.m.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) / A&E;, Friday, 2 a.m.
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