(Preston Sturges, US 1944, 99 min.)

Smitten by men in uniform, small-town girl Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) gets drunk at a soldier’s ball. When she wakes up she’s not only married to someone she can’t remember who’s now on his way overseas, but she’s pregnant to boot. Writer/director Preston Sturges, perhaps Hollywood’s greatest satirist, deals scathingly with the hypocrisies of soldier worship and Norman Rockwell America in his most no-holds-barred picture. Sturges regulars Eddie Bracken and William Demarest also star.