Here is James Agee on this hilarious comedy: "The essential story is hardly what you would expect to see on an American screen. A volcanically burgeoning small-town girl (Betty Hutton) gets drunk and is impregnated by one of several soldiers, she can't remember which. Her father (Willam Demarest), her younger sister (Diana Lynn) and her devoted 4-F lover (Eddie Bracken) do all they can to help her out. The result is a shambles, from which they are delivered by a 'miracle' which entails its own cynical comments on the sanctity of law, order, parenthood and the American home-to say nothing of a number of cherished pseudo-folk beliefs about bright-lipped youth, childhood sweethearts, Mister Right, and the glamour of war. Sturges tells his story according to a sound principle which has been neglected in Hollywood-except by him-for a long time. In proportion to the insanity and repressiveness of the age you live in, play the age as comedy if you want to get away with it." (from a 1944 review)