“A volcanically burgeoning small-town girl gets drunk and is impregnated by one of several soldiers, she can’t remember which. Her father, her younger sister, and her devoted 4-F lover 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. . . . Sturges tells his story according to a sound principle. . . . 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” (James Agee).

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