Sturges takes on small town Americana with a lot more affection that he's given credit for. William Demarest is crusty but loves his girls who have grown up smart and independent. Well, smart-ish.
Betty Hutton is wonderful as the sassy Trudy who gets drunk and impregnated by an unknown soldier. Diana Lynn is hilarious as her boogie-woogie playing wisecracking sister. Eddie Bracken's nerdiness is fun - he's an unsexy Sturges nerd, like Rudy Vallee in The Palm Beach Story.
Pace drops around the two thirds mark but picks up. The ending is a deux ex machina but perhaps the greatest in cinematic history.
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