An unquestionable masterpiece from Sturges' purple period with comedy that is broad, blasphemous and funny as all hell.

Trudy Kockenlocker (a manipulative but sweet Hutton), the daughter of a widowed small-town police constable (a put-upon Demarest) with a soft spot for men in uniform wakes one morning after a wild farewell party for her country's servicemen, to find herself married and pregnant. She has no recollection of who to or how. Enter lovesick tool Norval Jones (a brilliantly gormless Bracken), only too eager to help the woman he's carried a torch for over the years.

And it's breathless, knockabout stuff from here on in, the gags and pratfalls unrelenting. Make no mistake, there's nothing particularly polite here, and none of the heart-warming decency often attributed to other classic screwballs. Sturges lets it all hang out, never passes over a joke and somehow manages to sustain the pace and quality.

Excerpt from Channel 4's capsule located HERE