Four More Screenplays by Preston Sturges

by Preston Sturges and Tom Sturges

Book Overview

Includes The Palm Beach Story , Triumph over Pain/The Great Moment , The Miracle at Morgan's Creek , and Unfaithfully Yours . Humorous, sophisticated, and superbly crafted, the cinema of Preston... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520203658
• ISBN13: 9780520203655
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 983 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Preston Sturges' Screenplays

This book is a wonderful compilation of Preston Sturges' screenplays. It's very good for all who love the great director.

Three Fine Comedies and One Odd Misfire

This volume contains some of Sturges' best work, including the immortal comedy The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, together with The Palm Beach Story and Unfaithfully Yours. Five stars for The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, perhaps the funniest, most subversive movie of the 1940's. The biggest curiosity here, though, is Sturges' script for his odd dental-anesthesia biopic The Great Moment. This film was heavily altered by the studio prior to its release. Sturges' original script would probably have been a better picture, but it's hard to imagine this project succeeding in any case.

Great comedy films

Contains the screenplay for "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" (to my taste, the most hilarious film of all time). When I worked as a cataloger at Newport Public Library, I constantly told my co-workers that I thought Preston Sturges wrote better dialogue than Shakespeare. I could prune lines from "Hamlet," but I couldn't cut a single line from "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek."