The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

- Hey, Doctor!

- I'm not a doctor. He's upstairs.

Hold the presses! Hold everything!

Hold it! Get me the state capital.

I've got to talk to the Governor immediately!

It's a matter of life and death.

- Hello. Mr. Governor?

- Yeah.

The editor of what? The Bugle? Yeah.

What town was that again? Morgan's Creek?

Is that in my state? Never heard of it.

You never heard of it?

By tomorrow morning,

Morgan's Creek will be...

- the most famous town in America.

- The world!

This is the last free phone in town.

Every room has been reserved...

- for 15 miles around.

- Thirty!

A 100 newspapermen are here

and 500 more are expected tomorrow.

A thousand.

- There's a shortage of food, telephones...

- Milk.

- Telegraph wires!

- Liquor.

- Transportation, policemen and everything.

- Tents.

We need a lot of help or they're going

to tear this town up by the roots.

We need state police...

- food, water, beds, blankets.

- Plumbing!

Wait a minute. Take it easy, will you?

What happened down there?

You got a flood or did you strike oil

or something?

- "Did we strike oil or something?"

- Tell him!

- No, Mr. Governor, we did not strike oil.

- Anybody can strike oil.

- We have not got a flood.

- Anybody can have a flood.

- What we've got, Mr. Governor, is...

- You got what?

- Yes, Mr. Governor.

- Shut up! Not you.

Are you sure of your facts?

This is important.

I wish I could be down there myself.

This is a matter of state policy,

state pride, national pride.

Hold the wire a minute. Get on this line,

take everything down in shorthand.

Get a map of the state.

Make sure that Morgan's Creek is in it.

If it ain't, maybe we could persuade them

to move over.

- Yes, Mr. Governor?

- Shut up! Not you.

Get me all the newspapermen.

I want to speak to the radio stations.

- What happened?

- Things like this gotta be guided.

Get right down to Morgan's Creek,

buy up a few choice corners...

some hotel sites, they'll need some.

And the bus franchises will be very valuable.

- Morgan's what?

- "Creek," like a little river.

- A little river should have a big dam.

- Why not? Give me the facts.

It's the biggest thing happening to

this state since we stole it from the Indians.

- Borrowed.

- Who's excited now?

I'll tell you all I know, Mr. Governor.

I started the whole thing.

I was writing my midweek editorial,

I was looking for a subject for it.

I'm rather famous for my editorials

in this part of the state.

He's going to tell us his life story!

And I noticed a few soldiers in the town.

- What an eye!

- What a bore!

It occurred to me

that the girls in the town...

and the soldiers around the towns would

make an excellent subject for my editorial!

All right, let's have it!

We're going to get it anyhow.

I was looking out the window

and there I saw Off. Kockenlocker...

our town constable,

directing traffic as usual.

Keep moving! Can't you see it says "Go?"

Get out of here!

We got to get some dates for that

dance tonight. You got any numbers?

Try the telephone company.

What do you think I am?

- Tough guy, huh?

- Tough enough, rookie!

Where do you get that rookie stuff?

Listen, cookie, I was in France

before you were housebroken.

Now, get off the street

and behave yourselves.

- What's all the trouble?

- There's no trouble.

I just don't like to be talked to

by rookies, that's all.

This is Mr. Kockenlocker, gentlemen,

a sergeant in the other war.

- It's all different now, Ed.

- It's all done with kindness.

Yeah. Come on, get off the street.

Quit blocking the traffic.

- Please.

- Please.

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