processes as wondrous as Houdi- ni's escape from a straitjacket.
The reckless range of Sturges's films, including The Miracle of Mor- gan's Creek (1944) and Unfaithfully Yours (1948), exhausted the screw- ball comedy form. Sturges's great works, Garis observes, "made his ca- reer the [genre's] appropriate finale." Later directors, such as Peter Bogdanovich in What's Up, Doc? (1972) or Ted Kotcheff in Switching Channels (1988), attempted, but failed, to revive the genre.
Ideologies "Infinite...