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“The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek.” MCA. $59.95. The fact that Preston Sturges pulled this one off in 1944 is astonishing. Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), a bouncing small-town blonde of irrepressible high spirits, finds her honor at stake when she is impregnated during a drunken USO bash by a soldier she remembers only dimly as “Private Ratsy-Watsky.” Into the breach leaps Trudy’s longtime adorer, 4-F Norval (Eddie Bracken), who quickly sinks with her into a hell of mishap, mayhem, humiliation and disgrace--only to be rescued by the wildest deus ex machina ever. “Miracle” is one of Sturges’ blackest, funniest thrusts at the conventional pieties, yet it’s sweet-tempered enough to applaud Norval’s inept nobility. The characters take on furious, appalling life--especially Trudy, Norval, the majestically demented Constable Kockenlocker (William Demarest) and his smarty-pants younger daughter (Diana Lynn), the apoplexy of his eye. Information: (818) 777-4315. ****