This is the story of two men who met in a banana republic. One of them never did anything dishonest in his life except for one crazy minute. The other never did anything honest in his life except for one crazy minute.

Sturges said "It's taken me eight years to reach what I wanted. So I left. That the invariable fairy godfather of each picture is not only expressive of his own cold-blooded cynicism but of typical Hollywood fantasy is an example of how this works.

See for example the disruption of standardized timelines in films such as The Power and the Glory and The Great McGinty or the way an apparently classical comedy such as Unfaithfully Yours (1948) shifts into the realm of multiple and hypothetical narratives. Preston Sturges (August 29 1898 – August 6 1959) originally Edmund Preston Biden was an American playwright screenwriter and film director born in Chicago Illinois. W.