Its title was a takeoff on the similar film title,The Philadelphia Story (1940).It was thefifthof eight films that Sturges wrote and directed for Paramount Studios between his most prolific years, from 1940 and 1946:The Great McGinty (1940)Christmas in July (1940)The Lady Eve (1941)Sullivan""s Travels (1942)The Palm Beach Story (1942)The Miracle of Morgan""s Creek (1944)Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)The Great Moment (1946)The film is literally full of choice, timeless, quotable lines of dialogue, although a portion of the film is slightly dated (the character of the black train porter).This violent death again caused shaking and convulsions hroughout Jamie""s body.In the police department, the crazed Dr.Loomis recalled the emotionless killer of the previous Halloween with Sheriff Ben Meeker (Beau Starr):"You never saw his eyes.The barriers would be down, you see, between the real and the unreal.And the dead might be looking in to sit by our fires of turf.Halloween.The festival of Samhain.The last great one took place 3,000 years ago, when the hills ran red with the blood of animals and children.They had interrogated Harry""s girlfriend Cho (with Veritaserum) and learned of its existence.When Dumbledore admitted he had instructed Harry to form the organization, he took full responsibility - and Fudge ordered him to be arrested and taken to Azkaban "to await trial for conspiracy and sedition.She protests thatsheshouldn""t always have to romance and "do all the dirty work" on their victims.The Colonel reprimands her with his dignified ""business"" creed:Don""t be vulgar, Jean.Let us be crooked, but never common.Indeed, Pike is "dripping with dough," according o their colleague Gerald (Melville Cooper), the Colonel""s valet.