Preston Sturges achieves the perfect balance between playful and serious in his celebrated masterwork about a comedy film director (Joel McCrea) who goes on the road in search of more socially significant material for his next film, O Brother, Where Are Thou? (a title famously purloined by the Coen brothers.) McCrea is brilliant as the idealistic filmmaker and Veronica Lake is effervescent as the would-be actress who tags along.
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Preston Sturges works his magic in a screwball tale of a film director who goes on the road as a tramp to help write his socially significant screenplay.
- 1941 USA
- Directed by
- Preston Sturges
- Written by
- Preston Sturges
- Featuring
- Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick
- Running time
- 91 minutes
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