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starring: Eric Blore, William Demarest, Byron Foulger, Robert Greig, Porter Hall See Larger Image Used Price: $3.30 Collectible Price: $14.98 Third Party New Price: $12.95 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301232296 Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6301232291 Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Release Date: March 01, 1992 Running Time: 90 minutes Sales Rank: 1248 Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: 1941-12 Related Items: The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection It Happened One Night Nashville Intolerance The Philadelphia Story see more Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: Writer-director Preston Sturges's third feature, 1941's Sullivan's Travels, remains the antic auteur's most ambitious screen effort. Having added the producer's stripe to his duties, Sturges combines breezy romantic comedy, arch Hollywood satire, and social essay into a single, screwball story line. The titular pilgrim is John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), an Ivy League grad who's enjoyed a meteoric rise as the director behind escapist movies like Ants in Your Pants of 1938, but is now determined to raise his sights toward more exalted, serious-minded cinematic art. His proposed breakthrough, portentously titled O Brother, Where Art Thou?, elicits a studio response closer to 'Oh, brother,' given the director's utter lack of first-hand experience on the wrong side of the tracks. Instead of capitulating, Sullivan sets off disguised as a tramp, ready to meet life's crueler lessons face-to-face--albeit followed at a discreet distance by a motor home filled with studio handlers and reporters. His ludicrous odyssey may give the boy director no real insight, but it gives Sturges the chance to inject some reliably fine gags and a romantic subplot featuring the luminous Veronica Lake. It's at this juncture that Sturges the writer's darker objective throws a jolting shift in tone. Suffice it to say that just when a comic, upbeat denouement seems imminent, Sullivan travels instead from the sunlit California of the comedy's early reels toward a darker, relentlessly downbeat world influenced more by the social realism of the movies the hero desperately wants to make. By the final reel, Sturges has flirted with real tragedy, turning his conclusion into a meditation on his own seemingly carefree, dizzily comic art. --Sam Sutherland Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Great Film by Great Film Director! This is a wonderful film which was the basis for O'Brother, Where Art Thou? by the Coen Brothers years later. A wealthy film director decides that his comedies are trivial and he must make an "important" film about the lowest classes in the United States. He poses as a hobo and travels California to get to know the lowest classes, at one point meeting Veronica Lake. His lark takes a turn towards reality when he loses his money and ID and ends up truly living the life of a hobo including time on ... Read More Rating: - Farce, Satire, and Despair: An Unexpected and Remarkable Film Preston Sturges (1898-1959) had a long career, but he was on a roll in the early 1940s, and he is best recalled for the handful of films he created between about 1940 and 1944. Among these is SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS, which combined broad comedy with stark drama to create an unexpectedly dark satire. Although some critics admired it, the film was not widely popular at the time; today, however, many consider it his masterpiece. The film begins as a wickedly funny poke at Hollywood. Sullivan ... Read More Rating: - Laughter is the Best Medicine There was a period during the 1940's when everything Preston Sturges touched was wildly successful with both critics and the public. His films were comedies, and in Sullivan's Travels he found a way to show the importance of laughter in the lives of Americans by showing a director's journey as he sets out to do something more important than make comedies. Joel McCrea portrays a very successful Hollywood director who has become rich and famous for making lowbrow comedies. Despite his tremendous ... Read More Rating: - I didn't care for it. I watch movies for entertainment and I did not find this movie that entertaining. Yes, I'm sure it made a big social statement when it originally came out in 1941 about the realities of prison life and the hard times just coming out of the depression but like I said, I don't watch movies for social statements. It's supposed to be a comedy but I didn't find too much funny with it. Sure there are some good scenes but in my opinion not many. I love other Preston Sturges comedies but not this one. The quality of ... Read More Rating: - Absolutely awesome. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1942) Sullivan's Travels is one of the movies I'd never heard of before I started compiling critics' thousand-best lists, but that kept cropping up time after time (of the nine lists I have collected, it appears on seven, including Jonathan Rosenbaum's, the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? list, and Peter Travers' Rolling Stone list).With so many voices behind it, I figured that when I sat down to watch this monster list of movies, I should put this one up near ... 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