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11/13/07
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 28 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Synopsis: Frustrated film director Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is fed up with serving out easily digestible but ultimately meaningless chunks of comedy for the studios. He decides to set off across America to rediscover the daily lives of the Joe Lunchpails as research for his socially responsible next... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Director: Preston Sturges
Screenwriter: Preston Sturges
Producer: Paul Jones
Composer: Leo Shuken, Charles Bradshaw
Screenwriter: Preston Sturges
Producer: Paul Jones
Composer: Leo Shuken, Charles Bradshaw
Reviews
Top Critic
Sullivan's Travels is a gem, an almost serious comedy not taken entirely seriously, with wonderful dialogue, eccentric characterisations, and superlative performances throughout.
02/09/06
Top Critic
Comedy doesn't come much more classic. If you haven't seen it, it's about time you did.
01/01/00
Top Critic
It's a great comedy, with a message that works in context, the flophouses of life's downside contrasting with Hollywood's absurd hedonism.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Sturges' dialog is trenchant, has drive, possesses crispness and gets the laughs where that is desired.
06/27/07
Top Critic
A dubious proposition, but in Sturges's hands a charming one, filled out by his unparalleled sense of eccentric character.
06/27/07
...just not as funny as its choir of supporters have made it out to be.
01/08/07
Forgotten for years along with its maker, writer/director Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels has only recently enjoyed a comeback and induction into classic status.
03/07/05
Its message drags it from the front guard of Sturges's work, but it shines nonetheless.
07/08/04
The genius of this classic opening scene is that Sullivan's Travels is both screwball comedy and socially conscious melodrama — as well as a satire of socially conscious melodrama, and a serious apologetic for crowd-pleasing comedy.
09/12/03
Sullivan's Travels is one of the screen's more 'significant' films.
05/20/03
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