A full-blooded thesis deriding the boring message film.
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08/09/02
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:29
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Director: Preston Sturges
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Reviews for Sullivan's Travels
It’s no wonder that the film remains hugely influential to this day.
03/05/02
I was impressed by the almost self-referential nature.
02/28/02
...it ends up coming down solidly on the side of laughs (thanks to writer/director Preston Sturges), beauty (thanks to Veronica Lake) and self-effacing modesty (thanks to Joel McCrea).
11/06/01
...a search for the director’s meaning in his work and a reassuring statement about Sturges’s own understanding of his art.
09/17/01
A work of great depth and humanity that also happens to be very funny.
08/16/01
...everything in this wonderful film works. And it presents a spectacular array of emotions and situations that allow for Sturges's magical direction and script to quickly turn all the film's sharp corners with his characters.
01/01/00
Comedy doesn't come much more classic. If you haven't seen it, it's about time you did.
01/01/00
The film may have been something of a manifesto for Sturges, whose own specialty was smart, meaningful pictures, naturally -- the ones that make people laugh.
01/01/00
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
Sullivan's Travels (1941) is generally considered one of writer/director Preston Sturges' greatest dramatic comedies - and a satirical statement of his own director's creed.
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