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Feb 13, 2024 · Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges.A satire on the film industry, it follows a famous Hollywood comedy director (Joel McCrea) who, longing to make a socially relevant drama, sets out to live as a tramp to gain life experience for his forthcoming film.
Sullivan's Travels: Directed by Preston Sturges. With Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest. Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Meanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his person, is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang. With its almost Shakespearean combination of uproarious comedy and grim tragedy, Sullivan's Travels is Sturges' masterpiece and one of the finest movies about movies ever made.
During the making of the film, Veronica Lake was between 6 and 8 months pregnant. Production took place from June 12 to July 22, 1941, and her daughter Elaine Detlie was born on August 21, 1941. The only other people involved in the production who knew of her condition were the costume designer Edith Head and Preston Sturges 's then-wife Louise.
Joel McCrea - John L. Sullivan. “Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study.”. Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler.
Reaching the heights of Greek Tragedy, Sullivan's Travels pulls no punches as Sturges examines reality vs. Hollywood illusion. Just a wonderful film from start to finish. McCrea and Lake had spotty careers in Hollywood. McCrea played all kinds of parts in the 30s and 40s, but never really became a top star.
