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- Sullivan's Travels is still as brilliant and funny today as it was back in the early '40s, when Sturges was the toast of Tinseltown, praised as its premier satirist and crafter of social comedies.
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Sullivan's Travels received disparate critical reception upon its release. The New York Times described it as "the most brilliant picture yet this year", praising Sturges's mix of escapist fun with underlying significance, and ranked it as one of the ten best films of 1941.
Apr 14, 2015 · One of the most striking aspects of Sullivan's Travels, in fact, is the shortfall of the vulgar clowning that the film sets out to defend, contrasted with the continuing astonishment of Sturges's comic banter, the ongoing vibrancy of his crowd scenes (the stock company remains hilarious when pushed into close quarters, so long as they're ...
Apr 16, 2015 · Chris Robé. / 16 April 2015. “After I saw a couple of pictures put out by some of my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan’s...
Jan 1, 2014 · Sullivan's Travels is still as brilliant and funny today as it was back in the early '40s, when Sturges was the toast of Tinseltown, praised as its premier satirist and crafter of social...
Apr 28, 2022 · For long stretches Sullivan’s Travels is silent. For a filmmaker as innately funny as Sturges, deliberately choosing to forego laughter is a bold choice that pays huge dividends. In Sullivan’s Travels Sturges puts tremendous faith in the power of images. Sturges was a peerless curator of faces.
Aug 20, 2001 · By Todd McCarthy. Aug 20, 2001. The sweetest, most generous-hearted satire of the Hollywood film industry the town has ever produced, Sullivan’s Travels was the fourth of the eight films Preston Sturges made during his astonishingly prolific streak between 1940 and 1944.
Aug 9, 2014 · Though the message is fine (“lose lips sink ships”) it’s still a somewhat unintentionally funny propaganda film, just a teeny bit over the top. As pointed out in the description in the booklet, though, it offers an early view to some of the staple Sturges elements that would appear in his films.
