Sullivan’s Travels

In Preston Sturges’s astute comedy, Joel McCrea’s film producer travels the US without money to embrace the themes of his next movie.

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  • Director

    Preston Sturges

  • With

    Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest

  • USA 1941. 90min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

Perhaps the most ambitious of Sturges’ best work, this fine road movie is also a terrific screwball comedy and one of Hollywood’s greatest films about filmmaking. Sullivan’s Travels is also a political work, tackling the American Depression, albeit it with the deftest of touches. It would subsequently exert a sizeable influence on the work of Joel and Ethan Coen, particularly their inventive 2000 homage, O Brother, Where Art Thou?.