Sullivans Travels (1941)

Editor's Note 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 film, O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? Giving up all his unnecessaries, he begins his cross-country road trip in hobo's clothes with barely a dime in his pocket to regain his focus.

	Robert Warwick
	Veronica Lake
	Margaret Hayes
	William Demarest
	Byron Foulger
	Joel McCrea
	Franklin Pangborn
	Porter Hall
	Hans Dreier - Production Designer
	John F. Seitz - Director of Photography
	Stuart Gilmore - Editor
	Paul Jones - Producer
	Earl Hedrick - Art Director
	Leo Shuken - Composer
	Charles Bradshaw - Composer
	Preston Sturges - Screenwriter
	Preston Sturges - Director

"There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that's all some people have?"----John Lloyd Sullivan (Joel McCrea)

Total Film
"...Superbly played and paced, and features a gallery of eccentric supporting characters..." 06/01/2000 p.94

USA Today
"...One of the most brilliant screen mixes of comedy and drama in history..." 08/24/2001 p.4E

Entertainment Weekly
"...Its endlessly fertile and still-influential fusion of satire, screwball comedy, drama and slapstick remains tartly fresh..." 11/09/2001 p.53

Uncut
"Cramming a hundred ideas and a dozen genres -- screwball, road movie, thriller, musical -- into a package that moves like a runaway train..." 05/01/2005 p.144

Sight and Sound
"[A] superbly crafted comedy." 06/01/2005 p.87