Sullivan's Travels

Name: Sullivan's Travels
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: February 6, 1942
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 89

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: February 6, 1942 | Passed

Summary: 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.

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 90 min

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100

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Brooks is the one who makes the message work, the one who should have been credited and the supporting player who makes “Sullivan’s Travels” worth the journey. He’s the difference between a good film of the Depression Era, and a classic. Read full review

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

There are some marvellous supporting performances. This film comes as close as possible to a distillation of pure happiness. Read full review

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Empire Angie Errigo

Comedy doesn't come much more classic. If you haven't seen it, it's about time you did. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

A beautifully trenchant satire upon "social significance" in pictures, a stinging slap at those fellows who howl for realism on the screen and a deftly sardonic apologia for Hollywood make-believe. Read full review

Richard Brody

Sturges seems to leap out from behind the screen to address the viewer directly. Few classic filmmakers with so much to say manage to find so many splendid words to say it in. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Preston Sturges jammed volumes of sociological concerns into a 90-minute satire with Sullivan’s Travels, Hollywood’s greatest comedy. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Sturges is more at home in slapstick irony (as in The Lady Eve, earlier in '41) than in the mixed tones of this comedy-melodrama, but it's a memorable film nevertheless.

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