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Release Date: 1941

Cast: Torben Meyer, Jimmie Dundee, Paul Newlan, Edward Hearn, Julius Tannen, J. Farrell MacDonald, Emory Parnell, Robert Greig, Byron Foulger, Jan Buckingham, Dewey Robinson, Porter Hall ...MORE

Cast: Torben Meyer, Jimmie Dundee, Paul Newlan, Edward Hearn, Julius Tannen, J. Farrell MacDonald, Emory Parnell, Robert Greig, Byron Foulger, Jan Buckingham, Dewey Robinson, Porter Hall, Eric Blore, Billy Bletcher, Edgar Dearing, Jimmy Conlin, Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Roscoe Ates, Arthur Hoyt, Harry Tyler, Margaret Hayes, Monte Blue, Preston Sturges, Georges Renavent, William Demarest, Elsa Lanchester, Harry Hayden, Chester Conklin, Esther Howard, Al Bridge, Paul Jones, Willard Robertson, Robert Warwick, Franklin Pangborn ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Road movie, Screwball comedy, Black-and-white, Comedy, Satire, Romance Film

Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. It is a satire about a movie director, played by Joel McCrea, who longs to make a socially relevant drama, but eventually learns that comedies are his more valuable contribution to society. The film features one of Veronica Lake's first leading roles. The title is a reference to Gulliver's Travels, the famous novel by satirist Jonathan Swift about another journey of self-discovery. In 1990, Sullivan's Travels was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of... MORE

Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. It is a satire about a movie director, played by Joel McCrea, who longs to make a socially relevant drama, but eventually learns that comedies are his more valuable contribution to society. The film features one of Veronica Lake's first leading roles. The title is a reference to Gulliver's Travels, the famous novel by satirist Jonathan Swift about another journey of self-discovery. In 1990, Sullivan's Travels was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), a popular young Hollywood director fresh from a string of very profitable, but shallow comedies (e.g. Ants in Your Pants of 1939) , tells his studio boss, Mr. Lebrand (Robert Warwick), that he is dissatisfied and wants his next project to be a serious exploration of the plight of the downtrodden, to be based on the socially-conscious novel O Brother, Where Art Thou? by Sinclair Beckstein. Not surprisingly, Lebrand wants him to direct another, more lucrative comedy instead, but the idealistic LESS