And here, in our Film of the Week, written and directed by that master of screwball comedies, Preston Sturges, is my choice for the finest of them all, a comedy that treads as close to tragedy as you can get, but that is finally filled with warm humanity, plain good sense, and joy: Sullivan’s Travels.
John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea, dead-on perfect for th…
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