Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Directed by Preston Sturges
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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