Sullivan’s Travels (1941; Dir.: Preston Sturges)

Canon Fodder Episode 25

Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedy legend Corky McDonnell review comedy legend Preston Sturges’ legendary comedy about a comedy legend who just wants to impress film critics. Sullivan’s Travels exists as a meta-resolution of its own central conundrum, a nearly perfect synergy of madcap comedy, non-didactic social commentary and even a little sex in the form of Veronica Lake. But did Daniel and Corky go along for the Travels, or are they tripping?

SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS FACTS & FIGURES

Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #243 (tied)

World premiere: Dec. 29, 1941

IMDB synopsis: “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.”

CLIPS & CLIPPINGS

Trailer for Sullivan’s Travels

“How about a nice musical?”

“Who’s Lubitsch?”

NEXT EPISODE’S MOVIE

Vampyr (1932; Dir.: Carl Theodor Dreyer)

IMDB synopsis: “A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.”

Our review of Vampyr comes out on November 6!

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