Sullivan's Travels

Sullivan's Travels

  • Director: Preston Sturges
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: February 6, 1942
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Sullivans Reisen
  • "Sullivan's Travels" is a comedy produced by Paramount Pictures, Inc.Directed and starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake .
    The film tells the story of a comedy film director who intends to go the right way and make a serious social problem drama. So he dressed as a tramp and went deep into the folks to experience the suffering of the common people and experience the stories triggered by life. The film was released in the United States in December 1941. 
    The film was selected by AFI as the 39th place in AFI's 100-year 100 Comedy Movies. 

    Details

    • Release date February 6, 1942
    • Filming locations Paramount Ranch - 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, California, USA
    • Production companies Paramount Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $689,665 (estimated)

    Gross worldwide

    $10,249

    Movie reviews

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    • By Blaze 2022-01-12 08:01:08

      Irony, over and over

      7.4

      Among the 1940s genre films, this one should be the most remake at this point in time. What I envisioned is that the director of the 93rd Academy winner moved into the van and started to travel west from Nevada to explore what kind of movie the modern nomads at the bottom look forward to—it’s not "Thor 3", right?

      I totally think it was a tragedy in the end, but I think it is extremely accurate. Why? Parallax creates barriers...

    • By Lukas 2022-01-12 08:01:08

      "Sullivan's Travels": Happiness is the greatest wealth of poverty (AFI100 TOP 061)

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      Sullivan's Travels (1941) is

      another Hollywood "Golden Age" Movie, I like it!

      The film tells a story triggered by a director in order to experience life. The actor is a well-known Hollywood comedy film director. He is tired of shooting comedies and wants to make a...

    • By Kianna 2022-01-12 08:01:08

      Only a madman can make a good comedy

      After watching this film, I really want to have a big hug with the old Sturges who has already entered the soil. This is a sincere and warm embrace among comedy fans.

      From Qi Sidong to Liu Bieqian, and Disney, in this movie, Si Tekis paid his highest respect to these great people who used to spare no effort to make people laugh. Then count mine, I really love you. Anyway, thank you for making me laugh.

      This world always makes me laugh. People are so boring and depressed....

    • By Waylon 2022-01-12 08:01:08

      People can only be bystanders to others

      The film I found for a long time, but there is no surprise.
      As a 41-year-old thing, and because the film carries too much, there is no reason to be too critical.
      It's just that the divergence and unsmoothness in the plot are too obvious, and the obvious climax formed by preventing it from advancing, makes a lot of room for chewing in terms of charm.
      But through the director’s travel experience, the truth is right. The people don’t really need realism too much. Their lives are...

    • By Eldora 2022-01-12 08:01:08

      Fun

      A Hollywood director's journey to experience the lower life. Encountering a beautiful woman (of cause!) is a young actor who has no desire to travel with her. The almost slapstick trip finally made these two spoiled people give up experiencing life. At this time, Sullivan was involved in a murder attempt and was sent to jail as a coolie. Without gimmicks and support, he could finally experience him. The so-called life, found that life does not need to be complicated and profound, and sometimes...

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    • By Henderson 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      In the first half, I always feel that there are rich people who have money and no land to spend. I always feel that I have to experience the life of the poor. The second half is self-inflicted. Finally, he learned that movies don't need to be too complicated, just...

    • By Alexa 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      Instead of holding a 2B microphone that supports all your dignity and asking migrant workers, "Are you happy?", it's better to take a broken bowl that pays for all your life, squat on the side of the road, stay for a week, and you will find your self-righteousness What an idiot, you don't know what's going on, but you talk about it, so your microphone is not as good as a broken...

    • By Clementine 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      I seem to have an indescribable affection for black and white. It's an absurd journey, and you seem to be able to see locomotives spewing black clouds of smoke all over the North American continent of the 1940s. Sullivan's vague epiphany was finally drowned out in unbridled...

    • By Conner 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      The last 20 minutes were more exciting than I could have imagined! It can be seen as a tribute to the art of...

    • By Antwon 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      die laughing. Love the beautiful blonde hair of the mistress. The lines are sharp and spoken as fast as a machine gun. In fact, there is a truth. The poor love comedies and do not like hard work, because life is hard enough. The hard-pressed film was made for rich people in brocade clothes and jade food to sigh and...

    Movie plot

    Sullivan is a young Hollywood director film ( played by Joel McCrea ) that is popular with comedy , but he is dissatisfied with the status quo and wants to make his next work a serious theme reflecting the plight of the bottom of society. In order to experience life at the bottom, he dressed as a penniless tramp and went to the people, but no matter how he tried, he always returned to Hollywood in the end.
    Later, he met an actress...
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    Movie quotes

    • John L. Sullivan: [after Burrows has left] He gets a little bit gruesome every once in a while.

      Sullivan's Valet: Yeah. Always reading books, sir.

    • John L. Sullivan: You can't tell what kind of heel is apt to be behind the wheel.

      The Girl: All heels are pretty much the same.

    • Policeman at Beverly Hills station: Are you sure this is Sullivan?

      Sullivan's Valet: Oh, quite, sir.

      Policeman at Beverly Hills station: What are you doing in these clothes?

      John L. Sullivan: [Sullivan is wearing rags from a studio wardrobe] I just paid my income tax.