Sullivan's travels

Sullivan's travels

Blu-ray - 2015

A Hollywood director wants to abandon comedies and make serious films. In order to feed his creative flame, he travels onto the street disguised as a hobo in order to endure real hardship.

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Subjects
Motion picture producers and directors > Drama.
Motion pictures > Production and direction > Drama.
Prisons > Drama.
Blu-ray discs.
Feature films.
Action and adventure films.
Comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Feature films
Action and adventure films
Comedy films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection c2015.
Language
English
Other Authors
Preston Sturges (film director)
Edition
Blu-ray special edition ; Blu-ray edition ; full screen
Item Description
Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Originally released as a motion picture in 1941.
Special features: Audo commentary fro 2001 by filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Kenneth Bowser, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean; Preston Sturges: the rise and fall of an American dreamer (1990), a 76-minute documentary made by Bowser for PBS's American Masteries series; New video essay by film critic David Cairns, featuring filmmaker Bill Forsyth; Interview from 2001 with Sandy Sturges, the director's; Interview with Sturges by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper from 1951; Archive audio recordings of Sturges; Plus: an essay by critic Stuart Klawans.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
Requires Blu-ray player.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Production Credits
Director of photography, John Seitz ; music, Sigmund Krumgold, Leo Shuken, Charles Bradshaw ; editor, Stuart Gilmore.
ISBN
9781604659740
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Screenwriter and filmmaker Sturges (1898-1959), director of The Lady Eve (1941), Unfaithfully Yours (1948), and The Great McGinty (1940), among many other films, made his mark in comedy-in particular the screwball variety, a subgenre taken to absurd extremes in Palm Beach (1942). An otherwise happily married couple, Tom (Joel McCrea) and Gerry (Claudette Colbert), split up over financial woes, with subsequent romantic complications including a rich suitor (Rudy Vallee) vying for Gerry's affections, that are resolved in a ridiculous finale. Some clever repartee helps to make up for the contrived scenario. Less screwball humor and more sly satire add up to a better mix in the preferable Travels (1941). McCrea again stars, this time as a Hollywood director tired of making hit comedies. Posing as a hobo, he rides the rails to familiarize himself with the down-and-outers in Depression-era America, in preparation for a socially relevant "serious" picture. Along the way, he encounters the obligatory romantic interest (Veronica Lake) while learning a valuable lesson about what even poor moviegoers really want to see. VERDICT Digitally spruced up and chock-full of informative extras, this pair fairly represent the Sturges oeuvre. Travels takes the road less pot-holed; Palm Beach requires an acquired taste for the madcap.-Jeff T. Dick, Davenport, IA © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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