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Film · 1942 · Comedy
Sullivan's Travels
Directed by Preston Sturges
1942
★ 6.5 editorial score
Preston Sturges aimed the sharpest dialogue of his career at Hollywood itself: a director of hit comedies decides to make something serious about poverty, and goes looking for it in person.
“Sturges's America was cheerfully corrupt, absurd and frequently unaware of its own ridiculousness, and his films were so high on comic dynamism that you could readily forgive the wayward lip service to logic...in his heyday he made half a dozen comedies as subversive as any now, and a good deal funnier. "Sullivan's Travels" was probably his masterpiece.”
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