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Directed by Preston Sturges
The Coen Brothers have two main influences: you want to see where the hard-edged noir element of their work comes from, check out Howard Hawks; you want to see where they get their wordy, character-driven comedy from, you check out Preston Sturges. In fact, check out Preston Sturges irrespective of what you think about the Coens. This is as clas... show more > Recommended Films directed by Preston Sturges
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Unfaithfully Yours1948, Preston Sturges, DVD One of the slickest and funniest of Sturges's comedies in which Harrison plays an orchestra conductor who believes his wife has been having an affair. While conducting, he plans various forms of revenge played out with great precision and skill. H...
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Save £14 Sullivan's Travels1941, Preston Sturges, DVD One of Sturges's finest in which Hollywood director John Sullivan grows tired of making escapist comedies and nurses his pet project - a social problems film called 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou?' Realising he hasn't a clue about said social problems...
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Save £13 The Lady Eve1941, Preston Sturges, DVD Classic screwball battle-of-the-sexes Sturges that boasts an impeccable lead pairing of Fonda as a herpetologist Professor newly returning from studies in the Amazon and con artist Stanwyck out to get him. When he rejects her advances she disguise...
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Save £13 Written and Directed by Preston Sturges (Box Set)1940-42, Preston Sturges, DVD Seven of the best from the master of sparkling, witty movie comedies, Preston Sturges. Features Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, The Palm Beach Story and Great Moment.
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Save £22.50 The Palm Beach Story1942, Preston Sturges, DVD One of the most sparkling of movie comedies from one of the genre's finest exponents. The setup? An inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his wife, who loves him dearly, decides to raise it for him by divorcing him and marrying a million...
£9.99 Christmas In July - Universal Classics1940, Preston Sturges, DVD Sturges' second film is a delightful comedy about a hapless nobody who is tricked into believing he has won a small fortune, only to discover the truth after he gets himself into debt by (very generously) spending it.
£9.99 Hail The Conquering Hero1944, Preston Sturges, DVD Feeling a failure after being discharged from the marines before seeing action due to a hayfever condition, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays a return to his hometown. Meeting a group of Marines, they fabricate a story for him saying he ...
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Save £13 The Great McGinty (Universal Classics)1940, Preston Sturges, DVD Quirky political satire of the American political system, about an irredeemably corrupt politician, who gets his comeuppance through a single act of honesty.
£9.99 The Great Moment - Universal Classics1944, Preston Sturges, DVD Bar delightful moments of slapstick, Sturges' biopic of the Boston dentist who discovered the anaesthetic is uncharacteristically straight-faced, and oddly moving.
£9.99 The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock1947, Preston Sturges, DVD AKA Mad Wednesday. A 1920s football hero spends 20 years in business life, but after being sacked goes on a wild drinking spree, and wakes up to find himself the owner of a penniless circus. Harold Lloyd's final but by no means worst film.
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