Sullivans Travels

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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 he takes to the road as a hobo with a single dime in his pocket. A serious comedy, if you will.

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Audio commentary by Terry Jones.

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Article - "Preston Sturges" by David Parkinson
Friday 1st April 2005

Few film-makers have struck a patch as purple as the one that Preston Sturges enjoyed between 1940 and 1944. The pictures he produced in this period have become the benchmark for US screen comedy and provide the link between the sophisticated conceits of Ernst Lubits...  View article in full

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