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Movie Overview
Cast
Joel McCrea
Veronica Lake
Robert Warwick
Director
Preston Sturges
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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3.5/5
"...just not as funny as its choir of supporters have made it out to be."
Filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti
B+
"A delicious tragi-comedy set during the Great Depression."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
4/4
"A work of great depth and humanity that also happens to be very funny."
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
3.5/4
"It’s no wonder that the film remains hugely influential to this day."
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
8/10
"...a search for the director’s meaning in his work and a reassuring statement about Sturges’s own understanding of his art."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
3.5/5
"I was impressed by the almost self-referential nature."
Goatdog's Movies
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
5/5
"Not remotely a defense of junk, but it does respect comedy as a force for escapism."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
A
"It is, quite simply, a dazzling piece of filmmaking."
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
A
"The genius of this classic opening scene is that
Sullivan's Travels
is both screwball comedy and socially conscious melodrama as well as a satire of socially conscious melodrama,
and
a serious apologetic for crowd-pleasing comedy."
Decent Films Guide
Steven D. Greydanus
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