Thursday, November 20, 2008

Get Out Your Hobo Stick And Watch Sullivan's Travels

The Really: Maybe Preston Sturge's classic film is just what we need right now.

It's Sullivan's Travels and it was in a string of hits by the highest paid director/writer of his time Preston Sturges. Released in 1941 it tells the story of director John L. Sullivan who wants to make a social-problems film called 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' (get it, the Cohen brothers used it as the title of the Clooney film a few years back-ed) When his producers point out that he knows nothing about trouble or poverty, he goes on the road as a hobo. Joined by a down-on-her-luck aspiring actress, the results are hardly the kind of trouble he had in mind.

Enjoy this clip.

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