Sullivan’s Travels - Criterion Collection Streaming
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Sullivan’s Travels - Criterion Collection Streaming.
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Any Preston Sturges film even the lesser ones are worth watching for their swiftly dialogue and comedic sequences alone. With “Sullivan’s Travels” we fetch Sturges at the top of his game. Joel McCrea the everyman of the 40’s turns in a terrific performance as the colorful but lightweight director John Sullivan (Sully to his friends) . Sully wants to get serious pictures after a career of churning out lightweight comedies. His next project “O Brother Where Art Thou” (wittily referenced in the Cohen brothers film of the same name nearly six decades later) will be a socially conscious study at the suffering of the accepted man. The only dilemma is that Sully knows absolutely nothing about suffering or hardship. Sully decides to rough it as a hobo and discovers grand more than he wanted to about suffering. He meets “The Girl” (Veronica Lake graceful as ever) and discovers more about the world than he ever imagined.
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Sturges fell into drama when he became ill and read about creating dramas while recooperating. His first major play “Strictly Dishonorable” became a vast Broadway hit in the 30’s. As a child Sturges’ mother became “friends” with Isadora Duncan and Sturges was dragged around with the two of them and had a very unconvetional upbringing nicely profiled in the recent PBS Emmy winning documentary “Preston Sturges: The Rise and Drop of an American Dreamer”. “The Power and the Glory” Sturges first written screenplay earned him over $17,000 in the 30’s against the profits of the film by producer Jesse Lasky. Sturges already had made enemies in Hollywood by becoming wildly successful as an independent writer and later director. Featuring interviews with friends and Sturges’ last widow, vintage footage, stills & footage from his productions and home movies of Sturges, Kenneth Bowser’s suited documentary provides insight into Sturges’ career as a writer and film director.
There’s also storyboards, blueprints for the sets, fresh publicity materials, the recent theatrical trailer, a Hedda Hopper interview with Struges, recordings of Struges’ unusual song “My Fancy” and poem “If I Were King”, this is one of the best Criterion releases out there. The image quality on the disc in this modern digital transfer is pretty looking. While the designate is a bit steep, this terrific DVD is well worth it
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After a string of B-movies, legendary frosty babe, Veronica Lake graduated to the gargantuan time in this screwball message record by director, Preston Sturges. Actor, Joel McCrea is John L. Sullivan, a director of frothy film comedies who desires to execute a truly gritty motion describe about the “suffering of humanity”. One jam - he doesn’t know the first thing about suffrage, having been born with a silver spoon and thrust into a lucrative career with money to burn. So what’s a desperate rich guy to do? He decides to impersonate a hobo and breeze the rails in search of ‘real’ life. He finds Veronica Lake and a heap of exertion instead.
For once - a Criterion disc I can actually recommend on every level. First, the DVD quality of this classic film is bar none the most outstanding anxiety from Criterion thus far. The gray scale is superbly balanced. Blacks are unlit. Dissimilarity and shadow levels are fabulous. Pretty details are well represented. There is some minor edge enhancement and aliasing, but it is so limited and infrequent that I really shouldn’t be mentioning it at all. There’s barely any digital or film grain for a unruffled, thoroughly entertaining visual presentation. The audio is mono but cleaned up in such a scheme that one hardly notices its dated shortcomings.
AT LAST - as an extra, Criterion gives us “Preston Sturges: A Life” a thoroughly captivating, in-depth, chubby fledged documentary on the man, the making of this movie, as well as a time line documenting Sturges’ many other films with a multitude of background material and snippets from each of the movies in Sturges’ canon. The documentary is so proper, you’ll want to recognize it twice. Yes, there’s also an audio commentary and the usual Lux Radio junket that accompanies most Criterion classic titles. But the documentary is what counts here.
BOTTOM LINE: A MUST HAVE DISC FOR ANY FILM BUFF!
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