Word: joel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sullivan's Travels (Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, William Demarest, Robert Greig; TIME...
Sturges' whipping boy is one John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), director of such comic hits as So Long Sarong, Hey, Hey in the Hayloft, etc., who unexpectedly rebels, wants to make a sociological epic named Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Sullivan, outfitted as a tramp, goes on the bum to find out about life. His bosses, who came from that side of life, know all about it and want no reminders, have him tailed by a busload of studio publicists-just in case...
...Raymond Dennett's keynote address, round table discussions of social service problems will be held. Gerald Eisner '42 will conduct a session on Group Work and Robert C. Axtell '43 will lead a discussion on Rural Social Service. A round table on Speaking and Entertainment will be led by Joel M. Kane '43 and Bartlett Harwood...
...come out of Hollywood in a long time; and also one of the best. Whatever it is is due entirely to Preston Sturges, because he both wrote and directed it, and because the ideas and the moods, rather than the plot, are the body of the film. Though Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake dos serve a good bit of credit for some fine acting, you cannot help feeling in a picture like this that they are merely interpreting somebody else's ideas. And those ideas are undoubtedly Mr. Sturges...
...picture starts in Hollywood, where Joel McCrea is Sullivan, a Hollywood director who decides he hasn't seen anything of suffering and hardship, and therefore sets off as a tramp to see Life. Of course he runs into Veronica Lake and the two of them proceed out together on Sullivan's travels. At first it is pure comedy, and excellent comedy at that. But then, in a long, silent sequence, Mr. Sturges inserts a serious documentary account of the hobo's life. This in itself is beautifully done, but the sudden shift leaves the audience wondering for a short time...