Bonus Blog #3: Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

In the summer of my sophomore year of college, I took a film studies class called "Hollywood on Hollywood," an analysis of movies that were about both the town of Hollywood itself and the movie-making business. Among the films we watched in the class were Sunset Boulevard, The Day of the Locust, and Sullivan's Travels.

Though many of the films in that class left an impression on me, Sullivan's Travels was one that truly surprised me. A film from 1941, written and directed by Preston Sturges, it felt modern and fresh in a way that most of the films from the 30s and 40s I'd seen so far simply hadn't. In our review of this film in that class and my continued education in film studies, I would learn that this style of writing was something Preston Sturges was famous for, combining wonderful turns of phrase with vaudevillian physical comedy…

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