Sullivan`s Travels Page #2

Synopsis: Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. Much to the chagrin of his producers, he sets off in tramp's clothing with a single dime in his pocket to experience poverty first-hand, and gets some reality shock.
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Production: Paramount Pictures
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IMDB:
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Rotten Tomatoes:
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NOT RATED
Year:
1941
90 min
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Don't worry about me. And thanks,

Dracula. You gave me a great idea.

I gave you...

- Now look what you've done.

- Yeah... What I've done?

With your lies

about selling newspapers!

I sold as many newspapers

as you supported a family at 13.

- I opened a shooting gallery.

- With money you borrowed from your uncle.

- We better insure him for a million.

- He's worth more.

- The bonehead.

- Yes, but what a genius.

Get me a copy of that

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

I guess I'll have

to read it now.

Make that two copies.

Why should I suffer alone?

- How's this?

- Isn't that overdoing it, a bit sir?

Why break their hearts?

All right.

Let's try that one again.

I think this one's

sufficiently seedy, sir.

There's no use overplaying it,

is there, sir?

Yes?

- Your wife is on one, sir.

- What does she want?

I suspect it has something to do

with today's being the 15th.

Payday. All right, put her on.

You may connect Mrs. Sullivan.

Yes?

You don't happen to remember

what day this is, do you, dear?

Yes, I happen to remember

what day it is.

No, I haven't forgotten anything.

Have you?

Perhaps I could be a little

more polite, Mrs. Sullivan,

but somehow, when I talk to you

I don't feel polite.

I regret it,

but that's the way it is.

I don't know whether

I signed it or not.

I always close my eyes

when I sign your check.

Maybe I signed the blotter.

Have you made out

the Panther Woman's check yet?

You better get it down to her before

she comes up here with the sheriff.

She has a very peculiar

sense of humor.

Good morning, sir.

Good morning, Burrows.

How do you like it?

I don't like it at all, sir.

Fancy dress, I take it?

- What's the matter with it?

- I have never been sympathetic...

- to the caricaturing of the poor and needy, sir.

- Who's caricaturing?

Burrows doesn't know

about the expedition, sir.

I'm going out on the road to find out

what it's like to be poor and needy,

and then I'm going

to make a picture about it.

If you'll permit me to say so, sir,

the subject is not an interesting one.

The poor know all about poverty...

and only the morbid rich

would find the topic glamorous.

But I'm doing it for the poor.

Don't you understand?

I doubt if they would

appreciate it, sir.

They rather resent the invasion of their

privacy, I believe quite properly, sir.

Also, such excursions can be

extremely dangerous, sir.

I worked for a gentleman once

who likewise, with two friends,

accoutered themselves as you have,

sir, and then went out for a lark.

They have not been

heard from since.

- That was some time ago?

- 1912, sir.

- Huh.

- You see, sir, rich people...

and theorists...

who are usually rich people...

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Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges (; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 1941, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty, his first of three nominations in the category. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. It is not uncommon for a Sturges character to deliver an exquisitely turned phrase and take an elaborate pratfall within the same scene. A tender love scene between Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve was enlivened by a horse, which repeatedly poked its nose into Fonda's head. Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood (such as Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts, however Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to establish success as a screenwriter and then move into directing his own scripts, at a time when those roles were separate. Sturges famously sold the story for The Great McGinty to Paramount Pictures for $1, in return for being allowed to direct the film; the sum was quietly raised to $10 by the studio for legal reasons. more…

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