TY - ADVS AU - Jones,Paul AU - Sturges,Preston AU - McCrea,Joel AU - Lake,Veronica AU - Warwick,Robert AU - Hayes,Margaret AU - Hall,Porter AU - Pangborn,Franklyn AU - Blore,Eric AU - Greig,Robert AU - Shuken,Leo ED - Paramount Pictures, inc. ED - Janus Films. ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) TI - Sullivan's travels T2 - The Criterion collection SN - 1559409193 AV - CM DVD 00892 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2001/// CY - [Irvington, N.Y.] PB - Criterion Collection KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - United States KW - Drama KW - Tramps KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Social conditions KW - 1933-1945 KW - Feature films KW - Comedy films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - gsafd KW - local N1 - Aspect ratio 1.33:1; Originally released as a motion picture in 1941; "Janus Films."; Special features: audio commentary by Noah Baumbach, Kenneth Bowser, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean ; Preston Sturges: the rise and fall of an American dreamer, a 76-minute documentary made by Kenneth Bowser for PBS's American masters series ; interview with Preston Sturges' widow Sandy Sturges ; Hedda Hopper interview with Preston Sturges ; archival audio recordings of Sturges singing his original composition My love and reciting the poem If I were king ; storyboards and blueprints ; production stills archive ; scrapbook of original publicity materials ; original theatrical trailer; Director of photography, John Seitz ; editor, Stuart Gilmore ; music, Leo Shuken and Charles Bradshaw; Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Margaret Hayes, Porter Hall, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore, Robert Greig, Georges Renavent, Harry Rosenthal; Not rated by MPAA N2 - A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter ER -