Sullivan's travels
By: a Paramount Picture ; producer, Paul Jones ; written and directed by Preston Sturges
Contributors: Lake, Veronica, actor; McCrea, Joel, 1905-1990, actor; Paramount Pictures, Inc; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: DVD special edition.
Series: The Criterion collection -- 118; Criterion collection -- 118.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9781604659757
Subjects: Drama; Motion pictures; Motion picture producers and directors; Production and direction
Description: A Hollywood director wants to abandon comedies and make serious films. In order to feed his creative flame, he travels onto the street disguised as a hobo in order to endure real hardship.
Notes: Full screen (1.37:1) aspect ratio.

"High-definition digital restoration"--Container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1941.

Special features: Audio commentary from 2001 by filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Kenneth Bowser, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean; Preston Sturges: the rise and fall of an American dreamer (1990), a 76-minute documentary made by Bowser for PBS's American Masters series; New video essay by film critic David Cairns, featuring filmmaker Bill Forsyth; Interview from 2001 with Sandy Sturges, the director's widow; Interview with Sturges by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper from 1951; Archive audio recordings of Sturges; Essay by critic Stuart Klawans.

Director of photography, John Seitz ; music, Sigmund Krumgold, Leo Shuken, Charles Bradshaw ; editor, Stuart Gilmore.

Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Margaret Hayes, Porter Hall, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore, Robert Greig, Georges Renavent, Harry Rosenthal.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital, monaural.

Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).