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Title:

Sullivan's travels [blu-ray] / a Paramount Picture ; produced by Paul Jones ; written and directed by Preston Sturges.

Format:

[blu-ray] /

Edition:

Blu-ray special edition ; Blu-ray edition ; full screen.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

c2015

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Motion picture producers and directors--Drama.
Motion pictures--Production and direction--Drama.
Prisoners--Drama.
Feature films.
Action and adventure films.
Comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Blu-ray discs.

Other Authors:

Sturges, Preston, screenwriter. screenwriter.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Fullscreen (1.37:1) Originally released as a motion picture in 1941. Special features: Audo commentary fro 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 Masteries series; New video essay by film critic David Cairns, featuring filmmaker Bill Forsyth; Interview from 2001 with Sandy Sturges, the director's; Interview with Sturges by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper from 1951; Archive audio recordings of Sturges; Plus: an essay by critic Stuart Klawans. Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Margaret Hayes, Porter Hall, Robert Greig, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore, Georges Renavent, Harry Rosenthal.

Summary:

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.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 118.

ISBN:

1604659742
9781604659740

UPC:

715515143714

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)