What the Hell was wrong with Preston Sturges

I sat down and watched SULLIVANS’S TRAVELS the other day. It took no time at all for me to be uncomfortable with this film. Preston Sturges the writer and director of this “classic” sure did a bang up job with this comedy-with-just-a-dash-of-reality moving picture. It is the tale of a Hollywood film-maker who decides his next picture should not be a comedy. Sully the director in the film wants to make OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU. He wants to show the plight of the common man. Not some fluffy comedy that his executives push for him to create. So this Sully guy decided to get his bum on. He treats his rags as if they were wardrobe. “Is this poor looking to you?” “How poor does this look.” Not too far along the way he meets Veronica Lake in a café and they are off on the wildest bum adventure two Hollywood types could ever have. Veronica Lake can be seen here in all her Lakey glory. She was a beauty but you could see some sort of damage coming thru her performance. Something wasn’t right. As for Joel McCrea he is just a clown of a man as Sullivan. The film seems to be masquerading as a screwball comedy until Sully gets mugged and thrown into a boxcar to skidsville. Horrors! He gets thrown into the pokey without the usual morning sinker and joe. Double Horrors!
His memory fuzzy from a blow to the head he cant seem to defend himself while on trial for , who cares… he gets stuck on a chain-gang and is forced to live OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU.

Who cares Preston Sturges?
Listen to me Preston! I’m a man from the future so I know what I’m talking about!

You were an ass. You were clearly a dime store heel who somehow fell into money. You just had to make “your story” only you didn’t have the balls to do it. Why the hell couldn’t you strap on a sack and do your own story? SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS was nothing more than a republicans view of what a democrat is. It left a very bad lingering taste .

I guess I have to thank you for at least one thing Preston:
Thank you for showing me that political climates are circular and we are fast approaching your time again.