Frank Mills

Trailer for Sullivan's Travels. Joel McCrea and sultry Veronica Lake star in this starkly realistic yet highly humorous satire from Oscar winning writer-director Preston Sturges. McCrea plays successful Hollywood director John L. Sullivan, an idealist who believes you can't accurately direct a screen tragedy unless you live it first. Disguising himself as a bum, Sullivan sets off to see America from the bottom up. Along the way he befriends a beautiful but cynical stray (Veronica Lake), and learns about the cruelty of life among the less fortunate. In the midst of the brutality and despair, the young director makes a valuable discovery that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.

A New York bandleader is offered a film contract and moves to California where his lack of esire to be a star is thought to be arrogance. Sick of Hollywood, he takes his wife on a cruise, but when they come back he is indeed a superstar.

The new investigator for the New York Department of Weights and Measures, pugnacious Johnny Cave, steps on the toes of influential merchants and gets increasing pressure, both political and strongarm, to desist.

Capra's classic adaptation of Kaufman and Hart's story of an offbeat New York family. Winner of Best Picture Oscar!