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This screwball classic from the golden age of Hollywood is the pinnacle of several comedy masterpieces directed by Preston Sturges in the early 1940s. Renowned as the finest movie-about-a-movie ever made, Sullivan’s Travels stars Joel McCrea as a successful Hollywood director who tires of his formulaic lightweight comedies and plans to direct a social realist epic about the struggle of the working poor titled O Brother, Where Art Thou (the Coen Brothers used the title in their hit 2000 comedy starring George Clooney). When McCrea's miffed producers point out that he was born with a silver spoon, the stubborn director sets out to reseach his story the hard way and hits the road as a hobo. Along the way he runs into the lovely Veronica Lake - and more trouble than he ever dreamed of.