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* UnwantedSpouse: Sullivan is unhappily married to a shrew whom he married on the advice of his business manager. When it's believed Sullivan is dead his wife immediately marries her lover... that business manager. Which is good news for Sullivan when he turns up alive, as he now has every right to divorce her and settle down with The Girl.
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** When a cop arresting Sullivan for stealing his own car asks how The Girl "fits into the picture." '''Sullivan''': "There's always a girl in the picture. What's the matter, don't you go to the movies?"
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Incidentally, the shot of Sullivan travelling down the road as he begins his journey went on to inspire the logo for Caravan Pictures (the page quote above is where the company's name comes from). Company founder Joe Roth must be a fan of Preston Sturges, as he previously worked at Morgan Creek - named after ''The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek''.
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Incidentally, the shot of Sullivan travelling down the road as he begins his journey went on to inspire the logo for Caravan Pictures (the page quote above is where the company's name comes from). Company founder Joe Roth must be a fan of Preston Sturges, as he previously worked at Morgan Creek - named after ''The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek''.
''Film/TheMiracleOfMorgansCreek''.
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Incidentally, the shot of Sullivan travelling down the road as he begins his journey went on to inspire the logo for Caravan Pictures (the page quote above is where the company's name comes from). (Studio Company founder Joe Roth must be a fan of Preston Sturges, as he previously worked at Morgan Creek - named after ''The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek''.)
Creek''.
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Incidentally, the shot of Sullivan travelling down the road as he begins his journey went on to inspire the logo for Caravan Pictures (at (the page quote above is where the end of the movie Sullivan calls life a caravan, hence the name).company's name comes from). (Studio founder Joe Roth must be a fan of Preston Sturges, as he previously worked at Morgan Creek - named after ''The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek''.)
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* FakeOutOpening: The first scene is an action sequence with two men fighting on top of a speeding train. It's the last scene from Sullivan's latest movie.
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A 1941 film by Creator/PrestonSturges about a Hollywood director who is pigeonholed in comedy but desires the chance to adapt ''O Brother Where Art Thou'', a socially relevant book he admires. The only way he can make his desire a reality is to gain experience in poverty, so he sets out with 10 cents in his pocket to experience the real America. Unfortunately, studio bigwigs fear for their favorite director's safety, and they cushion him every step of the way.
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A 1941 film by Creator/PrestonSturges about a Hollywood director who is pigeonholed in comedy but desires the chance to adapt ''O Brother Where Art Thou'', a socially relevant book he admires. The only way he can make his desire a reality is to gain experience in poverty, so he sets out with 10 cents in his pocket to experience the real America. Unfortunately, studio bigwigs fear for their favorite director's safety, and they cushion him every step of the way.
way. Until things go horribly wrong, that is.
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-> ''There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.''
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: That dinky little town in the middle of nowhere, with the one diner, that Sullivan and The Girl stop at? Las Vegas, NV.
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* OneHeadTaller: [=McCrea=] towered over Veronica Lake, who was barely five feet tall.
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A 1941 film by Creator/PrestonSturges about a Hollywood director who is pigeonholed in comedy but desires the chance to adapt ''OBrotherWhereArtThou'', a socially relevant book he admires. The only way he can make his desire a reality is to gain experience in poverty, so he sets out with 10 cents in his pocket to experience the real America. Unfortunately, studio bigwigs fear for their favorite director's safety, and they cushion him every step of the way.
A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/IngridBergman. Creator/TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny masterworks.
A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/IngridBergman. Creator/TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny masterworks.
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A 1941 film by Creator/PrestonSturges about a Hollywood director who is pigeonholed in comedy but desires the chance to adapt ''OBrotherWhereArtThou'', ''O Brother Where Art Thou'', a socially relevant book he admires. The only way he can make his desire a reality is to gain experience in poverty, so he sets out with 10 cents in his pocket to experience the real America. Unfortunately, studio bigwigs fear for their favorite director's safety, and they cushion him every step of the way.
A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/IngridBergman. Creator/TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funnymasterworks.
masterworks, most obviously when they made [[{{Defictionalization}} a real movie]] called ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou''.
A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/IngridBergman. Creator/TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny
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* BedsheetLadder: How Sullivan escapes from the home of the horny widow.
* BindleStick: Sullivan uses one of these when dressing up as a hobo.
* ChekhovsGun: A hobo steals Sullivan's shoes. This seems like a gag (said hobo leaves his considerably rattier shoes behind, and Sullivan has to put them on), but becomes an important plot point when said hobo is killed in a train collision. The shoes had Sullivan's ID sewn into the soles, so Sullivan's friends presume he is dead.
* BindleStick: Sullivan uses one of these when dressing up as a hobo.
* ChekhovsGun: A hobo steals Sullivan's shoes. This seems like a gag (said hobo leaves his considerably rattier shoes behind, and Sullivan has to put them on), but becomes an important plot point when said hobo is killed in a train collision. The shoes had Sullivan's ID sewn into the soles, so Sullivan's friends presume he is dead.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: One of Sullivan's trips into poverty ends with him shirtless, chopping wood for a lonely widow, while said widow stares out the window and practically drools.
* FakeOutOpening: The first scene is an action sequence with two men fighting on top of a speeding train. It's the last scene from Sullivan's latest movie.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: The homeless man who steals Sullivan's shoes, then knocks him out and robs him, is run over by a train]].
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* HideYourPregnancy: Lake waited until after production had started to tell Sturges that she was six months pregnant. Some shots are framed to show Lake only above the waist, in others she wears robes or baggy hobo clothes, and in others Sturges used a stunt double.
* ImpairmentShot: Used when Sullivan, who is suffering from the after-effects of a concussion, is tried for assault.
* KarmicDeath:[[spoiler: The homeless man who steals Sullivan's shoes, then knocks him out and robs him, is run over by a train]].train.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "If ever a plot needed a twist, this one does" says Sullivan, who then gets the idea for the climactic twist--he confesses to the murder of John Sullivan, which gets his picture in the paper and lets his friends know he's alive.
* ImpairmentShot: Used when Sullivan, who is suffering from the after-effects of a concussion, is tried for assault.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "If ever a plot needed a twist, this one does" says Sullivan, who then gets the idea for the climactic twist--he confesses to the murder of John Sullivan, which gets his picture in the paper and lets his friends know he's alive.
* OscarBait: In universe, this is the kind of movie Sullivan wants to make.
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A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with Creator/KatharineHepburn and IngridBergman.Creator/IngridBergman. Creator/TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny masterworks.
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By the time Grace Kelly became famous, Lake\'s career was over. Bergman was her contemporary.
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A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with Creator/KatharineHepburn and GraceKelly.IngridBergman. Creator/TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny masterworks.
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A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with KatherineHepburn Creator/KatharineHepburn and GraceKelly. Creator/TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny masterworks.
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* GilliganCut: While dressed as a bum, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Sullivan steals his own car]] to give The Girl a ride; when the police pull up behind him, Sullivan assures her there's absolutely nothing they can do. Cut to Sullivan and the Girl in jail, where he's telling her the same thing.
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A 1941 film by PrestonSturges Creator/PrestonSturges about a Hollywood director who is pigeonholed in comedy but desires the chance to adapt ''OBrotherWhereArtThou'', a socially relevant book he admires. The only way he can make his desire a reality is to gain experience in poverty, so he sets out with 10 cents in his pocket to experience the real America. Unfortunately, studio bigwigs fear for their favorite director's safety, and they cushion him every step of the way.
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* PlaceWorseThanDeath:
-->'''[=LeBrand=]:''' It died in Pittsburgh.
-->'''Hadrian:''' Like a dog!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh?
-->'''Hadrian:''' They know what they like!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh!
-->'''[=LeBrand=]:''' It died in Pittsburgh.
-->'''Hadrian:''' Like a dog!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh?
-->'''Hadrian:''' They know what they like!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh!
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-->'''[=LeBrand=]:''' It died in Pittsburgh.
-->'''Hadrian:''' Like a dog!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh?
-->'''Hadrian:''' They know what they like!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh!
** Also, the movie in general is intended as a TakeThat to those who undervalue comedy movies.
-->'''[=LeBrand=]:''' It died in Pittsburgh.
-->'''Hadrian:''' Like a dog!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh?
-->'''Hadrian:''' They know what they like!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh!
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-->'''[=LeBrand=]:''' It died in Pittsburgh.
-->'''Hadrian:''' Like a dog!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh?
-->'''Hadrian:''' They know what they like!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh!
** Also, theTakeThat: The movie in general is intended as a TakeThat to those who undervalue comedy movies.
-->'''[=LeBrand=]:''' It died in Pittsburgh.
-->'''Hadrian:''' Like a dog!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh?
-->'''Hadrian:''' They know what they like!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh!
** Also, the
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A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with KatherineHepburn and GraceKelly. TheCoenBrothers Creator/TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny masterworks.
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* ShoutOut: The title is a takeoff on Jonathan Swift's ''GulliversTravels''.
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* ShoutOut: The title is a takeoff on Jonathan Swift's ''GulliversTravels''.''Literature/GulliversTravels''.
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* CreatorCameo: Sturges can be seen briefly in the scene where The Girl discovers Sullivan isn't dead.
* GenreSavvy: The Girl. It's telling Sullivan runs into his biggest trouble while pretending to be a bum on the one night she doesn't go with him.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: The homeless man who steals Sullivan's shoes, then knocks him out and robs him, is run over by a train]].
* MoodWhiplash: The film alternates between Sturges' usually comedy and the dark scenes of homeless people, and it especially gets dark when Sullivan goes to prison. Then it recovers for a comic finale.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: The homeless man who steals Sullivan's shoes, then knocks him out and robs him, is run over by a train]].
* MoodWhiplash: The film alternates between Sturges' usually comedy and the dark scenes of homeless people, and it especially gets dark when Sullivan goes to prison. Then it recovers for a comic finale.
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Sullivan is believed to have been run over by a train. It was actually a bum wearing Sullivan's shoes. He's actually in jail, but no one knows he's not dead until he has his EurekaMoment.
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Sullivan is believed to have been run over by a train.train and killed. It was actually a bum wearing Sullivan's shoes. He's actually in jail, but no one knows he's not dead until he has his EurekaMoment.
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** Also, the movie in general is intended as a TakeThat to those who undervalue comedy movies.
* WorkingOnTheChainGang: Sullivan is sentenced to a chain gang when he's arrested and convicting for assaulting a train officer.
** Also, the movie in general is intended as a TakeThat to those who undervalue comedy movies.
* WorkingOnTheChainGang: Sullivan is sentenced to a chain gang when he's arrested and convicting for assaulting a train officer.
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* TheQuest: Sullivan wants to find out what living in poverty really feels like, so he tries to travel around. The irony is he keeps ending up back in Hollywood.
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* EurekaMoment: Sullivan has one of these when he's trying to figure out how to get out of jail (ItMakesSenseInContext).
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* ShoutOut: The title is a takeoff on Jonathan Swift's ''GulliversTravels''.
** Late in the movie, Sullivan and the other members of the chain gang watch and enjoy a WaltDisney cartoon.
** Late in the movie, Sullivan and the other members of the chain gang watch and enjoy a WaltDisney cartoon.
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A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with KatherineHepburn and GraceKelly. TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny masterworks.
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A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with KatherineHepburn and GraceKelly. TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny masterworks.masterworks.
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* NoNameGiven: As noted above, Veronica Lake's character is simply known as "The Girl".
* RunningGag: "But with a little sex in it."
* TakeThat:
-->'''LeBrand:''' It died in Pittsburgh.
-->'''Hadrian:''' Like a dog!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh?
-->'''Hadrian:''' They know what they like!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh!
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* NoNameGiven: As noted above, Veronica Lake's character is simply known as "The Girl".
* RunningGag: "But with a little sex in it."
* TakeThat:
-->'''LeBrand:''' It died in Pittsburgh.
-->'''Hadrian:''' Like a dog!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' Aw, what do they know in Pittsburgh?
-->'''Hadrian:''' They know what they like!
-->'''John L. Sullivan:''' If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh!
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A 1941 film by PrestonSturges about a Hollywood director who is pigeonholed in comedy but desires the chance to adapt ''OBrotherWhereArtThou'', a socially relevant book he admires. The only way he can make his desire a reality is to gain experience in poverty, so he sets out with 10 cents in his pocket to experience the real America. Unfortunately, studio bigwigs fear for their favorite director's safety, and they cushion him every step of the way.
A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with KatherineHepburn and GraceKelly. TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny masterworks.
A landmark satire of Hollywood. [[BoxOfficeBomb Not appreciated when it was first released]], [[VindicatedByHistory it manages to captivate audiences decades later]] with roller-coaster storytelling and with cleverness on an epic scale. "The Girl" is Veronica Lake's most memorable role, placing her in the big leagues with KatherineHepburn and GraceKelly. TheCoenBrothers often steal ideas from ''Sullivan's Travels'' for their similarly funny masterworks.
