Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Taglines:

A Happy-Go Lucky Hitch-Hiker on the Highway to happiness! He wanted to see the world . . . but wound up in Lover's Lane! See more »

Parents Guide:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

December 1941 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Les voyages de Sullivan See more »

Filming Locations:

Bob Hope Airport - 2627 Hollywood Way, Burbank, California, USA See more »

Budget:

$689,665 (estimated)

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures See more »

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Runtime:

90 min  | West Germany: 85 min (TV premiere)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Trivia

Reportedly, Preston Sturges got the idea for the movie from stories of John Garfield living the life of a hobo, riding freight trains and hitchhiking his way cross-country for a short period in the 1930s. See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: When the supposedly unconscious Sullivan is being pulled by a bum who hit him into an empty boxcar, you can see the actor (Joel McRae) push himself along with his foot, apparently because the other man is not strong enough to drag him. See more »

Quotes

Burrows: You see, sir, rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health. But it isn't, sir. Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study. It is to be shunned.
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Connections

Featured in 100 Years of Comedy (1997) See more »

Soundtracks

"Let My People Go"
Traditional spiritual
Played on the harmonium by Madame Sul-Te-Wan and sung
by Jess Lee Brooks and the churchgoers See more »