Review of Sullivan's Travels (1941) by Henry G — 04 Jun 2007

Maybe the best picture ever made. If not it's a stone's throw away from the title. Veronica Lake, one of the most enduringly fascinating (and mercilessly beautiful) personalities of the screen, Joel McCrea who is likewise no slouch, and one of the most focused and sympathetic leading men of all time, head it, and then there's the stock company as always, comlete with Demarest and Pangborn, not to mention a story that covers all the highs and lows of life, praises comedy, becomes unabshedly sentimental and feels like the most sense the world has got to offer.

A picture, a tribute, a portrait of understanding of human idiocy and sentiment, one hell of a piece of work. Thank god for it.