ABSTRACT
In Preston Sturges' classic satire on Hollywood itself, Sullivan's Travels, John Lloyd Sullivan has decided that he has directed too many fluff escapist films and wants to make a socially significant "message" film about the troubles of the poor and needy. When Sullivan demands the opportunity to make a picture that comments on modern conditions stark realism. An aspiring and disillusioned actress, the Girl, helps the tramp Sullivan like a Good Samaritan, feeding him bacon and eggs and mocking his privileged fantasies. The prologue of Sturges' Sullivan's Travels as our epilogue. "To the memory of those who made us laugh: the motley mountebanks, the clowns, the buffoons, in all times and nations, whose efforts have lightened our burden a little, this picture is affectionately dedicated". At the end, Sullivan sees the value of comedy, from a cartoon shown in a black church.
