Double Feature: 70th Anniversary! SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS, 1941, THE LADY EVE, 1941, December 29, 2011

Thursday, December 29 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: 70th Anniversary! SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS, 1941, Universal, 98 min. Director Preston Sturges’ most acclaimed comedy is something like a social-realist movie with a wicked sense of humor. Successful Hollywood director Joel McCrea grows weary of making “entertainment pictures” (and of being egged on by his producers to include in said pictures “a little bit of sex”), so he hits the road disguised as a hobo to research his first serious film. A roller-coaster of mishaps and coincidences lands him on a chain gang, as well as in the arms of lovely Veronica Lake, before he learns what audiences crave most. [35mm]
70th Anniversary! THE LADY EVE, 1941, Universal, 97 min. Dir. Preston Sturges. Henry Fonda is dim-witted ale heir "Hopsy" Pike ("Snakes are my life"); Barbara Stanwyck is Eve, cardsharp and con artist par excellence. Can this relationship work? Savage but never mean-spirited, this is Sturges at his best, blending violent slapstick, zesty dialogue and genuine romance into a peerless masterwork. With Charles Coburn, William Demarest, Eugene Pallette and Eric Blore. [35mm]
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