Sullivan's Travels is fun, but I didn't love it as much as everyone else seems to love it. I think I Married a Witch, another Veronica Lake film from the same period, is much funnier. Obviously this is charming, but the turn the film takes in the third act, in which the main character goes to a privately run prison, is difficult to stomach. The film is trying to give us a portrait of injustice, and it certainly does that, but it doesn't seem very interested in justice. I don't know. It just didn't sit right with me. I need to see some more Sturges.
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