The Bigger Picture film club ? ?Sullivan?s Travels? at East Dulwich Tavern on 15 December 2016

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The Bigger Picture film club will be showing ?Sullivan?s Travels? (1941) at 8pm on Thursday, 15 December 2016, Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern.

One of the great classic comedies of 1930s Hollywood, Preston Sturges? Sullivan?s Travels takes a Hollywood director on an odyssey of Depression Era America with surprising and sometimes terrifying results.

John L Sullivan (Joel McCrea) tires of making lightweight comedies and decides he wants to make a serious film about the poor. In order to find out what true hardship means, he hits the road as a tramp with a retinue including a butler and valet arranged by the studio as a publicity stunt. Escaping his servants in order to really live as a hobo, he bumps into a young would-be actress (Veronica Lake) and then the trouble starts. Mistakenly identified, reported as dead, locked up on a prison farm, Sullivan?s journey progresses with comedy and tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.

With interesting parallels with our previous film, 8 ? , and the inspiration for the Coen Brothers' Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Sullivan's Travels deliberately employs almost every type of cinematic genre to explore the pretensions and excesses of Hollywood.

Director: Preston Sturges, with Joel McCrea, and Veronica Lake

US 88 minutes. Cert PG. All tickets ?7.

Bar opens from 7pm. Film at 8pm.

Tickets ?7 from WeGotTickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/351063

The Bigger Picture website: http://www.thebiggerpic.co.uk/

The Bigger Picture Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thebiggerpic?ref=tn_tnmn

Location:

Upstairs at East Dulwich Tavern

1 Lordship Lane

London SE22 8EW

Rail: East Dulwich;

Buses: P13, 37, 185, 176, 40, 484

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Here's a trailer for 'Sullivan's Travels':