Sullivan's Travels (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Tired of churning out lightweight comedies, Hollywood director John L. Sullivan (The Palm Beach Story's Joel McCrea) decides to make O Brother, Where Art Thou? a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. After his producers point out that he knows nothing of hardship, Sullivan hits the road disguised as a hobo. En route to enlightenment, he meets a lovely but no-nonsense young woman (I Married a Witch's Veronica Lake) and more trouble than he ever dreamed of. This comic masterpiece by Preston Sturges (The Lady Eve) is among the finest Hollywood satires and a high-water mark in the career of one of the industry's most revered funnymen.

Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Byron Foulger, Margaret Hayes, Robert Greig, Eric Blore, Torben Meyer, Victor Potel, Richard Webb, Charles Moore, Almira Sessions, Esther Howard, Frank Moran, Georges Renavent, Harry Rosenthal, Al Bridge, Jimmy Conlin, Robert Winkler, Jimmy Dundee, Harry Hayden, Willard Robertson, Pat West, J. Farrell MacDonald, Edward Hearn, Roscoe Ates, Paul Newlan, Arthur Hoyt, Robert Dudley, George Anderson, Monte Blue, Harry Tyler, Dewey Robinson, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Perc Launders, Emory Parnell, Julius Tannen, Edgar Dearing, Howard Mitchell, Harry Seymour, Billy Bletcher, Esther Michelson, Chester Conklin, Frank Mills, Jester Hairston, Anita Brown, Irving Smith, Elizabeth Ashley, Myrtle Anderson, Frances Driver, James Davis, Preston Sturges, Ray Milland