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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Preston Sturgis'

Sullivan's Travels (1942)

with Joel McCrae and Veronica Lake.

A Hollywood director goes on the road to get how the other half lives. He wants to make a serious film.

Well, it gets a lot more serious than he bargains for.

I didn't like it very much. It veered from slapstick comedy to dark social realism.

I got the point but it was pretty heavy handed.

Veronica Lake is pretty dim.

The rest of the cast shines but it was too much for me. I skipped parts.

That makes it a 1 out of Netflix5. Sorry. I wanted to like it.

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