What is Sullivan's Travels / Hail the Conquering Hero about?

Name: Sullivan's Travels / Hail the Conquering Hero
Genre: Comedy

SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS, 1941, Universal, 90 min. Dir. Preston Sturges. Successful Hollywood director Joel McCrea grows weary of making "entertainment pictures," and decides to hit 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 the most. HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO, 1944, Universal, 100 min. When Eddie Bracken is discharged from the military for chronic hay fever, his pals decide to send him home with a reputation as a great war hero. What ensues is a flurry of patriotic fervor, some genuine and some ridiculous, but all of it hilarious in writer-director Preston Sturges' hands.

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What is Sullivan's Travels / Hail the Conquering Hero about?: SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS, 1941, Universal, 90 min. Dir. Preston Sturges. Successful Hollywood director Joel McCrea grows weary of making "entertainment pictures," and decides to hit 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 the most.
HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO, 1944, Universal, 100 min. When Eddie Bracken is discharged from the military for chronic hay fever, his pals decide to send him home with a reputation as a great war hero. What ensues is a flurry of patriotic fervor, some genuine and some ridiculous, but all of it hilarious in writer-director Preston Sturges' hands.