Product Description
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.
Set Contains:
DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
- New 2K digital restoration
- Audio commentary from 2001 by filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Kenneth Bowser, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean
- Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990), a 76-minute documentary made by Bowser for PBS’s American Masters series
- New video essay by film critic David Cairns, featuring filmmaker Bill Forsyth
- Interview from 2001 with Sandy Sturges, the director’s widow
- Interview with Sturges by gossip columnist Hedda Hopper from 1951
- Archival audio recordings of Sturges
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stuart Klawans
