| Description |
by Craig Chalquist |
Sullivan's Travels comes to dual-layered DVD with limited audio and picture options (full-screen standard picture in 1.33:1 aspect ratio; English-only Dolby 2.0 Mono with English subtitles; black-and-white picture only), but with a load of special features including an audio commentary by Kenneth Bowser, Noah Baumbach, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean; a 76-minute PBS documentary called The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer put together by Kenneth Bowser; a digitally enhanced transfer to DVD; production stills, storyboards, and blueprints; a publicity materials scrapbook; a collection of Sturges audio recordings; interviews with both Sturges and his widow; and the usual theatrical trailers. |
| Features |
- New digital transfer
- Audio commentary by Noah Baumbach, Kenneth Bowser, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean
- "Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer," a 76-minute documentary made by Kenneth Bowser for PBS's "American Masters" series
- Hedda Hopper interview with Preston Sturges
- Archival audio recordings of Sturges singing his original composition "My Love" and reciting the poem "If I Were King"
- Storyboards and blueprints
- Production stills archive
- Scrapbook of original publicity materials
- Original theatrical trailer
- English subtitles
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
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