
Movies that feel like Sullivan's Travels (1941)
If you loved Sullivan's Travels, the closest films we have are The Palm Beach Story (1942), The Philadelphia Story (1940) and His Girl Friday (1940). All three share Sullivan's Travels's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on YouTube TV, Philo and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.
If Sullivan's Travels hit the spot, these will too

The same hand behind both of them: Preston Sturges
The difference: Not nearly as epic as Sullivan's Travels

Black and white runs into screwball comedy in each of them

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

Both keep circling back to screwball comedy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Romantic and tender in the same breath

Both trade on melancholy more than on being comedy
The difference: Leans mystery where Sullivan's Travels does not

Witty romance, and it commits to that
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Great depression and jail, at the center of both
The difference: Plays it as drama more than Sullivan's Travels does

Adventure with a pulse of play, in both cases
The difference: 58 years apart, and the 1990s show

Romantic comedy in both cases

Romance built on tenderness, twice over
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