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Preston Sturges
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
Great McGinty, The (1940)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest… - The first film with Preston Sturges both scripting and directing, this dryly wacky political satire sees cynical bum Donlevy rise to the heights of…
Christmas in July (1940)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn… - Dir. Sturges second film is a short, sweet and sharp satire on 'success', in which a gullible office clerk (Powell) is fooled by his colleagues into…
Lady Eve, The (1941)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn… - One of the greatest Hollywood screwball comedies ever, this begins with naïve zoologist Henry Fonda (“Snakes are my life”) falling in love with…
Sullivan's Travels (1941)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick… - Hailed as dir. Sturges most reflective statement on his comic art, this finds lightweight Hollywood director Joel McCrea dressing as a tramp in order…
Palm Beach Story, The (1942)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor… - Another fine Preston Sturges comedy, this concerns a gifted but struggling architect (McCrea), whose wife (Colbert) abandons him for the hope of…
Hail The Conquering Hero (1944)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest… - Crazed comedy from dir. Sturges, with Bracken starring as a WW2 soldier, who never actually saw any action because of his hay fever, but who upon…
Great Moment, The (1944)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Joel McCrea, Betty Field, William Demarest… - An oddly serious drama for dir. Sturges, this biopic of WTG Morgan (who discovered the anaesthetic properties of ether in the 19th century), played…
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn… - Madcap screwball comedy from genius writer–director Preston Sturges (THE LADY EVE), following a small–town girl from the Midwest (Betty…
Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The (Mad Wednesday) (1947)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Harold Lloyd - Harold Lloyd’s last film transplants his go–getting character from the silent film ‘The Freshman’ into the rather different comic…
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Barbara Lawrence… - Rex Harrison plays an irascible, paranoid orchestra conductor who comes to suspect his devoted wife's infidelity. Anchored around a memorable…
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