1941 Preston Sturges masterpiece starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake about a Hollywood comedy director who poses as a bum to find out about the real world. In this scene he starts his trip at a local diner at the edge of town and meets the sultry Ms. Lake and forms a lasting friendship. Writer and film critic James Agee wrote of Sullivan’s Travels: “A brilliant fantasy in two keys — slapstick farce and the tragedy of human misery.”
