Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. A satire on the film industry, it follows a famous Hollywood comedy director who, longing to make a socially relevant drama, sets out to live as a vagrant drifter to gain life experience for his forthcoming film, and unites with a poor aspiring actress along the way. The title is a reference to Gulliver's Travels, the 1726 novel by satirist Jonathan Swift about another journey of self-discovery.