... was also one of the most successful of all the Hollywood moguls, leading hiscompany through the shoals of the talkie revolution, the depression, the end of the studio era, and the advent of tele-vision ... Depression comedy, Sullivan’s Travels (1941).A trio of good-spirited convicts, led by George Clooney,escape from a chain gang on a prison farm and spend the rest of the film on the make and on the ... hundreds of them in the 1930s and 1940s) have withstood the test of time.Many of them, in fact, are now considered classic.Unlike the Three Stooges, who were never the darlings of the critics, the...