Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges

Here are five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer—director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called "one of the most brilliant and most bizarre bursts of creation in the history of cinema."

They are astonishingly readable and deliciously funny. Brian Henderson's introduction provides an overview of Sturges criticism and brief biographical material. Each scr...