The Little Prince
Little Prince, The (film: USA, 1974),an adaptation of the book by French aviator/writer Antoine de Saint‐Exupéry, who died in 1944 on a flying mission over the Mediterranean. In the story a pilot crash‐lands in the desert and meets a small boy who has come to earth from the small, distant asteroid he rules. Seeking fidelity to the book, the director Stanley Donen filmed on location in the Sahara rather than create a desert in a studio. Even Saint‐Exupéry's drawings are used, both as part of the credits and in a short animation sequence. Only the songs, by Lerner and Loewe, have no counterpart in the original.
Terry Staples
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