The Little Prince (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Little Prince


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caption = film poster by Richard Amsel
director = Stanley Donen
producer = Stanley Donen
writer = Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Alan Jay Lerner
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starring = Richard Kiley
Steven Warner
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cinematography = Christopher Challis
editing = Peter Boita
George Hively
distributor = Paramount Pictures
released = November 7 1974
runtime = 88 mins
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language = English
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amg_id = 1:29587
imdb_id = 0071762

"The Little Prince" is a 1974 musical film with a screenplay and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. It proved to be the creative team's penultimate collaboration (they would reunite to write extra songs for a stage-version of "Gigi").

Based on the classic book of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the fable tells the story of an aviator forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert. There he is befriended by a young boy from Asteroid B-612. In the days that follow, the pilot hears about his past and various journeys throughout the Solar System. Not until he reaches Earth does the child learn important life lessons.

Directed and produced by Stanley Donen, the film starred Steven Warner in the title role, with Richard Kiley as the aviator. Additional cast members included Bob Fosse (who choreographed his own dance sequence), Gene Wilder, Donna McKechnie, Joss Ackland, and Victor Spinetti. The desert sequences were filmed on location in Tunisia.

A soundtrack album was released by ABC Records (which had recently bought Paramount Records). It is available in CD format on Decca Records.

ong list

* "I Need Air"
* "Be Happy"
* "I'm on Your Side"
* "You're a Child"
* "Little Prince"
* "I Never Met a Rose"
* "Why is the Desert"
* "A Snake in the Grass"
* "Closer and Closer and Closer"

In 1973, Lerner and Loewe recorded the score at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, with Lerner on vocals and Loewe at the piano. It included "Matters Of Consequence," which was cut from the film. It is one of only a few existing recordings of the duo performing together.

The film had Production Design by John Barry (not to be confused with composer John Barry, who later composed a failed musical-adaptation of "The Little Prince" for Broadway).

External links

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* [http://www.bluedalmatian.bluegrasswest.com/blue_dal/public_html/little_prince.htm/ Lerner & Loewe recording]