The Little Prince (1974 film)
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Theatrical release poster by Richard Amsel
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| Directed by | Stanley Donen |
| Produced by | Stanley Donen |
| Screenplay by | Alan Jay Lerner |
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| Starring | Steven Warner Richard Kiley Bob Fosse Gene Wilder Donna McKechnie Joss Ackland Victor Spinetti |
| Music by |
Frederick Loewe (score) Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Edited by | Peter Boita George Hively |
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Stanley Donen Films
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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88 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
The Little Prince is a 1974 British-American fantasy-musical film with screenplay and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe. It was both directed and produced by Stanley Donen and based on the 1943 classic children-adult's novella, (The Little Prince), by the writer, poet and pioneering aviator Count Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who disappeared near the end of the Second World War some 15 months after his fable was first published.
The film and its music were unsuccessful at the box office but became somewhat popular after its theatrical run, and has been released for sale on various media.
The original Little Prince novella was first published in 1943, and is the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Count Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944). It is a poetic tale self-illustrated in watercolours in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. The story is philosophical and includes societal criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world.
Though ostensibly a children's book, The Little Prince makes several profound and idealistic observations about life and human nature. For example, Saint-Exupéry tells of a fox meeting the young prince during his travels on Earth. The story's essence is contained in the lines uttered by the fox to the little prince: On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. ("One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.") Other key thematic messages are articulated by The Fox, such as: "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" and "It is the time you have devoted to your rose that makes your rose so important." The Fox's messages are arguably the most famous because of their nature of dealing with relationships.
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