Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...screen strongly suggests that The Klansman was made pseudonymously by the Snopes family, trying to cash in on the cracker-violence genre pioneered by Walking Tall. Come to think of it though, The Klansman lacks that certain Snopesian gusto. All it has is a drag-tail rankness. ·Jay Cocks...
Screenplay by ALAN JAY LERNER...
...movie is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's visionary fairy tale about a pilot, crash-landed in the Sahara, who confronts his own innocence in the form of a very young man of royalty from a distant planet. The score is by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe-their first collaboration since Camelot in 1960. The music misses the simple, rhapsodic melancholy Saint-Exupéry achieved in his prose, but it excels at capturing the pilot's wistfulness, the Little Prince's spirit and their joy in finding each other...
...Jay Cocks...
Director Ronald Neame (Tunes of Glory, The Poseidon Adventure) has his Nazis parading about like villains in old World War II propaganda melodrama, with delicatessen accents and eyes like hooked fish. Anyone could blow the whistle on Nazis like this. ∎Jay Cocks...