A musical treatment of Antoine De Saint Exupery's fabulous fairy-tale about a little boy from outer space and his quest for knowledge and understanding. Director Stanley Donen plunges with both feet into a treacle well of sentiment and it requires all the efforts of Gene Wilder and Bob Fosse to pull him out. Wilder's a wily fox all in brown, but it's Fosse's snake, dressed entirely in black, hissing and bounding about, that really steals the film.
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