The actor-turned-director adapts and narrates his 1997 childhood memoir novel, staging it with a ripe nostalgia for the "Mad Men"/space-age era.
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©Apple TV/Courtesy Everett Collection At the Cannes premiere of “Propeller One-Way Night Coach,” the first movie written and directed by John Travolta (it’s only an hour long, and drops on Apple on May 29), Travolta was introduced with a 10-minute montage of his film work — the sort of thing that sounds very standard, though this had to be one of the greatest movie-star montages I’ve ever seen. It had the benefit of amazing music (“Stayin’ Alive,” “You’re the One That I Want”), but watching Travolta in his ’70s heyday, and in his ’90s second heyday, you realized, quite simply, that he’s one of the most electric stars of the last half century. The montage cued you to a dozen movies you were suddenly dying to see again.
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