However, there was also a filmed version released in from MGM. I found a copy, though, and watched it. The Phantom Tollbooth is the story of Milo, a boy who is going through life on automatic.
Nothing affects him, nothing interests him, nothing makes him care. As the film opens, he gets out of school and walks home through what I believe is San Francisco. When he gets there, his friend Ralph calls him on the phone and the two of them bemoan the fact that they have nothing to do. Milo is suspect, but agrees…. Which he knows is animated.
Anyway, Milo drives his car into the Land of Expectations, where he meets a strange cast of characters. I kind of wonder if Patrick was in the same room as Blanc et al when they were doing their recordings, and if he appreciated it at that age.
Dean Elliott, who composed music for many, many animated shows, did the incidental stuff in a lates-earlys disco style. I was bopping along; not gonna lie. Those who have read the book know how Milo resolved the plot, and in the book it was quite satisfying. However, in the film I felt like everything happened too quickly.
Jung, gura, jnf gur cbvag? Whfg gb grnpu Zvyb n yrffba? Nccneragyl fb. Even Tock would approve of that expenditure of time.
