‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach’ Review: John Travolta’s Slim and Winning Boyhood Reverie of Air Travel in the Lost-Paradise Age of TWA

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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