Mary Poppins: 60 Years On
Still practically perfect in every way
Warning: Contains spoilers
Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins is notably different to the novels by PL Travers. When bringing them to the screen in 1964, Disney removed all the darker edges of the text, bringing not so much a spoonful of sugar but a sack, into a film that could have wound up so saccharine and sentimental as to induce a diabetic com…
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