In his biography, Conried admitted to being a fan of Seuss even as a teenager in the 1930s. It's unknown if the footage survives to this day. Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. Dr. Terwilliker has created a piano so massive that it requires 500 boys, including Bart, to play it, enslaving them in the institute.
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother. Use the HTML below. In his dream, he finds himself trapped in the Terwilliker Institute, a place where Bart's piano teacher is a dictator. Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own. 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T -- (Movie Clip) Dungeon For Scratchy Violins. The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T is a Technicolor fantasy -- mostly the extended dream sequence of a boy who doesn't want to practice the piano. The film's story focuses on Bart, a young boy living with his widowed mother. After Bart complains to the plumber, August Zabladowski, about how his instructor might be influencing his mom, Bart dozes off at the piano and dreams. Comedy Noticing when he wakes up that the plumber has distracted his mother, Bart runs outside to play.
Some censorship was also added to one number, namely the mention of "gas chambers" in "The Elevator Song", which could have been misconstrued as a reference to the Holocaust, so the specific stanza was removed.While neither the screenplay or any of the cut footage is available, all of the songs cut from the film can still be heard on the limited edition CD soundtrack release, online, and the bootleg vinyl record, which includes the songs in the film today and most of the cut songs. A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town. More than anything, Bart dreads his strict piano instructor, Dr. Terwilliker. Check out the lineup of new movies and shows streaming on Netflix this month, including Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Fleeing Bart (Tommy Rettig) has come upon the "Dungeon For Scratchy Violins" (etc.) 12 of 12 people found this review helpful. Bart constantly daydreams of a place--the Terwilliker Institute--at which the evil madman is its overlord. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.
In his dream, he finds himself trapped in the Terwilliker Institute, a place where Bart's piano teacher is a dictator. A man has everything: dozens of servants, a palace, vast woods, gardens, a lake, mechanical toys, private entertainment troupes of musicians and dancers. Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another. He has it all - but love.
View the TCMDb entry for The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T [Songs and Music from the Original Soundtrack] The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, film score The mad doctor's built a piano so immense that it needs 500 children to play it. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it. Prior to their removal, every musical number had been filmed.
Others have commented on this but I just have to add after seeing this again today that the prison for orchestra members number looked like Busby Berkely on acid.. not to be missed!! Comedy It is rumored that the premiere version was 139 minutes long, while the film today lasts only 89 minutes Seuss titled the picture The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, and he knew exactly who he wanted to play his melodramatic, foppish lunatic: a character actor and old friend named Hans Conried. The bane of young Bart Collins' existence is the piano lessons he's forced to take under the tutelage of Dr. Terwilliker, the only person he detests because of his dictatorial nature. More than anything, Bart dreads his strict piano instructor, Dr. Terwilliker. Several sub-plots were cut that included the songs. Still probably from the lost "My Favorite Note" number. After Bart complains to the plumber, August Zabladowski, about how his instructor might be influencing his mom, Bart dozes off at the piano and dreams. The film's story focuses on Bart, a young boy living with his widowed mother. Was this review helpful to you?