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Doctor Dolittle
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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Directed By: Richard Fleischer
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Theatrical Release: December 31, 1969
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Peter Bull
Get ready for the wildest adventure of a lifetime in the most ambitious musical production ever brought to film. Earning a 1967 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, this dazzling fantasy turns both ordinary and exotic animals into talking, dancing and singing sensations! Rex Harrison is unforgettable in this inspiring adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic stories. Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on the wildest variety of patients you could imagine. Discover his secret cures and watch with wide-eyed excitement as he and his four-legged, fine-feathered friends charm their way into your heart!
User Submitted Doctor Dolittle Reviews
August 16, 2008
I love this film
I really do. It's simple, easy to watch, and younger kids seem to love it. It's just an entertaining film without over-the-top, in your face effects. Best for kids or adults in a mellow mood I would think. It works for me.
August 8, 2008
A great family film for lovers of whimsy
I am convinced that whether or not you love this movie depends on how much you appreciate whimsical humor. There is no film more whimsical than Doctor Doolittle; but if you don't appreciate whimsical (odd, quaint, fanciful, eccentric) humor, you will find this movie simply silly and a bore. I for one love the spirit of whimsy that pervades this film, as well as the beautiful, memorable Leslie Briscusse score, and the lovely cinematography (As a child, I fell in love with the English countryside watching this film). So, check in your adulthood at the door, step back into the land of make-believe you once inhabited as a child, and you'll have a great time watching this film!
July 17, 2008
A childhood favorite that stands the test of time
Too often when you go back and watch a film you adored as a child, you realize it really wasn't all that good, and even worse, you can barely bring yourself to watch it. Not so this one! Critics have loved to bash this film for decades, but I don't understand why. A great score with songs I can still sing, a great cast, a humane hero who becomes more human when he allows himself to love and be loved in return...and Geoffrey Holder! This film (like many of the Disney classics) helped cultivate my love of and appreciation for our furred and feathered cousins. To this day, I cannot watch "When I look into your eyes" sung to Sophie the seal without welling up like a big baby. A true classic your kids need to see (and you do too!)
July 11, 2008
Doctor Do Little
"Doctor Dolittle" was,amazingly,a nominee for Best Picture in 1967. Rex Harrison was a talented actor in his own right,spot-on as the professor in "My Fair Lady" opposite a luminous Audrey Hepburn,and equally great as Julius Caesar in the campfest "Cleopatra" with Liz Taylor. "Doctor Dolittle" shows the good professor out of place with the animals.
"Doctor Dolittle" is an interminable musical. Harrison is cast as the good doctor who can "talk to the animals" (he really does talk,in his talk-singing style) He's in search of a giant pink snail. Some of the special effects are truly psychedelic. Unfortunately, the soundtrack is forgettable and the musical plods through its paces. Doctor Dolittle does little. Not much happens. You're better off with Lassie, National Velvet, and even Flipper.
July 9, 2008
Memories
The old Doctor Doolittle, the one I watched as child. Bought it for my 3 and 4 y/o, but they wouldn't sit through it. I still enjoy it.
July 7, 2008
Doctor Dolittle is a classic!
I was so glad that we were able to purchase this early version of the story of Doctor Dolittle. Rex Harrison is marvelous in the role. The story line is quaint. Costuming is wonderful. My 6-year old daughter enjoyed it as much as I remembered loving it!
June 1, 2008
very good
I loved this movie for a long time and when I saw it on sale I just had to get it.
May 31, 2008
Dr. Doolittle
Everyone needs a carefree, smiling respite once in a while and this fits the bill. The remakes of this movie are very well done but there is nothing like the original.
May 31, 2008
I "prescribe" this film highly !
This film is splendid mix of imagination, music, and color. Check your adulthood at the door and allow the magic of this time-honored film (that was nominated as best picture in 1967), take you back to at a time when the absence of any violence and sexual innuendo defined "family entertainment" . This original version (sans Eddie Murphy), may bore today's kids, but only because they've been de-sensitized by the current day slew of garbage on t.v., the internet, and local movie house. This is a good film elevated to great status by Rex Harrison's potrayl of the good doctor....it's the perfect Rx for anyone whose had a rough day.
April 27, 2008
Classic
Absolutely great "feel good" movie. There just aren't anymore actors that are as versatile as the ones from back in the day. No wonder I go to the movies more and more rarely.....
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