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19 December 1967 (USA)
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Ride across the sea inside the GIANT PINK SEA SNAIL! more
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Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh...
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Moth
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England
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Snail
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Veterinarian
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North Atlantic
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 3 wins
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14 nominations
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(4 articles)
Tarzan Chimp Makes Hollywood Comeback
(From WENN. 30 June 2008, 9:07 AM, PDT)
Veteran Director Richard Fleischer Dead at 89
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 27 March 2006)
(From WENN. 30 June 2008, 9:07 AM, PDT)
Veteran Director Richard Fleischer Dead at 89
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 27 March 2006)
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Rex makes it wonderful...
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Rex Harrison | ... | Dr. John Dolittle |
 | Samantha Eggar | ... | Emma Fairfax |
 | Anthony Newley | ... | Matthew Mugg |
 | Richard Attenborough | ... | Albert Blossom |
| Peter Bull | ... | General Bellowes |
| Muriel Landers | ... | Mrs. Blossom |
| William Dix | ... | Tommy Stubbins |
| Geoffrey Holder | ... | William Shakespeare X |
| Portia Nelson | ... | Sarah Dolittle |
| Norma Varden | ... | Lady Fetherington |
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152 min | 145 min (FMC Library Print)
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System)
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Hugh Griffith was seriously favored for the part played by Richard Attenborough but the production team did not hire him because of his drink problem.
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Factual errors: In the scenes with the fox and her pups, the baby foxes are actually played by chihuahua and Pomeranian puppies.
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Dr. Dolittle:
Hello... Me Doctor Dolittle. Here little boy, late for school, here very cold. They all go home "Puddleby," yes?
Willie Shakespeare: [in perfect English] What a funny accent.
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Willie Shakespeare: [in perfect English] What a funny accent.
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Referenced in "The Simpsons: Homer's Barbershop Quartet (#5.1)" (1993)
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Talk To The Animals
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So attached am I to Rex Harrison's personage to the character of Doctor Dolittle, when I see copies of Hugh Lofting's books without the movie tie-in shots I actually feel cheated. There is no other Doctor Dolittle for me. Harrison is wonderful and regal amongst his animals and I love many of his lines (the spin he gives to his dialogue makes the words his own). My favorite: "When you say 'He can speak crab and pelican', they'll say 'Like hell he can!'" (cue parrot's ruffled reaction). Admittedly, "Doctor Dolittle" gets off to a clunky start with Anthony Newley telling of Dolittle's beginnings...and the film goes into stillborn flashback mode. I get defensive if a movie foists a flashback on me in the first 15 minutes (and this flashback is a long one, laden with silly slapstick). Why not start the story with Dolittle finding his voice, cut the introduction with Newley, and then get on with the plot? After this tiresome, talky opening, the pacing does pick up (right about the time Richard Attenborough enters as circus-owner Blossom). Harrison is on-target throughout but, story-wise, momentum doesn't build until the second hour, when Dolittle and his companions hit the South Seas in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. Overall, the film simply LOOKS smashing, with marvelous locations in England's most beautiful city, Castle Combe. It is flawed (with that bad opening), but stick with it and see if you find Rex Harrison as charming as I did. **1/2 from ****