Dr. Seuss' BURIED Movie is His DARKEST

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Today we uncover the DR. SEUSS MOVIE that Hollywood BURIED for decades. It was too DARK, too STRANGE, and too CONTROVERSIAL. But it all leads to one of his most GRINCHY characters!
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[@paulperry7091]

I always wanted to see this and when a showing was announced in Melbourne Australia I found myself on the wrong side of town.. I rang the theatre to see exactly when it was starting, and they said "we'll start when you get here, you are the only person who wants to see it." So I got a cab, arrived 20 minutes after listed start time, and enjoyed it immensely - alone.

[@MrBTBusch]

Awesome, Best I got was watching Better off dead & Mr. Mom with My my Mom one time when I was pretty sick. Just US two in the entire theatre laughing our asses off, As loud as a full theatre. Was pretty great too, I'll never 4get. RIP Mom.

[@BadWebDiver]

I've always wanted to see this!

[@trojan6530]

Sweet👍😃

[@coyoteartist]

I went to see Kazam with my sister back in the day and the dude in at the concession called to his buddy and said loudly, there's someone here to see Kazam. I don't know actually if he was surprised at the movie choice or having customers. The cineplex got more house once it moved out to the highway.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

hope they at least recovered some of what they lost renting the movie for viewing

[@WillScarlet16]

They say Seuss didn't like kids, but this movie shows he had a deep trust in them, and saw them as smarter than most give them credit for - Bart is a sharp kid, not an innocent little waif or an obnoxious brat, and the movie isn't about him learning a lesson - instead it's HIM who teaches the adults.

[@Dangerzone334ArchiveOfficial]

So that's the reason why I love his works growing up

[@-desertpackrat]

Yeah, I think people misconstrued him not wanting his work to be for kids, because he became an animator for the art form, not because he wanted to make kid stuff, and he was pressured into it anyway. Then people thought oh, he must hate kids then if he doesn't like making silly kid toons. Like I don't hate kids, but I don't make anything for kids, I like to converse and share my art with other adults only, and if someone then tells you all your art should appeal to kids more when you weren't making it for kids, it feels insulting. And people thought he was being unreasonable in that, which is silly.

[@perfectallycromulent]

Seriously? He puts kids in the stupidest hats in the universe in this movie, with some pedophile creep prancing about forcing them to play piano, and you think he likes kids?

[@gabrieljewett4042]

@@-desertpackratyeah people think if you’re an artist that kids happen to like then you must cater to them and be a role model. Like no some people just want to make stuff for themselves and their demographic

[@poindextertunes]

Racist @sshole who helped propagate the military industrial complex

[@ONEFATE9]

I remember watching "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" as a child. It's such a bizarre film, but I loved it because of that! It bombed in the theaters because it was too far ahead of its time! The siamese twins on skates freaked me out to no end! Thanks for bringing back such a great memory for me!

[@GnuHopper]

MY guess would be young Tm Burton saw this film and was never the same afterwards!

[@danielturner336]

Oh my god. Same thing with me and the Siamese beard twins. I used to imagine what kind of freakish physiology they had that caused them to die when their beard got severed. Imagined some kind of horrific skin tentacle concealed with the beard that contained their heart or something and the only reason why there wasn't blood fountaining from the stump was to keep the G rating and cut costs on special effects.

[@ONEFATE9]

Thank you for ruining another childhood memory with that statement!

[@charleslennon1]

I had nightmares.

[@dranorter]

I saw this as a kid, in the 90s, never knew it was ‘buried’. My Dad was a collector of obscure films though.

[@Wezwolf]

It was never buried. You can buy it on dvd and bluray. This is just hype.

[@theotherjared9824]

Dr. Seuss eventually left Hollywood because many of his scripts were essentially stolen from him by studios and he was never given credit. He returned to to quieter life of books and art pieces. He only briefly returned when his old friend Chuck Jones personally approached him for an adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

[@themoonsthree11]

Zionists are thieves of everything, not just land.

[@ottobaron6392]

I first saw this film as a boy on afternoon TV, and I loved it. As far as I'm concerned, it is the absolute best feature length Dr, Seuss film ever made, Hans Conreid was brilliant in this.

[@BrianNatonski-wt3mv]

I think it's also the only feature length film he ever made, isn't it?

[@joestrike8537]

@@BrianNatonski-wt3mv yep; all the contemporary films are based (to 1 degree or another) on his works, but this film is his, through and through!

[@BrianNatonski-wt3mv]

@@joestrike8537 I can't imagine being 6 and sitting through this nightmare in a dark theatre! I was terrified of the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, this movie would have sent me to therapy!

[@Sleepindragon2]

I say this as a kid, maybe 6 or 7 yrs old. I'm 63 now and I still have random dreams of this movie lol

[@Elizabeth-xo9sn]

Loved the music parts.

[@toddstrickland8223]

The 5000 Fingers of Dr T is one of my favorite films. Saw it on TV as a kid and it was trippy, but I always remember thinking "Yes, this movie really is from the kid's point of view!" No moralizing, no lessons to be learned, no GROWING UP! Good is good and bad is bad and any 8 year old already can tell the difference. Bart does not change one bit from beginning to end and that is GREAT! He never NEEDED to in the first place! I can't think of film that captures the magic (and terror) of childhood better!

[@martinphilip8998]

I only discovered this movie as an adult. It’s a classic Cold War film. My mother used to have us watch Mighty Mouse as they were operettas. He was my hero and my mother once showed me a mouse she’d trapped and told me she’d killed Mighty Mouse. Wow! That’s something you don’t say to a five year boy.

[@667Mumble]

The actor who plays Dr. Terwiliker is the same acter who voices Captain Hook in Disney's Peter Pan!!!

[@Taydar]

It was driving me nuts trying to figure out where I heard that voice from.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

LOL, his name was Hans Conried. He had a long, distinguished career of character roles.

[@rrsaga]

That’s what I was going to say.. Hans

[@joeybaseball7352]

​@@ricardocantoral7672😂 it's literally like these people don't know that actors play many roles. They think that they only did one or two roles and nothing else ever again.

[@gooeydude574]

Thanks for this, now I hear it

[@thatswhatshesaid2777]

I’m just surprised at how Dr Seuss’s architectural style made it into real life. But now after being reminded of the elevator operator and his eyes I wanna forget

[@yosefdemby8792]

Kudos to Rudolph Sternad!

[@Serai3]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. The 50's was just not ready for Seuss's weirdass genius.

[@zimriel]

it looks like early Tim Burton or Richard Elfman, maybe Terry Gilliam.

[@Serai3]

@@zimriel No, Tim Burton looks somewhat like Dr. Seuss. Respect the original.

[@switchmasterluke1630]

I love The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T so much that I actually own a copy. It's one of my favourite fantasy films of the 1950s. The child star, Tommy Rettig (of "Lassie" fame) did a great job with the material he had been given, and Hans Conreid was an excellent villain.

[@Ashrudel]

I remember randomly coming across this movie sometime after the search for Dr Seuss aired. Young me was not prepared for Dr. T.

[@steveandme63]

I watched this as a child and had horrible nightmares. It was many years before I found anyone who had also seen it and for a while I thought I'd just imagined it.

[@boogerie]

I saw it on TV when I was little. The moment where the boy calls out to his mother and she doesn't respond because she's in a trance was terrifying.

[@billybarnett9518]

To Seuss' credit, that's a very realistic nightmare scenario for a kid. Your parent just paying no mind to you anymore, no more love, doesn't even acknowledge your presence anymore.

[@jasonblalock4429]

I'm shocked this movie isn't better known, even now. It deserves to be a cult classic. Yeah, it's a deeply flawed film, but it's just so *weird* and visually inventive. Plus Hans Conreid was one of the all-time great hammy villain actors, and he's in rare form throughout. Really, I think its big problem is that it came out at the wrong time. If it had released during the war, it would have been seen as an absurdist anti-fascist fantasy. In the 60s, it would have fit right in with a growing counterculture scene which also appreciated camp. And if it had come out in the 70s-80s, it would have undoubtedly found an audience on home video, like happened with the original Willy Wonka. But the early 50s were just the worst possible time for such a surreal campy work.

[@KenLieck]

It is a cult classic by definition.

[@billybarnett9518]

I'd actually be interested in seeing the original cut before the studio reshot it and cut it to pieces. Test screenings are tricky, sometimes they can help a film, but other times they can hurt a film. A lot of the complaints from test screenings of Thomas And The Magic Railroad for example seemed rather ridiculous to me. It's also worth mentioning that the director of this film appeared to not have been Seuss' choice, but the head of the studio's choice, Kramer was forbidden to direct it.

[@jasonblalock4429]

@@billybarnett9518 Sadly, the chances of the original cut surviving are next to zero. Studios didn't keep rough cuts around back then. In many cases, they were deliberately destroyed - like happened to Welles' original version of The Magnificent Ambersons.

[@WayneRamquist]

It's not a flawed film at all

[@HyperspacePictures]

The 5,000 Fingers of Doctor T is a masterpiece! My favorite kid fantasy. The Wizard of Oz and other similar fair fall short of this incredible vision from the one and only Dr. Seuss! Thank You for posting. I look forward to experiencing more of these wonders by this great cartoonist and visionary artist.

[@ThomasMaczura-c7i]

This guy says it was buried for decades.. How did YOU see it ?

[@billybarnett9518]

Probably on bootleg I'd imagine. ​@@ThomasMaczura-c7i

[@frofrozzty]

I have been low-key waiting for a 500 Fingers video from you ever since I discovered your channel. Had it on VHS as a kid and absolutely loved it, I'm so hype for this video

[@theothervault]

Awesome! Hope it lived up to the hype!

[@anthonydiaz2185]

This film would do so well nowadays, I'm sure of it. I need to find where to watch it. Those boring old-timers and studio execs weren't ready for his genius.

[@shuttittuppitt9355]

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[@larryfreda5208]

Roald Dahl wrote the same kind of stories and was considered a genius

[@YOSSARIAN313]

Road dahl stories are for an older audience they aren't very similar in tone or style

[@bostonrailfan2427]

their only connection is parodying the times, otherwise nothing about them is similar…and genius is stretching things

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@YOSSARIAN313they only share parody as a link, nothing else is the same

[@berryhomchas]

In my younger childhood chronic illness often kept me from school. I amused myself with the daily afternoon movie, which I patiently waited for after my Mom’s interminable soap operas (The Edge of Night, As the World Turns, The Guiding Light…) to finish before taking over the TV for an MGM musical, a Roy Rogers movie or…The 500 Fingers of Dr. Terwilliger! What a delight that was! So different than the usual Hollywood fare. I hadn’t heard of Dr. Seuss before this but when I was back in school I looked for & enjoyed his books Thank-you for another BTS look at a creative genius! I look forward to enjoying Part One!

[@paulnelson5144]

Funny that so many of us recall seeing a “buried” movie on TV as children…

[@ThomasMaczura-c7i]

Exactly ! And nobody seems to be realizing that this whole premise is a lie.

[@WayneRamquist]

It wasn't buried I saw it many times growing up it was all over TV

[@fugithegreat]

Yeah, because it was a flop that meant that it was cheap and easy filler to put on tv.

[@stumpybear60]

The first time I heard about the movie and watched it was in the mid 1980s. A very late night movie on an Atlanta TV channel was showing it. It was just unusual enough to keep me watching till the end. This Atlanta station used the clip where the kid, wearing the happy fingers beanie, was peeking out of the hole going to Dr. T’s and his Mom’s rooms. They would play it forward and reverse using it between shows as a promo for their station. Just around 2019, during the covid-19 isolation, I found a DVD of the movie and bought it. Even though it’s more like a horror movie, I still enjoy watching it.

[@jayducharme]

Wonderful overview! I saw Dr. T when I was a child and it terrified me. Scenes from that movie stayed with me through adulthood. (I eventually became a musician, so go figure.) I watched it again a few years ago and I was really impressed. I wish there was an uncut version to see what Seuss' vision actually was. But even without that, it's still one of the most unique movies ever made.

[@theothervault]

So glad you enjoyed it!

[@GhoulishTeatime]

Is it though? Just seems like tim burton mixed with rhold dhall

[@fugithegreat]

this film was made years before either Dahl published his first children's novel and decades before Tim Burton's first films. There have been many weird films since then that may also be as absurd and surreal as this one, but I can think of none that are even very similar to this.

[@daschwah]

1) This movie is f**king incredible. Like “The Forbidden Zone” for fourth-graders, and unbelievably entertaining. 2) Seuss never made another film. Cheese title, this was his only feature movie, not his “darkest.”

[@theothervault]

Nope - not his only feature movie. Design for Death came out 3 years before Dr. T.

[@zimriel]

I was just thinking of Forbidden Zone!

[@AlexMcGillvrey]

It may be a crazy weird movie, but it's still very imaginative.

[@hermes_job_observer144]

Watched it on TCM everytime it came on. I bought the dvd and showed it to whoever was willing to watch it. It's so absurd and surreal and is truly a bizzarre masterpiece everyone's gotta see once. It's ridiculous but also a one of a kind film imo.

[@Valerie-oc3kw]

I'd love to see it.

[@connorupton4200]

Great video, I love how you don’t just recap the movie but put it into context to talk broader about Dr. Seuss and his life. Really enjoyable to learn more about him.

[@theothervault]

Thanks so much!

[@gljm]

I saw this movie as a little kid and loved it. I currently have a original, rare, full sized movie poster of the film framed on my Living Room wall.

[@TheHauntedWafflehouse]

Holy crap! I saw this movie once when I was very very young, and it always stuck in mind even though the memory was vague. All I remembered was the green background, the little boy in the weird outfit running away from a group of people, and the giant green balls (lol). I always wondered what it was or if I had just imagined it all!

[@cpnscarlet]

I remember Dr. T being broadcast during the 1975 Christmas season. So many kids in my freshman HS class watched it and we were amazed. We knew this was a surreal classic.

[@empressmarowynn]

I remember my dad and I stumbling across this at a Blockbuster one time and it looked so wild we absolutely had to rent it. We loved it. It's completely unhinged in all the best ways. Dad got a copy of it and we watched it so many times.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

Also, just imagine; given the time-period and Seuss's itinerary, it's entirely possible that one of the children he met might've been a young Hayao Miyazaki... =)

[@safebox36]

Gotta respect someone who can confront their past actions and learn from them.

[@18skunk18]

What a beautiful ending for Dr. Seuss. Never trust That people way. Go see it for yourself. Thank you for making this video. Happy new year.

[@ghosthost100]

The Other Vault, you need to also do Maurice Sendak & Roald Dahl! They're work in children's literature and film is quite overlooked in popular culture.

[@indiatastic]

Shel Silverstein moreso than Dahl. Many Dahl books have become mainstream films several times over: James and giant peach, Matilda, the Witches, all the charlie/Wonka chocolate factory films, bfg

[@BrianNatonski-wt3mv]

​@@indiatasticikr? "Where the Wild Things are" by Spike Jones was a big hit and a commercial success, and all of Dahl's work you've mentioned has been pop culture for decades. However "The giving tree" and many stories out of "Where the sidewalk ends" would make great children's animated stories, and many of his other works especially "The Great Smoke Off" would make fantastic adult stories!!

[@ChillerThriller]

I saw this movie as it aired on MeTv one night as it was airing on Svengoolie. The scene of the plumber and the boy putting thumbs together also make my skin crawl.

[@kaelang12]

My cousin played this at her house when I was a kid, and it stuck with me ever since. Now I can't help but think that Terwilliker looks and acts like Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf lol

[@TATOOINETABLEFLIP]

The 5000 Fingers of Dr T was one of my favorite movies as a child in the 70s. It’s wild to think of the controversial ride it took! About time for a rewatch, I think! Also really cool that Dr Seuss lived what he preached: check out the bit about his travels to Japan, and the book he subsequently wrote because of it. Amazing little doco! Well done! I’m about to dig into Part One.

[@stuartdemerse7759]

OMG!! I knew this film existed and wasn't just some random memory of a sketch or something. I saw this as a kid but the only thing I could remember about it was the "happy fingers" hats. Now I need to go rewatch it again that I have the name to look for it.

[@fugithegreat]

I bet there are many kids who saw this but thought later that it was just a fever dream 😅

[@suspiciousparticulate]

Buried?! It's available on 4 streaming services and my local public library right now...!

[@jimprice9703]

But before the interwebs, it was virturally unknown to any but the most dedicated of film historians, and Seussian scholars for literally decades.

[@inanimatecarbongod]

I kind of wish he'd waited a couple of years so all that madness could've at least been filmed in Cinemascope. It really is kind of unhinged and out there for early 1950s Hollywood, I'm somehow not at all surprised that it bombed at the time, and I'm looking forward to revisiting it on blu ray now that I've got it.

[@nuaru100]

"What makes you think I'd WANT to be your father?" HAHA! Love it. I recorded this movie off a UHF station on one of the first VCRs I ever owned. I don't remember it being in color! Those hats ......

[@ChrisGurin]

The combination of surrealism and the ultra-saturated color makes it worth watching... especially when stoned.

[@comedyvideo]

It was 'buried' for awhile (we're talking a few decades) but thankfully can seen pretty easily these days. And it's TERRIFIC. Way ahead of its time. Love it!

[@melissataylor9880]

I discovered this movie about 30 years ago. My son and I love it, and my grandkids still watch that old VHS tape to this day. So many quotable lines!

[@WaverBoy]

This criminally underrated film is brilliant in all ways

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

I really don't see the problem; there's a REASON '5000 Fingers' has gained a moderate cult-status over the years! Even Matt Groening is a self-proclaimed fan; Sideshow Bob's whole persona, not to mention his real last name, are based directly on Hans Conried's character! (not to mention the fact that this movie was one of my personal favorites growing up) =)

[@yosefdemby8792]

Actually, Groening named Sideshow Bob's real last name after one of the streets in his hometown of Springfield Oregon.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

@@yosefdemby8792 That's not even the only example; if you do the research, you'll find several more easter-eggs related to this movie scattered throughout the series. ; )

[@jeffdroog]

Yes...Because P e d o s exist.

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@BuckarooBanzai84 Name one other.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

@@yosefdemby8792 Exactly what I said before; Sideshow Bob's whole personality and mannerisms were inspired by Hans Conried. Besides, he's openly said so in interviews. If you want to know more, you can look it up for yourself. There would be no point to me explaining everything because you wouldn't recognize the references anyway. ; )

[@yogabear7140]

Omg I vaguely remember this movie, I got to pick a movie out for our class one time from the schools selections and I chose this haha I don’t remember the classes reaction but I’m sure they weren’t happy with me.

[@CrystalClearNews]

this movie was shown on TV afternoon movies for years during the 1960s and 70s, so it wasn't buried. Plus it was in the Stanley Kramer collection of DVDs some os us Baby Boomers loved this film tremendously

[@dw7493]

This movie looks epic dude. I've never even heard of it.

[@joestrike8537]

I'm another fervent fan of "5,000 Fingers," so much so I named my (mostly imaginary) production company " *Very* Atomic Entertainment LLC." No matter how many times I watch this movie, I always crack up at the end of the "Dress Me" song when his butlers shower him with rose petals. As a side note I've fallen in love with the Illumination animated version of "The Grinch" from 2018. It's such a great take on the character, changing him from capital "E" evil to a lonely misanthrope who's still capable of caring about others. (Obvious from the beginning when they show the affection he and his dog Max have for each other.) After all, it's not that he has no heart; it's just stunted and in need of feeling love to grow. The film is also filled with wonderful comedy beats, as when he's gorging on comfort food. The end of the film, when he's anxious and uncertain about joining the Whovians' Christmas dinner is a very *human* moment.

[@popcorn9791]

Like wow! That's so awesome and Is so interesting...like wow. Woo wee. Super duper.

[@GodofMasks]

Still my favorite documentarian, and another fantastic video. Know I've said pretty much the same thing before but I am consistently impressed with how every video has such an engaging narrative through-line. Some documentaries just kind of lay events out and it's like digesting little individual packets of information and maybe you remember one or two things that were really interesting. But you really know how to make it a memorable story. Must take a lot of work to get right!

[@theothervault]

Thanks! I'm just thrilled whenever my stuff connects with others, so I really appreciate this!

[@edryba4867]

I had no idea “The 5000 Fingers Of Dr. T” was BURIED. I first saw the movie on KNXT (now KCBS-TV, Channel 2, Los Angeles)’s “The Early Show” back in the 1960’s, when I was 9 or 10 years old, and they just ran movies in the afternoon… then didn’t see it again for 40 years. But it’s so weird, fun, and TERRIFYING(!), I never forgot about it. I’m sure it had an effect on me… among other things, I became a musician and multi-instrumentalist, Radio DJ, and TV Director. “5000 Fingers” has always been one of my favorite movies!

[@ThomasMaczura-c7i]

It was never BURIED. It was on tv for decades and only this century disappeared simply because its an old movie... This guy is just... Lookin for views.

[@rrrosadorr]

I remember seeing the "5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" on local New York City TV in the 1970's as a kid. For several years, it was always shown around Christmas time on WWOR-TV (Channel 9). Sometimes Dr. T was broadcasted along with "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" (1964) as a double feature. It was bizarre campy fun.

[@Lin10uson]

I am so-absolutely so-happy that you helped me to uncover this film because I have been trying to remember and think of a way to search for it for years. I remember watching it as a kid because my either step-grandfather or sperm donor had it playing while I was in the room at age 7yr.s, or so. I remember being just as disturbed as I was intrigued by what was my introduction to a dystopian world (gathering from my recollection, at least). I remember the solemn and unsettling overtones and the Hitler-esque undertones coupled with the dichotomy of a family thrown in the middle of this grey and creepily unfurling world. I always thought that this film had something to do with Dr. Seuss, but I couldn't place why, seeing as I couldn't remember the film. Aside from the aforementioned, all that I could recall were winding corridors and stairwells-I just didn't recall their architecture & aesthetic.

[@StarryStuff]

LOVE this film. When coming across something puzzling, my spouse and I often have the "Is it atomic? Yes sir, VERY atomic!" exchange. My friend introduced this to me as an adult in the 80's. I would have loved it as a kid.

[@jackhume1525]

I stumbled upon Dr Terwiliker in the middle of the night as a kid and was so freaked out by the bizarre surrealism. It was somewhere in the middle of the movie and I had no god damn clue what was going on in the freakish nightmare I was watching. I haven't thought about this movie since that night something like 20 years ago.

[@pinkushatejar]

Holy shit I saw this movie dozens of times as a kid and have had weird dreams all about it for years, but had no idea what it was or whether it was just a dream or not.

[@MAXXWORX]

Thanks for the deep dive and letting me know about the 5000 Fingers movie, found it and will watch it. Looks so bizarre, but i like that in the old movies. Happy new year.

[@rachelspencer777]

This is so cool. I had never heard about his trip to Japan OR his time in Hollywood. Thanks for the great video!

[@maru4361]

I love the atomic air wick bottle in that movie.

[@williamwright9681]

Brilliantly crafted segment on Dr. Seuss!

[@danielturner336]

I remember the time when this movie just appeared on VHS at our local library, back in the early 90s. I rented it immediately because I was at total Seusshead.*God*, that was such a weird film. For the longest time, I thought it was old-timey due it being based on an unpolished manuscript that he wrote back in the fifties or something. I was super surprised to later find out that the movie had literally been filmed before Dr. Seuss had even started his career as a children's writer.

[@bobcatwarnke8314]

I want to take my hat off to you for displaying two absolutely fabulous props from rocket man and the evil dead! It is always the little things and I appreciate those very much!

[@jdaviqwerty]

I remember Gerald McBoing-Boing in 1953. A great cartoon with double entendre for adults

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

How strange...I never had the impression that The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T was a failure. On the other hand, I'm not even sure how I learned it existed, but I've had a copy for years.

[@petertrei]

First saw this around 1968, same age as the protagonist. I've always enjoyed it immensely.

[@BBI_Strange_Agent]

I saw this at a revival theater in the late 80s and was completely blown away. It deserves re-evaluation.

[@SamArt6607]

7:29 i recognize this because i have a Hellboy 2004 Disc that randomly plays it.

[@PilotFlight2Mars]

Dr T almost sounds like a way to work through the trauma of war service.

[@canonen100]

I was home from school with the flue when I saw this film. I was delirious with fever. I still remember it.

[@nasticanasta]

First off when I first saw this back in the 60's I didn't know the name of it, I just remembered it and trying to figure out the name haunted me my whole childhood until someone knew what I was talking about and told me the name...this was a great kids film!

[@bobparker8294]

I saw it as an afternoon movie on a local independent station in the 1970s. Unforgettable.

[@TomSherwood-z5l]

I saw that movie as a kid on TV and had never heard of it. So surreal and strange, I was impressed by it. Saw it again on TV many years later. Still thought it was good entertainment and still off the charts.

[@jsEMCsquared]

This movie freaked me out! Still does!

[@mrmxyzptlk-imp]

Love this movie. I have this on dvd and with 7 Faces Of Dr Lao they make a nice double feature on a rainy/snowy day

[@joestrike8537]

Two wonderful fantasies, both with a number as part of their names.

[@nilo70]

I was a baby boomer when this was shown , I absolutely Loved it ! It was on TV in the Sixties. I’ve seen it 4 times over the years.

[@royalsfan]

I remember my second grade class watched this movie. I ended up walking to the school library about 20 minutes in.

[@ModelWhatYouSee]

really great video. Super informative, really good editing. Keep'm coming!

[@dannydom6767]

This is a comfort movie for me, got it on VHS. Best Dr. Seuss interpretation put to screen.

[@ConstantCompanion]

I've seen this one several times. When I was little it gave me bad dreams! It was one of my favorites.

[@richardranke3158]

My uncles loved this movie. I have seen it many times and loved it.

[@PAPAROUSwhatsinthedirt]

Loved The 5000 fingers of Dr. T Hans Conried was an awesome actor!!!

[@NekoBoyOfficial]

Those sets look amazing! It's a shame it bombed in theaters.

[@johnsmith-tt6to]

This movie seems like the basics of a Goosebumps book I read piano lessons can be murder

[@StompGojiStomp]

I don't know how I saw this movie. Totally forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me. I have to find it again.

[@maddog326]

"They're dumping confetti all over the place!" Sorry timmy that's rat poison and aluminum.

[@timhammell394]

As a kid it was a great movie, watched it several times on TV in late '60's. So bizarre.

[@AttemptedVoices]

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[@theothervault]

Thanks, as always, for adding your own personal touch! Happy holidays!

[@AttemptedVoices]

@@theothervaultTo you as well!

[@rogregen4419]

Saw it as a child and found it bizarre....but it WAS Seuss. I loved it. If it was animated it probably would have had greater acceptance.

[@lunahex]

Oh my god, I remember catching the end of this as a kid. Had no idea what it was

[@bewell256]

wow, what a good video man! 👏👏👏

[@theothervault]

Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it!

[@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage]

This looks like an awesome movie. The actor playing DR. T. is amazing!

[@j.r.marchley1563]

5000 Fingers was a remarkable fantasy. Well written and acted. A unique cinematic achievement. I always enjoyed the songs and especially loved the films magnificent score by Frederick Hollander. It's too bad it didn't fare better.

[@Monkofmagnesia]

According to Dr. Seuss, the film's creator and co-writer, one of the 150 boys vomited on the piano while filming. This caused a chain reaction and they were left with 150 vomiting boys. Seuss said later that the film's reviews were similar to this incident (Source: IMDB).

[@wahbwahbwahb]

I remember watching this and thinking the sets were amazingly well crafted. The scene that freaked me out was when the kid is sitting at the piano with the metronome going and screaming something over and over again. Weird weird movie

[@shuttittuppitt9355]

The biggest 'tragedy' of this movie is that (especially visually), this movie is as UN-Seuss like as you can get. (The fact that Seuss' books usually use Seuss style 'bigfoots' instead of humans, while _this_ movie uses humans, didn't help matters.)

[@zimriel]

the set design is Seuss. those sweeping curves and wonky stairs.

[@KA-dx2kz]

Still have a copy on vhs. I used to watch it all the time

[@yaboimccoy8109]

I feel like this is something Turner Classic Movies would play at like 2 in the morning

[@PantheraOnca60]

They showed us _The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T_ at school when I was in elementary school. I'm still traumatized, lol.

[@fugithegreat]

I'm not sure how or why, but growing up in the 80s we had a recorded VHS copy of this film. It was so bizarre and my mom hated it (although I imagine she must have been the one to record it off of the tv) but my siblings and I watched it a lot because it was just so bizarre. We also loved other nightmare fuel like Return to Oz, so I guess we were just damaged goods. 😂