The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Name: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Director: Roy Rowland
Released: 1953
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig, Jack Heasley

1953 · 89 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 4,676 VOTES · DIR. Roy Rowland

Overview

Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.

Dialogue Timeline — 879 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:03:12 No! No! Get away! Get away!

00:05:28 Listen, like Dr. Terwilliker says in the book:

00:08:00 You certainly aren't helping me maintain discipline.

00:12:26 Sport! Sporty!

00:15:36 Ping-Pong balls, snowballs, croquet balls or hockey pucks.

00:17:56 We're down here, sir, searching the piano!

00:23:41 Now what are you doing? Just casting, for big-mouth bass.

00:26:32 â™ª Dream stuff â™ª

00:29:29 T-e-r-w-i-l-l-illiker.

00:33:01 my fair name, my integrity!

00:35:02 â™ª What glorious weather for hearts to be blooming â™ª

00:38:03 There will be no further liaisons tonight with the plumber Zabladowski.

00:40:36 â™ª I'd hate to grow like some I know â™ª

00:42:45 Will you shake on that? Oh, sure.

00:58:03 "Pop"? Didn't you know? This makes you my old man.

01:02:47 â™ª We're gruesome one We're gruesome all â™ª

01:04:51 â™ª Unthinkable, stinkable horrible us â™ª

01:08:31 Oh, that isn't the man I'm punishing.

01:10:47 If I could hide a music fix next to that piano

01:15:03 Boy, oh, boy! Am I gonna put that big piano on the fritz!

01:18:42 â™ª Come on and dress me dress me, dress me â™ª

01:21:32 Before me, Dr. Terwilliker

01:23:57 - Will you free my mother? - Free his mother!

01:27:59 Sporty boy! Hiya, Sport.

Cast & Characters

Peter Lind Hayes August Zabladowski Mary Healy Heloise Collins Hans Conried Dr. Terwilliker Tommy Rettig Bartholomew Collins Jack Heasley Uncle Whitney Robert Heasley Uncle Judson Noel Cravat Sgt. Lunk George Chakiris Dancer Alan Aric Elevator Operator Alvin Beam Terwilliker's Valet

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed879

Dialogue density9.9 lines / min

First line00:03:12

Final line01:27:59

Production Record

DirectorRoy Rowland

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes4,676