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Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
66 audience votes
Key crew
- Dr. SeussScreenplay
- Roy RowlandDirector
- Allan ScottScreenplay
- Friedrich HollaenderOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Peter Lind HayesAugust Zabladowski
- Mary HealyHeloise Collins
- Hans ConriedDr. Terwilliker
- Tommy RettigBartholomew Collins
- Noel CravatSgt. Lunk
- Robert HeasleyUncle Judson
- Jack HeasleyUncle Whitney
- George ChakirisDancer
- Alan AricElevator Operator (uncredited)
- Henry KulkyStroogo (uncredited)
- Tony ButalaBoy Pianist (uncredited)
- Kim CharneyKim - Boy in Line (uncredited)
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Themes
plumberpiano lessonsmusical