In the wake of the success of Gerald McBoing-Boing, Geisel submitted a live-action storyline for The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. Bart escapes from the piano and runs down the street to play, with his dog Sport joyfully capering at his heels. Zabladowski notices Heloise and offers to drive her to town in his jeep. The movie ends on a hopeful note for Bart, when Mr. The enslaved boys run riot, and the "atomic" noise-sucker explodes in spectacular fashion, bringing Bart out from his dream. The two construct a noise-sucking contraption which ruins the mega-piano's opening concert. Zabladowski, who was hired to install the Institute's lavatories ahead of a vital inspection, but only after skepticism and foot-dragging is Zabladowski convinced to help. Bart's mother has become Terwilliker's hypnotized assistant and bride-to-be, and Bart must dodge the Institute's guards as he scrambles to save his mother and himself. He built a piano so large that it requires Bart and 499 other boys (hence, 5,000 fingers) to play it. In the dream, Bart is trapped at the surreal Terwilliker Institute, where the piano teacher is a madman dictator who has imprisoned non-piano-playing musicians. While hammering at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a musical dream. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's influence, and gripes to their plumber, August Zabladowski ( Peter Lind Hayes), without result. The bane of Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he endures under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Young Bart Collins ( Tommy Rettig) lives with his widowed mother Heloise ( Mary Healy). The film stars Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, and Tommy Rettig. It was directed by Roy Rowland, with many uncredited takes directed by producer Stanley Kramer. Seuss), who wrote the story, screenplay, and lyrics. It was the only feature film written by Theodor Seuss Geisel ( Dr. is a 1953 American musical fantasy film about a boy who dreams himself into a fantasy world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher enslaving children to practice piano forever.
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