To fund a voyage to find the legendary , Dolittle’s friends—the cat's-meat man Matthew Mugg and young Tommy Stubbins—help him showcase a rare Pushmi-Pullyu (a two-headed llama-like creature) at Albert Blossom’s circus. While there, Dolittle befriends Sophie the Seal, who is homesick for her husband at the North Pole. Arrest and Escape
: Eventually, a message arrives from England: the animals have gone on "strike" to protest his sentence, forcing the authorities to pardon him. In a grand finale, the Doctor constructs a saddle for a Giant Luna Moth and flies back to Puddleby in triumph. Behind the Scenes Facts
After surviving a shipwreck, the crew arrives at the floating . There, Dolittle uses his medical skills to cure a variety of ailments, eventually treating the Great Pink Sea Snail itself for a severe cold. Doctor Dolittle(1967)
: Because he is still a wanted man in England, Dolittle sends his friends back home inside the snail’s watertight shell while he stays behind.
While the film is a light-hearted musical on screen, its production was famously chaotic: To fund a voyage to find the legendary
Encouraged by his talking macaw, Polynesia, who teaches him the secret of animal linguistics, Dolittle abandons human medicine to become a world-renowned veterinarian. Here is the story of his grand 1967 musical adventure: The Great Expedition
In the sleepy English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in 1845, Dr. John Dolittle (portrayed by Rex Harrison) is a man whose medical practice has gone to the dogs—literally. His human patients have fled, terrified by the rabbits in the pantry and the hedgehog on the sofa. In a grand finale, the Doctor constructs a
The doctor's kindness leads to trouble when he disguises Sophie in women's clothing and tosses her into the ocean to free her. Witnesses believe he has murdered a woman, and his claims that he was "talking to a seal" land him in a mental institution. His loyal animal and human friends stage a daring rescue, and together with Emma Fairfax, they set sail on a haphazard boat. Sea Star Island