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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Doctor Dolittle / Twentieth Century Fox ; an Arthur P. Jacobs production ; screenplay by Leslie Bricusse ; produced by Arthur P. Jacobs ; directed by Richard Fleischer ; produced by APJAC Productions, Inc.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, California : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2000]

Description:

1 videodisc (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

video file DVD video

Summary:

Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on a variety of four-legged and fine-feathered patients. See his secret cures and watch as ordinary and exotic animals talk, dance, and sing.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: G CHV rating: G.

Subjects:

Lofting, Hugh, 1886-1947 -- Film adaptations.

Dolittle, Doctor -- Drama.

Human-animal communication -- Drama.

Animals -- Drama.

Genre:

Musical films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Fleischer, Richard, film director.

Jacobs, Arthur P., film producer.

Bricusse, Leslie, composer, lyricist.

Harrison, Rex, actor.

Eggar, Samantha, actor.

Newley, Anthony, actor.

Attenborough, Richard, actor.

Dix, William, actor.

Based on (work): Lofting, Hugh, 1886-1947. Story of Doctor Dolittle.

Based on (work): Lofting, Hugh, 1886-1947. Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.

Based on (work): Lofting, Hugh, 1886-1947. Doctor Dolittle's circus.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, presenter.

Apjac Productions, production company.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., publisher.

Other Title:

Dr. Dolittle

French title: Extravagant Docteur Dolittle

Container of (work): Doctor Dolittle (Motion picture : 1967)

Notes:

Originally released as motion picture in 1967.

Based on the Doctor Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting.

Widescreen 2.35:1.

Bonus feature: theatrical trailer.

For private home use only.

Director of photography, Robert Surtees; art direction, Jack Martin Smith, Ed Graves; choreography, Herbert Ross; musical direction by Lionel Newman & Alex Courage; music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse; editors, Samuel E. Beetley, Marjorie Fowler.

Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, William Dix.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen; Dolby Digital 4.0 and stereo. (English), mono. (French).

In English with optional soundtrack in French and optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Academy Awards, 1968: Best Effects, Special Effects (L.B. Abbott) ; Best Music, Original Song (Bricusse, "Talk to the animals")

Golden Globes, 1968: Best Supporting Actor (Attenborough)

LCCN:

48270598

Publisher Number:

2000494

Other Number:

48270598

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

911759

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Doctor D