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Released
1953 · FILM

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

The Wonder Musical of the Future!

Directed by
Runtime
89 min
FamilyFantasyMusic
Streaming on
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Synopsis

Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. He is required to take piano lessons from the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker, which he detests. Bart believes his mother has come under Terwilliker’s sinister influence and complains about it to plumber August Zabladowski, but receives little help. While laboriously practicing his lessons, Bart falls asleep and experiences a fantastical musical dream.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Al ClarkShot by Franz PlanerScored by Friedrich HollaenderDesigned by Rudolph Sternad

Also known as

  • Die 5000 Finger des Dr. T.de
  • Los cinco mil dedos del Dr. Tes
  • Les 5000 doigts du Dr. Tfr
  • Le 5000 dita del Dr. Tit

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