Doctor Dolittle is a movie directed by Richard Fleischer in 1967 and based on the book Doctor Dolittle’s Circus by Hugh Lofting, first published in 1922. The movie features Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Peter Bull, Muriel Landers, and others.
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Storyline
Dr. John Dolittle lives in a small English village where he specializes in caring for and verbally communicating with animals. When Dr. Dolittle is unjustly sent to an insane asylum for freeing a lovesick seal from captivity, his animals and two closest human friends, Matthew Mugg and Tommy Stubbins, liberate him. Afterward, they join Emma Fairfax and set out by boat to find a famed and elusive creature: the Great Pink Sea Snail.
Movie vs Book
Year
1967
Minutes
152
Movie Rate
6.20
Source: IMDb
Movie
Doctor Dolittle
Director: Richard Fleischer
Country: USA
Year: 1967
Length: 2h32m
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Year
1922
Pages
208
Book Rate
7.84
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Book
Doctor Dolittle's Circus
Author: Hugh Lofting
Country: UK
First published in: 1922
Length: 208 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Doctor Dolittle
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“When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.”
SIDNEY SHELDON (Writer, Screenwriter)
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