Various times through the movie, Heloise Collins's pink scarf alternates from her shoulder/arm, changing positions occasionally.
It is clear in some scenes that Bart is not really playing the pianosometimes he misplaces his fingers, sometimes he does not move his fingers correctly, sometimes he even fails to press down the keys.
When Bart hides in the large vase, he places a bunch of flowers on his head.
When the guards lift him from the pot, they are on his head.
In the cut-out shot moments later, the flowers have disappeared.
In the first scene in the Tewilliger institute, Dr.
buttons his jacket closed after putting his baton away.
Immediately after in the long shot, his jacket is open, then in a closer shot, it's buttoned again.
When Bart climbs the huge ladder to escape the guards, when he jumps off of the ladder, you can clearly see a thick wire holding him.
Throughout the whole of the instrumental scene, with the various performers, there are so many continuity, revealing and a/v mismatch goofs that it would be impossible to record them all.
When Dr.
T catches Bart, his mother and Mr.
Zabladowski trying to escape (after the fight with the twins), he is wearing a lavender coat with black trim when he first appears and says, "I, on the other hand, am inclined to doubt that.
" For the rest of the sequence, he wears a black coat with a pink treble clef and white stripes representing the five-line staff.
Bart Collins is haunted by Dr. Terwilliker's piano lessons.
This movie is more entertaining than anything that will be released in 2019, 2020 and hell, probably even the next ten years. Seriously, the fact that this movie exists and somehow escaped into theaters - for a very short time - astounds me.
This movie is one of the most bizarre and random films I have ever seen. It combines a mind-boggling storyline (a kid dreams he's trapped in a castle ruled by his satanic piano teacher who is setting up a piano camp for 500 players), intriguing characters (the heroic, down-to-earth plumber, the helpless, beautiful, damsel/mother in distress, the all-American kid on the block, and the disturbing, foppish, freak of a villain, Dr.
Impeccably inverted Masterpiece that could be the most unseen, unadulterated, unsung, great Movies ever. It was an Atomic Bomb at the box office and with critics and as such was swept away by indifference, fear, and misunderstanding in the cookie-cutter 1950's.
Young Bart Collins (Tommy Rettig) has only one enemy in the world. It is his piano teacher Professor Terwilliker (Hans Conried).
I had no clue whatsoever that Dr. Zeuss wrote a movie.
This film was the first script by a then unknown Dr. Seuss.
Much lauded and little seen, this surrealistic musical falls somewhere on the fantasy scale between the Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka and features the talents of Mary Healy, Peter Lind Hayes, Hans Conried as the villain, and Tommy Rettig as the young boy whose nightmare is the core of the film. Written by the immortal Dr.
Now this is something of a find, and of course I wonder if I had seen Dr. Seuss' The 5,000 Fingers of Dr.
