The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) Movie Review

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  • Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025

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  • @BoycottChinaa
    @BoycottChinaa 11 дней назад

    I saw this somehow, super young, and thought it was just some fever dream about a horrorfying piano.. No, it actually was real!

  • @bobsanders9114
    @bobsanders9114 12 дней назад

    In many ways, a fantastic folly of a movie - imaginative, melodic, and with lustrous 3-strip dye transfer Technicolor. It's just too bad that a dullard like Peter Lind Hayes - the early 1950s conception, perhaps, of the charismatic Dad figure - is so front and center - he renders everything he does into the land of the deeply dull. Not much more exciting is Mary Healy - she has a moment or two, but the lack of energy when these two are on screen together pretty much kills the show. On the plus side, Tommy Rettig was a child-actor find - he enlivens everything. And Hans Conried - as always one step away from comedy schizophrenia - is amusing and able. But even with a recasting of Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy (think, oh, I dunno, with Steve Cochran and Betty Garret in the lead roles - two early 1950s performers who actually had some energy onscreen), this show, with its imagination and essentially subversive plot line, couldn't have made it in the 1950s. Nevertheless, it's a must-watch. The highlight, of course, is the magical (if too short) musician's ballet in the deepest cave dungeon: it's breathtaking and wonderful, albeit with one badly missed opportunity - the ballet's final moment, CRITICALLY harmed by the fast cutaway at the conclusion. If only Kramer or Rowland had had the good sense to hold the shot while the disconsolate, muttering musicians walked away into their hidden places from their brief moment of expressive triumph. Runner-up - the great elevator scene. All in all, WORTH IT, but try not to be too disappointed at the casting of the lead roles. It was, after all, the 50s. (By the way, watch for George Chakiris in the Dungeon Ballet: he's in there.)