Doctor Dolittle

IMDb link: 0061584
IMDb rating: 6.2 (11,070 votes)
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Family, Romance, Musical
Director: Richard Fleischer, Richard Attenborough, Anthony Newley
Cast: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar and others

Release date: 19 Dec 1967
Release year: 1967
Runtime: 152 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: 1840s, veterinarian, england, africa, talking animal, based on novel, character name as title, two word title, dr. dolittle character, doctor

Plot:

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.

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