5000 Fingers Of Dr. T, The (Dr. Seuss) - Trailer (1953) 

Just reaffirming that this wasn't just a fever dream from my childhood.

Can't believe I found this. I have been googling "old movie with piano staircase and music" and similar phrases for the past hour. Finally found it. This movie traumatized me.

I was very young when I saw this. It was like watching a nightmare, but I just couldn't stop watching.

"Dr T is sweet on Mrs C, so is Mr Z, the plummer, who fixes sinks, and knows all the angles." - sounds like a porno

It's amazing. I've wondered all my life about a movie that scared me as a kid, but I didn't know the name. I just remembered an evil teacher, kids in a oppresive world and some scenes like the one in which the boy gets a key inside a metronome while the evil teacher sleeps while earing its sound, and another one where the boy wakes up from the nightmare to find everything was just a bad dream... And I finally found it!!! It has been a really hard search on the internet. I've read the commentaries and it's so funny that people got so scared as me when I saw it.

This shit traumatized me as a child.

I remember when I was in elementary school we all sat on the gym floor to watch this movie and I was scared to death. I think I had nightmares for weeks.

holy god i have unlocked my final memory.

this movie scared me to death growing up.

This is my new passion! Poor Dr. Seuss figured he was being unusually sensitive to children. And the result: nightmares! And it's SUCH a work of art! What a dichotomy!!

A much underrated movie,with dreamlike sequences, amazing sets and design, psychedelic colour, as early as 1953. And all real constructions, no CGI!

I watched this so many times as a kid I’m surprised to hear that so many people were scared by it

Isn't it weird when you watch a movie as a kid and it so much different when you watch as an adult. I had nightmares over the ending while the kids where playing that big piano. Took forever to find this.

This movie scared the hell out of me when I was a kid back in the early 70s. Over the years, I would occasionally remember bits and pieces of the movie, more in particular, the scene of the long piano and the many kids playing the keys. To add to my horror, my mother signed me up for basic piano lessons around the same time that I saw this movie. I refused to play the piano out of fear. As the years passed, I would still remember this movie on occasion. I'm age 49 and for the first time I just googled trying to find this movie and its name which lead me to this youtube page. I just watched this trailer and the scenes still kinda freak me out.

Now this is how you make a f'ing Dr. Seuss movie

Fun Fact: The Goosebumps book Piano lessons can be murder, was inspired by this film

Remember watching this all the time as a child. I loved it.

I've been trying to find this movie for years! As an adult trying to remember this movie, I had turned the hand on top of the boy's cap into a propeller cap in my memory and have been using "film boy propeller cap" in all of my searches. Shockingly, the poster for this movie came up in the Google image search today. I can finally tell my dad I didn't make this up (he thought I had dreamed the movie)!

I watched this as a child and the memory came back to me during a poetry reading group. I also recalled a talking piano which told a child how to play.

Who else saw this as a kid then 15 years later was like I remember a movie with a kid playing the piano then having dreams

This movie scared me to death when I was little, now I am laughing at it......crazy the things the mind of a child does !!!!

I still remember the fear this movie generated in me. I was five or six and had vivid nightmares I can recall now. Being sent off to piano camp and no way to get out of it, my parents telling me, "There's nothing we can do, signed the papers.". FOr years I wondered what that movie was. I'd ask about the movie with the giant piano, and no one acknowledged it. I see it will be on TV today. I am going to record it. :)

I love this movie so hard.

I saw this in the late 50’s at my public school auditorium. Sadly the film broke and i never saw the rest of it until years later it was on television.

This was on TCM late last night. Next time I will definitley stay up to watch it. Remember seeing it when I was young in the 60's also. Love Conried as Dr T. And strangely enough there is a character named Bartholomew Collins in it. (Dark Shadows anyone?) It is a classic!!! And hey, written by Dr Suess? Excellent.

I only just learned of this film by watching old Thats Incredible tv show on youtube. They mentioned Dr T in a commercial

Wonderful movie... I'm grown up with this movie... and I've started to play piano! =)

Once, when I was around 20 and working PT, for some reason everyone decided to go to my manager’s house to watch this. I never got high but I felt like I needed to be by the halfway point.

I just had to google it to make sure I didn’t make it up in my head. This movie has haunted me for 25 years

Many in the Hollywood preview audience walked out after the first 15 minutes of this film. Afterward it was extensively re-edited, resulting in the elimination of about 1/4 of the original songs and something like a half-hour of run-time. It still bombed in general release. Seuss (Geisel) was thereafter considered box office poison and admitted publicly, "I'm not for Hollywood, and they're not for me". The experience almost prevented him from approving licensing for the live-action (Jim Carrey) version of "The Grinch" decades later, in 2000, during the waning years of Seuss's life.

When I was a kid this was my favorite movie.

My mum put me in front of the TV in the 60s to watch this and it freaked me out. It has a distinctly odd and trippy feel to it. Should have had a content warning ;~) And although the cinematography is rather static and pedestrian by modern standards, the lighting is excellent and set design outstanding.

I’d love to see a re make of this movie, I loved it as a kid and still have nightmares about it to this day!

What a great movie. I saw in a country in south America in the 70 nice memories of my childhood.

It is interesting to see the surrealism of Dr. Seuss, he even thought that this film inspired the technique of later surrealist films of the 70s and 80s.

Great remembrance!!! Thanks!

One of my favorites when I was little, to see on a Sunday afternoon :) :)!!

I always liked this movie. Saw it in the late 1950's when I was a kid.

I first saw this in Okinawa of all places, in my dorm on Kadena Air Base. I was nursing a hangover and this happened to be on the American channel. It was odd, I didn’t know anything about this flick at all, just started watching it. It was 1992...

It is currently playing on TUBI !!

The part I remember distinctly from this movie was the teacher complaining about 'screeching violins.'

If you get a chance to see this movie--it's awesome, very strange, bizzare, and oddly touching even--it's a forgotten gem!

loved this movie. watched it all the time when i was like, 5 i think.

The trailer does nothing to show how amazing this film is. It did scare/fascinate me as a child, and I only saw PART of it on a crappy black and white TV. Seeing it on the big screen is an amazing experience, or on DVD. It's funny, magicial, creepy and the music is suprisingly good and quite poignant at times. Suess disowned the film, but I think the creators actually did a great job of capturing his imaginary places and people.

the exact same thing happened to me! it's a very dream like movie, easy to get the two mixed up i think

omg!!!! i remember thinking this movie was so creepy when I was a kid; I also thought it had to do with child molesters somehow. I still get that....

gosh i'd love to see a clip of those roller-skating siamese twins that were connected by their beard... that's my favorite part of the movie!

I bet Terry Gilliam would like this film.

March 10, 2018 on Svengoolie / MeTV !!

I watched this with my dad back when Turner Classic Movies would show “blocks” of movies with an overarching theme. I don’t recall what the theme was at the time I watched this film, but I both enjoyed and was a bit disturbed by the film in question, so it probably had something to do with unintended horror films or something to that effect. 😆

This Has Got to be Re-Release On DVD and BLU-RAY, and It'll have exciting extras.

I love it!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

when I was younger I remember watching it and I'd always get scared at the dungeon part

This movie traumatized me. Can't be the only one.

I watched this in elementary school on the gym floor but then I forgot the name. I just remember at the end they were like... hiding... or something... Absolute nightmare fuel.

The freaked me out in the 60s as a child. I'm hunting down this nightmare to exorcise it from my psyche.

Columbia Pictures released The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T a second time in 1958 with the whole elevator scene cut, under the title Crazy Music.

This movie gave me nightmares as a kid.

Really strange and wonderful.

Where can i download this movie?! It scared me shitless as a kid!

utter nightmare for me to in the early 60s!!

La vi en . los 70's....y desde ahí quede con la imagen de los niños frente a un piano larguísimo....... grabada en la mente

Having watched this film a couple of times it slowly began seeping into my brain...I probably wouldn't trust Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel alone in my kid's nursery.

This movie is saturday nights, 8pm, Svengoolie movie on MeTv. 3/10/18 As a young kid in the 60's, I never heard of nor seen this movie ever. I've red some of your comments below and I may take a look at this movie tonight, just out of curiosity.

Svengoolie will be showing this on MeTV this Saturday 9-01-2018

Watched this whilst high. It was fucking awesome.

As a kid, I head Jean Sheppard pushing this. I had to wait until RU-vid to see it.

The elevator scene scared the crap out of me as a child!

Another reason to love Dr.Suess

I want to see this movie!!! :D

Hans Conried' nameshould have been first in the credits.

Cheese and rice! That's Jason Bourne!

He won't just give you the finger. He'll give you 500!

I loved this movie as a kid - but my parents could barely conceal their disgust at my reenactment of every scene. LOL. They were not fans of this movie.

Hans Conried played Dr. T and voiced Captain Hook in the same year. It is the same actor.

Saw this the outher night for the first time totally wacked

What kind of new hell is this

I watched this when I was probably 7 and I didn’t get the themes this was just like 6ish years ago at the ACMI in Australia and I remember really enjoying it but it was like a horror movie for chlidren

How much did this film make( not a lot, but anyone know how much?)

I don't get why everyone walked out of this movie when it first premired. I guess they couldn't handle Dr. Seuss back then. He was probably too awsome for them to handle and if they stayed any longer, there brains would explode.

They played a part of this before the actual movie at Alamo Drafthouse in San Antonio. It was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen, but that's ADH for you. I had to look it up to find out what it is because it was just so hauntingly bizarre.

Dr.T isent serving green eggs an ham here

i swear i thought i made up this movie in a dream haha for years its haunted me! the bit where he goes in the room n theres like millions of hands on pianos goin "practice makes perfect! practice makes perfect!" still freaks me out haha cant believe its actually real

Netflix has it for rent.

"After the plumber installs the last sink.. disintegrate him"

He looks like Mr. Delazlo from the legend of White Fang.

Plumbers always know all the "angles," right?

anybody know where i can watch / download this movie?

OMGee!! This was My sisters and I favorite movie!! WOULD SOMEONE PLEAZE DOWNLOAD THE MOVIE PU-LEEAASSEE~~~

I think any kid dropped off at a theater to see this in the early '50s would've alternated between being perplexed, bored, stupefied and scornful - and, I guess, possibly scared too (to judge by some of the previous comments.) This movie is extremely peculiar and not particularly good, although I give 'em credit for trying it, at least. It would've been far better as a cartoon than as a live-action movie with real humans.

I can't believe it was written by Dr. Seuss himself!

Este Filme é uma Super-Produção *****

The names of the characters really make it sound like a Sideshow Bob episode of the Simpsons.

I've never been able to understand my fascination with it despite the terrifying nightmares I had. Does anyone know where to find a copy of the complete movie?

On second thought, let's not go there. 'Tis a silly place.

The whammy duel looks more like a dance.

It should have mentioned dr seuss in the trailer

Esse filme marcou minha história de vida, esse filme que vi aos 10 anos de idade me fez apaixonar por cinema e música, aos 72 anos, como gostaria de vê-lo de novo, mas só encontrei trailer, pena

saw this in the 90's on K first and then acid, then E at a dance party somehwhere, it was mental. saw this last week....on my computer......just as strange....

is that the same stairspiral from the great Ziegfeld?