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FINE: "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.’’ FAIR TO FINE: "The Member of the Wedding."
It is waged through the endless corridors, the dungeons and the battlements of the Institute. There isn’t a shot without a laugh and, of course, the rights of small boys to play hookey from piano practice are vindicated in the end. The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. is directed with obvious gusto by Roy Rowland. impressively mounted (goodness knows" what the sets cost), and beautifully photographed in Technicolor by a master cameraman, Frank Planer. Hans Conried makes ‘Dr. T. a truly comic creation, Peter Lind Hayes is the nicest plumber you ever met, and Mary Healy as romantic a young mother as a small boy could wish for. The picture is, in short, the kind of happy, wholesome one which most parents wish their children could see more often. Perhaps, with the holidays coming up fast, someone will be found with sufficient faith in the. good taste of ordinary people to give it a fair trial.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 16
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172BAROMETER New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 16
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