OSCARS '67: Doctor Dolittle
Total. Garbage.
CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of incidents of animal cruelty and negligence, mentions of racism and anti-Semitism.
Well, we did it, everyone. We found the worst movie. Literally, this is now our worst rated film of all time, and it’s not even close. The entire production was a fiasco of epic proportions, and that’s before Rex Harrison’s complete and utter lack of energy in the role. Seriously, there’s nearly two hours of movie before anything of consequence happens in this movie, and even then it’s still pretty awful. And the only reason it’s on our list is that it got nominated for 9 Academy Awards. We continue our ‘67 Oscars series with the abominable, abysmal, awful Doctor Dolittle (1967) on this episode of Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Clip from the main title sequence of Doctor Dolittle was written and composed by Leslie Bricusse and conducted by Lionel Newman. © 1967 Apjac Productions, Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Renewed 1995 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Clip from “Star Wars (Main Theme)” composed by John Williams and performed by The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Williams. Copyright 1977 Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Excerpt taken from Babes in Toyland (1986), © 1986 Orion Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved.
Excerpt taken from “In the Heat of the Night,” written by Quincy Jones with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and performed by Ray Charles. Copyright 1967 United Artists Records, Inc.
