Dolittle(1967) - Doctor

While the film is a light-hearted musical on screen, its production was famously chaotic:

: Eventually, a message arrives from England: the animals have gone on "strike" to protest his sentence, forcing the authorities to pardon him. In a grand finale, the Doctor constructs a saddle for a Giant Luna Moth and flies back to Puddleby in triumph. Behind the Scenes Facts Doctor Dolittle(1967)

: Because he is still a wanted man in England, Dolittle sends his friends back home inside the snail’s watertight shell while he stays behind. While the film is a light-hearted musical on

To fund a voyage to find the legendary , Dolittle’s friends—the cat's-meat man Matthew Mugg and young Tommy Stubbins—help him showcase a rare Pushmi-Pullyu (a two-headed llama-like creature) at Albert Blossom’s circus. While there, Dolittle befriends Sophie the Seal, who is homesick for her husband at the North Pole. Arrest and Escape To fund a voyage to find the legendary

After surviving a shipwreck, the crew arrives at the floating . There, Dolittle uses his medical skills to cure a variety of ailments, eventually treating the Great Pink Sea Snail itself for a severe cold.