
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
- G
- Year:
- 1953
- 89 min
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Get away! Get away! No!
Go on away!
Go on away!
Here, boy, here.
What's the matter?
Dr. Terwilliker, what happened?
Dreaming again.
I can't leave the room for five minutes.
-What were you dreaming about this time?
-I was being chased by men with nets.
Nets. Why can't you dream
about practicing the piano?
I'll try.
Don't you realize if you don't practice
you'll never become a concert pianist?
Practice makes perfect.
I'm trying to practice.
One month to learn that before I present
all my pupils in a grand concert.
I'm not going to let one dreary little
boy humiliate me. Do you understand?
I don't think the piano's
my instrument.
What other instruments are there,
pray tell?
Scratchy violins?
Screechy piccolos?
Nauseating trumpets?
Et cetera, et cetera!
We'll make a Paderewski
of you yet.
Who?
- Paderewski.
- Oh.
Now, I want you to practice
and practice and practice...
until you are perfect.
Good day, young man.
Well, that's my problem.
Dr. Terwilliker's
the only enemy I've got.
I can't think of one nice thing
to say about him...
because there isn't any.
Bart, darling!
That's my mother.
I like her.
I try to be everything
she wants me to be...
particularly
since my father died.
But, boy, she's as hipped on the piano
as Dr. Terwilliker.
Watch.
Is that as loud as you can play?
Now, now, sweetheart,
not that loud.
And not that soft.
Bart, I hate to hound you.
I know you think I'm a slave driver,
but you really are missing the beats.
Like Dr. Terwilliker
says in the book-
dancing, oh, so fine
and they're mine, all mine
They're mine
They're mine
Now, isn't that just fine
Not three, not five
Not seven and not nine
But ten, all dancing
straight in line
And all of them
Are mine, mine, mine
Yes, they are mine, all mine
That's better.
Now you have it.
I'll get it!
Bart!
I'll get it.
I'll get it.
Oh, Peggy.
dancing, oh, so fine
and they're mine, all mine
They're mine
They're mine
Now, isn't that just fine
Not three, not five
Not seven and not nine
But ten all dancing
straight in line
And all of them
are mine, mine, mine
Yes, they are mine, all mine
That's Bart you hear.
Still hates it like poison.
Sometimes I think
that Dr. Terwilliker...
has my mother hypnotized.
Holy mackerel,
I bet you that she-
That noise you hear is my friend,
Mr. Zabladowski, the plumber.
He's afraid to say so
in front of my mother.
He thinks Dr. Terwilliker
is a real racketeer.
Double phony.
Don't give me any more trouble.
Your job is pianos, my job is sinks.
Tell me, is Dr. Terwilliker
really a racketeer?
Did you tell him
Dr. Terwilliker was a racketeer?
Oh, I did not.
Keys, darling.
Now look here, you may be
the very best plumber in town...
but when it comes to piano lessons,
I hardly think you qualify as an expert.
I'm not trying
to qualify as anything.
You certainly aren't
helping me maintain discipline.
It's not easy to bring up a boy
without a father.
I realize that.
And maybe you're right.
Maybe even if he never learns the piano,
maybe the discipline's good for him.
Maybe.
I assure you,
I know what's good for him.
He'll learn to play that piano if I have
to keep him at that keyboard forever.
Forever?
Dr. Terwilliker
says I gotta practice.
Practice makes perfect.
Practice makes perfect.
Not bad.
But not good.
That's still not loud enough,
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