In the sleepy English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in 1845, Dr. John Dolittle (portrayed by Rex Harrison) is a man whose medical practice has gone to the dogs—literally. His human patients have fled, terrified by the rabbits in the pantry and the hedgehog on the sofa.
Encouraged by his talking macaw, Polynesia, who teaches him the secret of animal linguistics, Dolittle abandons human medicine to become a world-renowned veterinarian. Here is the story of his grand 1967 musical adventure: The Great Expedition Doctor Dolittle(1967)
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 In the sleepy English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in