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
: 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 screen, its production was famously chaotic: