The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

“The Wonder Musical of the Future!”

Bart Collins (Tommy Rettig) is a boy who hates his piano lessons and the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried) who gives them. He is sure Terwilliker has his widowed mother Heloise (Mary Healy) under his sinister influence, and he complains to the visiting plumber, August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes), with little result. Roy Rowland's film follows Bart into a dream where a piano teacher keeps children at the keys forever, and where Bart might never leave.