Feature films selected for the occasion - at home with the family - this week starring Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Tommy Rettig, Hans Conried
A small boy dreams his piano teacher is holding 500 boys captive in an enchanted castle and forcing them to practise every day.
Produced by Stanley Kramer and based on a children's story by Dr Seuss, this must be one of the most unusual musicals ever made in Hollywood.
After making a name for himself as a young producer of difficult subjects - the first ones in collaboration with Carl Foreman on classics like The Men, Home of the Brave and High Noon - Kramer made a whole series of off-beat films including The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T.