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To avoid the endless commercials on a crime show I was watching last night, I would switch over to the commercial-free TCM. Unfortunately they were showing one of the worst musical films ever made; Dr. Dolittle. Not the Eddie Murphy one, which also sucked, but the 1967 Rex Harrison film which is very nearly unwatchable, unless, like me, you're fascinated by how awful it is. Films like this absolutely amaze me. I cannot understand how leading scriptwriters, composers, actors like Rex Harrison and Samantha Eggar, other luminaries of the British theater, leading animal trainers, and special effects experts can all pool their talents and come out with one of the most leaden, boring, tiresome musicals ever. To cite just one idiotic scene, Dr. Doolittle has at his disposal glasses designed for a horse, supposedly, except they are glasses of standard design and horses eyes are on the sides. Nonetheless it instantly cures this horses vision problems. If you think that might have been an amusing scene, you'd be wrong. Rex Harrison should have realized that one Doolittle in his life was enough and turned this turkey down.