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7 November 1970 (USA)
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It's an Alphabeautiful Mathemagical New Musical Movie!
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Milo is a boy who is bored with life. One day he comes home to find a toll booth in his room. Having nothing better to do...
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Butch Patrick | ... | Milo |
 | Mel Blanc | ... | Officer Short Shrift / The Word Speller / The Dodecahedron / The Demon of Insincerity (voice) |
 | Daws Butler | ... | Whether Man (voice) |
 | Candy Candido | ... | Awful DYNN (voice) |
| Hans Conried | ... | King Azaz / The MathemaGician (voice) |
| June Foray | ... | Ralph / The Which / Princess of Pure Reason (voice) |
| Patti Gilbert | ... | Princess of Sweet Rhyme (voice) |
| Shepard Menken | ... | Tick Tock the Watch Dog (voice) (as Shep Menken) |
| Cliff Norton | ... | Spelling Bee / Senses Taker (voice) |
| Larry Thor | ... | Kakofonous A. Dischord (voice) |
| Les Tremayne | ... | Humbug (voice) |
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The Adventures of Milo in the Phantom Tollbooth
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90 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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When Milo is in class and many people are heard speaking at once, one of them is the voice of Bugs Bunny.
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Continuity: When Faintly McCabre offers Milo and Tock some cookies, Tock eats all of them, yet in the next shot they are back.
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Humbug:
Could you show us the biggest number there is? That will give him something to figure out.
The MathemaGician: Very well, Sir Humbug. What's the biggest number you can think of?
Humbug: 9,999,999,000,999 and... nine tenths!
The MathemaGician: Very good. Now add one to it.
Humbug: Add one?
The MathemaGician: Now, add one to that. Add one again. Add one again. Add one again. Add one again.
Milo: But he'd never be able to stop that way.
The MathemaGician: Never, for the number you hope for is always at least one higher than the one you had, and that's so large that if you started saying it yesterday, you wouldn't finish until tomorrow.
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The MathemaGician: Very well, Sir Humbug. What's the biggest number you can think of?
Humbug: 9,999,999,000,999 and... nine tenths!
The MathemaGician: Very good. Now add one to it.
Humbug: Add one?
The MathemaGician: Now, add one to that. Add one again. Add one again. Add one again. Add one again.
Milo: But he'd never be able to stop that way.
The MathemaGician: Never, for the number you hope for is always at least one higher than the one you had, and that's so large that if you started saying it yesterday, you wouldn't finish until tomorrow.
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Being from Another Planet (#5.5)" (1992)
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Numbers Are the Only Thing That Count
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A youngster from San Francisco, bored with school and with time to kill, is offered an educational round-trip from a Phantom Tollbooth; he turns animated and takes a journey to the Castle in the Sky, where Rhyme and Reason have been banished by Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, the feuding worlds of words and numbers who each believe they are most important. Uneven animated feature (with live-action prologue and epilogue featuring Butch Patrick) is an erratic, but interesting adaptation of Norton Juster's book punctuated with musical interludes (and some odd "Wizard of Oz"-isms). Veteran animator Chuck Jones co-wrote the script and co-directed the animated sequences (the first, and last, cartoon effort from M-G-M). Jones makes a big mistake getting our young hero stuck in the Doldrums in the first act (there's no fascination in lethargy), but he picks up the pace soon after that. Digitopolis has a nifty look (and lively Hans Conried as the MathemaGician), and there's a lovely "conducted" sunset and an exciting race to the castle. The animation is alternately crude, clumsy, expressive, colorful, and routine, and the songs are an equally mixed lot (they're pleasant, if not especially catchy). Patrick has a marvelous deep voice for a little kid, but he isn't given anything clever to say; better are Conried, June Foray, and Mel Blanc in the voice-over department. Not too popular with child audiences at the time, this may have been a bit high-brow for the matinée crowds. If anything, the film has improved with time, and some of it is quite imaginative. **1/2 from ****