![]() ![]() Mary brings her cat to her father to fix, and he does not-at least in part because he is saving the dog of a local blind man, but also because he believes Thomasina to have tetanus. Thomasina is out one night and gets injured. ![]() We eventually learn that he never wanted to be a veterinarian in the first place and only did because his father insisted. He’s a man of science in rural Scotland in 1912-and a man who doesn’t entirely understand the attachment people have to animals. Mary is quite popular in her set of the better-off children of the village, but her father is not quite so popular. Her father’s a bit of a hard man, not least because of the death of his wife, but he loves Mary dearly. She has a beloved pet cat named Thomasina (several cats, which don’t look that much alike). Mary McDhui (Karen Dotrice) is the young daughter of a widowed Scots veterinarian, Dr. Still, I didn’t choose Mary Poppins for Year of the Month because I’d always said the whole point of this column was to write about the more obscure stuff and not Mary Poppins! However, their performances in this were seen and admired enough to cast them in that instead. ![]() As a child, I assumed it was intended to cash in on the success of Mary Poppins, as it stars the children from that movie. You wouldn’t have know that if I hadn’t told you, though, because this is another one of the more obscure movies that we’ve done here. While technically this came out in 1963, that was only its New York premiere it appears to have gone into wide release in 1964. ![]()
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