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, he gets in his toy car and drives through – only to emerge in a world full of adventure.

The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
  • Rating: (1,260 votes)
  • Tagline:It's an Alphabeautiful Mathemagical New Musical Movie! »
  • Runtime:90 minutes
  • Directors: Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Dave Monahan
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Milo
    Butch Patrick
    Officer Short Shrift / The Word Speller / The Dodecahedron / The Demon of Insincerity (voice)
    Mel Blanc
    Whether Man (voice)
    Daws Butler
    Awful DYNN (voice)
    Candy Candido
    King Azaz / The MathemaGician (voice)
    Hans Conried
    Ralph / Faintly Macabre the Which / Princess of Pure Reason (voice)
    June Foray
    Princess of Sweet Rhyme (voice)
    Patti Gilbert
    Tock (voice) (as Shep Menken)
    Shepard Menken
    Spelling Bee / Senses Taker (voice)
    Cliff Norton
    Kakofonous A. Dischord (voice)
    Larry Thor
  • Genres:Family, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
  • Producers:
    Les Goldman
    co-producer  
    Abe Levitow
    co-producer  
    Chuck Jones
    producer (uncredited)  
  • Plot: 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, he gets in his toy car and drives through - only to emerge in a world full of adventure. Written by Eric Sorensen <Eric_Sorensen@fc.mcps.k12.md.us>
The Phantom Tollbooth
  • User's comment:Trippy by (seras@gwi.net)

    This movie is amazing. I'm 24 and I have just seen it for the first time. I've watched it now with a 29 year old and a 34 year old and they both adored it.

    Not only does it give a message that every person needs to here at many different stages in their life *not just childhood*, but it's fun and entertaining.

    The songs are well worded and fun, the script is amazing. The art is trippy. The characters have incredible voices that take you back to Saturday morning cartoons.

    It's a movie that parents can enjoy with their kids, teenagers can enjoy with friends, and all people should agree it's like a tiny mind trip without the drugs.

    Anyone that can't find joy somewhere in this movie is stuck in the Doldrums!


  • Quotes: Tock: [singing] Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. Humbug: A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. Tock: Oh, I don't just watch Lethargians. I watch boys, too.
  • Also known as: Il casello fantasma (Italy - imdb display title), Milo kalandjai (Hungary - imdb display title), The Adventures of Milo in the Phantom Tollbooth ( - undefined),

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