The Absent-Minded Professor

1961 PG-13 1h 36m

6.5 / 10 198

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6.5/10

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Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.

Director Robert Stevenson

Writers

Bill Walsh Samuel W. Taylor

Stars

Fred MacMurray Nancy Olson Keenan Wynn

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Paul Frees

PA Man / Air Force Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)

Hank Patterson

Fisherman Spectator (uncredited)

Colin Kenny

Man in Crowd (uncredited)

Arthur Tovey

Basketball Game Spectator (uncredited)

Ralph Clanton

O.J. Turnball (uncredited)

Comedy Family Science Fiction

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r96sk 30 Jun 2020

7/10

An amusing film regarding Professor Brainard, a character I've always associated with Robin Williams having seen the 1997 remake first back when I was younger. Fred MacMurray plays the aforementioned in this, the original. He is pleasing here, giving a more than satisfying performance - even if it is pretty similar to the one he gives in <em>'The Shaggy Dog'</em> back in 1959. Elsewhere, Keenan...

John Chard 12 Apr 2020

7/10

Substance X, we dub thee - Flubber! The Absent-Minded Professor is directed by Robert Stevenson and adapted to screenplay by Bill Walsh from a story by Samuel W. Taylor. It stars Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olsen, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames and Elliott Reid. Music is by George Bruns and cinematography by Edward Colman. Out of Disney, we get the kind of wacky family friendly comedy that se...