The Absent-Minded Professor
The most amazing discovery since laughter!
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.
- 6.5
- 1961
- Released
- 1h 36m
Fred MacMurray
Ned Brainard
Nancy Olson
Betsy Carlisle
Keenan Wynn
Alonzo P. Hawk
Tommy Kirk
Biff Hawk
Leon Ames
Rufus Daggett
Elliott Reid
Shelby Ashton
Edward Andrews
Defense Secretary
David Lewis
General Singer
Jack Mullaney
Air Force Captain
Belle Montrose
Mrs. Chatsworth
Wally Brown
Coach Elkins
Wally Boag
TV newsman
Don Ross
Lenny
Forrest Lewis
Officer Kelley
James Westerfield
Officer Hanson
Alan Carney
Referee #1
Charlie Briggs
Sig
Gage Clarke
Reverend Bosworth
Alan Hewitt
General Hotchkiss
Raymond Bailey
Admiral Olmstead
Wendell Holmes
General Poynter
Ed Wynn
Fire Chief
Bess Flowers
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)Charles Fogel
Citizen (uncredited)
Released
en
$2,000,000.00
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Reviews
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
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