The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
The Absent-Minded Professor

Overview
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.
Flubber Collection
Reviews (2)
John Chard (Rated: 7)
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 cinema...
r96sk (Rated: 7)
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 i...
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