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Flubber rules!
A well-paced comic fantasy starring frequent Disney stalwart Fred MacMurray, this is the original from which Robin Williams, 36 years later, made "Flubber." MacMurray plays Ned Brainerd, a chemistry professor at little Medfield College, who has his head so far up in the clouds that he's managed to twice miss his wedding to Betsy Carlisle (Nancy Olson), secretary to college president Rufus Daggett (Leon Ames). On the very night when the third attempt is scheduled, an explosion in Ned's improvised garage lab results in the discovery of a gooey dark substance he names "flubber"--a "metastable compound" that "creates its own energy" when bounced off a hard surface or bombarded with gamma rays. Thrilled by his breakthrough, Ned scarcely realizes he's missed the ceremony again, but once he does, he sets out to get back into Betsy's good graces, defeat his rival for her hand (Prof. Shelby Ashton of long-time rival school Rutland, played by Elliott Reed, who took a similar role as Ralph Hastings in MacMurray's "Follow Me, Boys" five years later), and ultimately save the college from small-time tycoon Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn), a blustering local loan king and descendant of the town's founders who has loaned half a million dollars to the college and is pressing for repayment. Along the way he arranges the spectacular basketball victory of Medfield over Rutland, terrorizes Ashton by bouncing his modified (flying) Model T Ford off the roof of his rival's car (the "Shelby Stomp," as he christens it), and has to rescue his Lizzie from Hawk's warehouse after it's switched for a nonmodified version. <
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>The special effects in this movie, while inevitably nowhere near the caliber of what became possible even 15 years later, are among its high points, and certainly very well done for the time. MacMurray is up to his usual standard as the quiet hero with principles who stands up for what he believes and is ready to fight for his rights. There's also an abundance of laugh-worthy moments, from the quick shots of Ned's bemused little dog Charlie reacting to the first usages of flubber, through the wonderfully comic maneuvers of the basketball game and Ned's handling of Hawk's two goons in the warehouse, to the skillfully intercut scenes in and high above Washington, D.C., when Ned and Betsy fly the car there to offer it to the government and find themselves the target of the capital's defenses. (I can't help wondering why, if the picture drawn in the movie is accurate, Al Qaeda was able to fly a jet into the Pentagon 40 years later without having it shot down before it got within five miles of the place.) In the end, of course, the right triumphs, and Ned and Betsy even manage to have their long-delayed wedding. Comic without being overwhelmingly slapsticky (a bow to nostalgia is provided by the appearance of Wynn's father Ed in a video adaptation of his famous Fire Chief role), the film can also serve as a good jumping-off point for family discussions, like what we owe to our country and how to handle unscrupulous people like Hawk.

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Classical Disney
I grew up with these classics from Disney. Great family entertainment at it's best! Disney reveals how the most amazing things can be discovered by "The Absent-minded Professor" in all of us. Fred MacMurray is the perfect choice for the character - his kind, gentle, simplistic genius and a little bit of vindictiveness really makes his character fly! Teenagers and young adults may find the special effects outdated, but if they can get beyond that, they will still find the story entertaining and fun to watch.

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a great funny Disney film
"The Absent Minded Professor," is a truly classic Disney film. I'd highly recommend it too anyone that loves disney films or comedy. It's for kids and adults alike. Personally I think it looks great in color and very good in black and white too. The color version is interesting too see what colors things were. Fred McMurry is really funny and a great comedian in it. It's a really interesting film and full of laughs. With him inventing flubber it has a really neat scientific as well as science fiction theme.