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.

Fred MacMurray
as Ned Brainard

Nancy Olson
as Betsy Carlisle

Keenan Wynn
as Alonzo P. Hawk

Tommy Kirk
as Biff Hawk

Leon Ames
as Rufus Daggett

Elliott Reid
as Shelby Ashton

Edward Andrews
as Defense Secretary

David Lewis
as General Singer

Jack Mullaney
as Air Force Captain

Belle Montrose
as Mrs. Chatsworth
John Chard
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
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...