The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
The most amazing discovery since laughter!
97 min
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.
- Release date
- March 16, 1961
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $2,000,000
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Cast
- Fred MacMurray as Professor Ned Brainard
- Nancy Olson as Betsy Carlisle
- Keenan Wynn as Alonzo P. Hawk
- Tommy Kirk as Biff Hawk
- Leon Ames as President Rufus Daggett
- Elliott Reid as Professor Shelby Ashton
- Edward Andrews as Defense Secretary
- David Lewis as General Singer
- Jack Mullaney as Air Force Captain
- Belle Montrose as Mrs. Chatsworth
- Wally Brown as Coach Elkins
- Forrest Lewis as Officer Kelley
- James Westerfield as Officer Hanson
- Alan Carney as Referee #1
- Charlie Briggs as Sig
- Gage Clarke as Reverend Bosworth
- Alan Hewitt as General Hotchkiss
- Raymond Bailey as Admiral Olmstead
- Wendell Holmes as General Poynter
- Ed Wynn as Fire Chief
- Bess Flowers as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Paul Frees as PA Man / Air Force Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)
- Hank Patterson as Fisherman Spectator (uncredited)
- Colin Kenny as Man in Crowd (uncredited)
- Ralph Clanton as O.J. Turnball (uncredited)
- Charles Fogel as Citizen (uncredited)
- Ned Wynn as Boy (uncredited)
Crew
- Robert Stevenson · Director
- Bill Walsh · Writer
- Samuel W. Taylor · Writer
- George Bruns · Composer
- Edward Colman · Cinematographer
- Cotton Warburton · Editor