Son of Flubber ** (1963, Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 10,582

‘HE PUTS A HALFBACK INTO ORBIT! HE’S THE LAFF OF THE PARTY! HE BLOWS UP A STORM!’

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1963 comedy Son of Flubber brings Fred MacMurray is happily back as Professor Ned Brainard of Medfield College, inventing anti-gravity stuff and a dry-rain-creating apparatus, in Walt Disney’s daft, amusing, pretty successful sequel to the 1961 The Absent Minded Professor.

It is young Tommy Kirk as Biff Hawk who borrows MacMurray’s equipment and invents flubber gas to help on the football field.

Also in the cast are Nancy Olson as Betsy Brainard, Keenan Wynn as Alonzo P Hawk, Tommy Kirk, Joanna Moore, Elliott Reid, Leon Ames, Ed Wynn, Ken Murray, Charlie Ruggles, William Demarest, Bob Sweeney, Paul Lynde, Stuart Erwin, Edward Andrews, Byron Foulger and Harvey Korman. It is Paul Lynde’s film debut.

The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on a story by Samuel W Taylor.

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