Fred MacMurray
Prof. Ned Brainard
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The Absent Minded Professor: Directed by Robert Stevenson. With Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk. A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.
The Absent-Minded Professor has been remade as a 1997 theatrical film titled Flubber, with Robin Williams as the renamed Prof. Philip Brainard, with Marcia Gay Harden as his love interest, Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds (Nancy Olson appears in a cameo).
Flubber is a 1997 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Les Mayfield (who had previously directed the John Hughes scripted remake, Miracle on 34th Street) and written by Hughes and Bill Walsh.
The Flubber (also known as The Absent-Minded Professor) franchise consists of American science-fiction-comedy films, with three theatrical releases, and two made-for-television films.
Professor Philip Brainard (Robin Williams) is experimenting with new kinds of energy, and he thinks this project will save struggling Medfield College, where his girlfriend, Sara (Marcia Gay ...
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When the greedy town tycoon Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn) threatens to close down Medfield College, Prof. Brainard sets out to use Flubber to save the school. He discovers that a bit of the stuff applied to the sneakers of the school's basketball team does wonders for their scoring percentage!
The original 1961 film was one of the first Disney films to be colorized (for the 1986 and 1997 video releases), and along with 1959's The Shaggy Dog and Son of Flubber, it is one of Disney's few black-and-white films made after 1941.
Release Date: March 16, 1961. Genre: Classics, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction. Visit Medfield College and delight in the fun when Professor Brainard uses Flubber to put more bounce in the basketball team, fly a Model "T" Jalopy over Washington, D.C., and save Medfield College from financial ruin!
Nov 26, 1997 · Flubber. Brilliant but befuddled Professor Phillip Brainard is on the brink of inventing a revolutionary energy source and missing his wedding to fiancee Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds. When Phillip experiments with a miraculous elastic goo, Flubber emerges, leaving him ecstatic, but unmarried!
Dec 22, 2022 · When the Studios decided to use the black-and-white comedy film model again in 1961 with The Absent-Minded Professor, MacMurray returned for a far more lively and well-rounded role as Ned Brainard, a professor of physical chemistry at the fictional Medfield College of Technology.
