Son of Flubber

Son of Flubber is the 1963 black-and-white sequel to the Walt Disney children's movie comedy The Absent-Minded Professor, also starring Fred MacMurray as a scientist who has perfected a high-bouncing substance, Flubber ("flying rubber") that can levitate an automobile and cause athletes to bounce into the sky. The film costars Nancy Olson and Keenan Wynn, and was directed by Robert Stevenson. Many of the cast members from The Absent-Minded Professor also appear in this film, including Elliott Reid and Tommy Kirk. A colorized version of the film was released on VHS in 1997.
==Plot==
Professor Ned Brainard of Medfield College goes to Washington, D. C., to sell to the Defense Department his anti-gravitation invention, flying rubber, or "Flubber." He hopes the government will purchase his invention so that he may help Medfield pay off its mortgage owed to loan shark Alonzo Hawk, who is eager to foreclose and use the school property for a business enterprise. Congress refuses to approve the expenditure, and Ned returns to Medfield emptyhanded and unable, for national security reasons, to sell Flubber privately. Undaunted, the professor continues to experiment with other inventions, including a weather gun (a machine to promote rainfall) and a flubbergas suit for football players. Domestic strife further complicates Ned's life when his wife, Betsy, becomes jealous of the attentions paid to him by his ex-sweetheart, Desiree de la Roche, and she leaves him. Moreover, Ned's experiments with the weather gun cause all the glass in town to shatter. Alonzo, whose insurance company must pay the claims for the broken glass, traces the damage to Ned and threatens legal action. By this time, though, Ned is busy perfecting a flubbergassed football suit invented by his student Bill Hawk, Alonzo's son. The invention works, helping Medfield win the game, but the victory is clouded by Ned's trial. County agricultural agent A. J. Allen testifies that a beneficial effect of Ned's weather gun, which he calls "dry rain," has resulted in bumper crops. To prove his claim, Allen exhibits mammoth vegetables and an enormous chicken egg. The judge dismisses the case, and Ned, now a hero, is reunited with Betsy.
==Production notes==
Medfield College, which was also the setting for the earlier film The Absent-Minded Professor, was later used for a trilogy of Disney's "Dexter Riley" films; The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World; each starring Kurt Russell and Cesar Romero.
==Cast==
*Fred MacMurray as Professor Ned Brainard
*Nancy Olson as Betsy Carlisle Brainard
*Keenan Wynn as Alonzo Hawk
*Ed Wynn as A.J. Allen
*Bob Sweeney as Mr. Harker
*Tommy Kirk as Biff Hawk
*Charlie Ruggles as Judge Murdock
*Leon Ames as President Rufus Daggett
*Ken Murray as Mr. Hurley
*William Demarest as Mr. Hummel
*Elliott Reid as Prof. Shelby Ashton
*Joanna Moore as Desiree de la Roche
*Edward Andrews as Defense Secretary
*James Westerfield as Police Officer Hanson
*Alan Carney as Referee
*Stuart Erwin as Coach Wilson
*Forrest Lewis as Police Officer Kelly
*Alan Hewitt as Prosecutor
*Jack Albertson as Mr. Barley
*Eddie Ryder as Mr. Osborne
*Harriet MacGibbon as Mrs. Edna Daggett
*Beverly Wills as Mother in Commercial
*Wally Boag as George, Father in Commercial
*Wed Miller as Baby Walter in Commercial
*Charlie the Dog as Himself
===Uncredited===
*Joe Flynn as TV announcer, Rex Williams
*Leon Tyler as Humphrey Hacker
*Paul Lynde as George
==Notes==
*The film's copyright was renewed on October 10, 1990.Online Copyright Catalog search (form autofilled, pressing "begin search" brings up the entry)
*The Buena Vista fanfare would later be used as its trademark fanfare for the reissues of the classic Disney cartoons.
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Son of flubber australia poster.jpg|Poster from the release in Australia in 1963
Son of flubber france poster.jpg|Poster from the release in France on October 31, 1964
Son of flubber germany poster.jpg|Poster from the release in Germany on August 7, 1964
Son of flubber japan poster.jpg|Poster from the release in Japan on August 8, 1964
Son of flubber uk poster.jpg|Poster from the release in the United Kingdom on February 22, 1963 in London, before going nationwide on May 27
Walt Disney Productions France 1963-4 program 2.jpg|Promo for the release in France
==References==
Category:Disney films
Category:Live-action films
Category:1963 films
Category:Sequel films
Category:G-rated films
Category:The Absent-Minded Professor