THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR(1961)
A great movie from Disney starring Fred MacMurray!
Spawning a sequel, "Son Of Flubber" which was also pretty
good!! B+
A review from Amazon
The original, 1961 version of The Absent-Minded Professor
is bound to be a hundred times funnier than the bland remake,
Flubber. Fred MacMurray is charming as the eccentric college
professor who discovers a gooey substance with sustainable
energy. Everything about this movie clicks in a way Flubber
didn't, particularly the effort by director Robert Stevenson (a
Disney favorite who made Mary Poppins, That Darn Cat, Bedknobs
and Broomsticks, and many other hits for the studio) to create
comic tension between MacMurray's gentlemanly performance
and the slapstick set pieces. The famous basketball scene (in
which some of the players don't realize they have flubber on
the soles of their shoes) is perfectly choreographed and
exceptionally funny for kids. --Tom Keogh