Son of Flubber

"The Professor's "Off" and Flying... and FUN SCORES A NEW HIGH!"

1963 1h 40m EN

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★6.1TMDB · 72

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Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.

“The Professor's "Off" and Flying... and FUN SCORES A NEW HIGH!”

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Cast

Fred MacMurray
Ned Brainard
Nancy Olson
Betsy Brainard
Keenan Wynn
Alonzo P. Hawk
Tommy Kirk
Biff Hawk
Ed Wynn
A.J. Allen
Charles Ruggles
Judge Murdock
Leon Ames
Rufus Daggett
Ken Murray
Mr. Hurley

Credits

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Director: Robert Stevenson
Writers: Bill Walsh
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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63 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

MoodPlayr · trivia#01

2 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Flubber Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Robert Stevenson, shot by Edward Colman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by George Bruns. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Cotton Warburton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Fred MacMurray and Nancy Olson and Keenan Wynn carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Marketing tagline: "The Professor's "Off" and Flying... and FUN SCORES A NEW HIGH!".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0057518 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Robert Stevenson directs. Edward Colman behind the camera. George Bruns scores. Cotton Warburton cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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163 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Part of the "Flubber Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by Robert Stevenson, shot by Edward Colman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by George Bruns. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Cotton Warburton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Fred MacMurray and Nancy Olson and Keenan Wynn carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "The Professor's "Off" and Flying... and FUN SCORES A NEW HIGH!".
8IMDB entry: tt0057518 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 72 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
10Classified under 8 themes, including "flying car", "inventor", "sequel", "black and white".

The technical file

Cinematography: Edward Colman
Original score: George Bruns
Editing: Cotton Warburton
Runtime: 100 min · 1h 40m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $22,129,412
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: Son of Flubber (1963)

Part of

Flubber Collection

The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 American film distributed by Walt Disney Productions based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor. The title character was based in part on Hubert Alyea, a professor emeritus of chemistry at Princeton University, who was known as "Dr. Boom" for his explosive demonstrations. The film was a huge success at the box-office, and two years later became the first Disney film to have a sequel, 1963's Son of Flubber.

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r96sk2020-06-30
★ 5/10
A poor follow-up to 'The Absent-Minded Professor'. 'Son of Flubber' is inferior in every department. I praise the original for its amusing humour, but this film manages to lose it almost entirely. There are a few smirk-worthy moments, but it's mostly stale. A large reason for that is the lacklustre plot, which isn't ever interesting. The Flubber itself is rarely used, as they instead focus of its "gas". The conclusion is, like with the 1961 film, rather dull and adds little. Fred MacMurray, to his credit, is again good in the role of Prof. Brainard. Nancy Olson (Betsy) and Keenan Wynn (Alonzo) are both involved again, while Tommy Kirk (Biff) is shoehorned into a bigger part; not sure why. Speaking of forced characters, James Westerfield and Forrest Lewis again appear in the roles of officers Hanson & Kelly; they were, in my opinion, only funny in 'The Shaggy Dog', which these films evidently share the same universe with. Surely this sequel needed to be bigger and grander than the earlier film? Instead it practically follows the same path without setting the world alight. Still, I'm intrigued to see where the story goes for the Disney Channel produced sequels - though I'll have to wait to view, given they oddly aren't on the studio's streaming service or anywhere else. Overall, this isn't worthy of a watch.

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