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Son of Flubber (1963)
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16 January 1963 (USA) moreTagline:
The Professor's "Off" and Flying... and FUN SCORES A NEW HIGH!Plot:
When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
1 win & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Flubber Byproduct moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Fred MacMurray | ... | Prof. Ned Brainard | |
| Nancy Olson | ... | Elizabeth 'Betsy' Brainard | |
| Keenan Wynn | ... | Alonzo P. Hawk | |
| Tommy Kirk | ... | Biff Hawk | |
| Ed Wynn | ... | A.J. Allen | |
| Charles Ruggles | ... | Judge Murdock (as Charlie Ruggles) | |
| Leon Ames | ... | President Rufus Daggett | |
| Ken Murray | ... | Mr. Hurley | |
| William Demarest | ... | Mr. Hummel | |
| Paul Lynde | ... | Sportscaster | |
| Elliott Reid | ... | Prof. Shelby Ashton | |
| Bob Sweeney | ... | Mr. Harker | |
| Joanna Moore | ... | Desiree de la Roche | |
| Edward Andrews | ... | Defense Secretary | |
| James Westerfield | ... | Police Officer Hanson |
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100 minCountry:
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1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)Filming Locations:
Pomona College - 333 N. College Way, Claremont, California, USAFun Stuff
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At the end of the movie, the football filled with flubber gas is seen floating among a series of man-made satellites. They are the same satellites used in Eyes in Outer Space (1959). moreQuotes:
Defense Secretary: Don't let those double-breasted suits up there fool you. Those boys are tough. moreFAQ
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By the time Son of Flubber was released by Walt Disney in 1963, Fred MacMurray was firmly established in the third phase of his career as star of G-rated Disney films and television situation comedies. MacMurray was able to do this because of a unique clause he had written into his contract with CBS which produced the My Three Sons show that he starred in for a dozen or so years. All of MacMurray's scenes in all episodes were filmed at the beginning of the cycle so as to allow him to do those Disney films as well. It worked out great for him.
Disney took virtually the entire cast of The Absent Minded Professor and added several new faces as well. In the previous film, MacMurray revolutionizes rubber by making a substance that bounces higher with each bounce than lower. That film ends with MacMurray flying to Washington in his Model T (you read it right) to give flubber for the defense of the free world.
But Washington, DC red tape being what it is MacMurray and his new bride Nancy Olson aren't seeing any money any time soon. But not to worry, Fred's found a byproduct of flubber that he calls flubber gas. A lighter than air substance that really makes anything fly.
In the first film, MacMurray used his college's basketball team as a test for flubber. In Son of Flubber, flubber gas is tested during a football game with the same hilarious results. In fact more so because in this film Paul Lynde is the stressed and harried play by play announcer of the college football game. For me he's the highlight of the film.
In Son of Flubber, Disney gives us an entertaining and worthy successor to the Absent Minded Professor that after almost fifty years will still appeal to anyone not made of stone.