The Absent-Minded Professor
1961 · 96 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 9,597 VOTES · DIR. Robert Stevenson
Overview
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,468 lines
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00:00:06 Energy takes on many forms.
00:05:17 No.
00:09:30 Shelby, I don't seem to have an escort.
00:14:52 Now we ease off on the gamma rays.
00:19:02 ...of the greatest importance.
00:21:45 Get me the file on wealthy alumni marked "emergency."
00:24:24 Give them some more time on the loan or something.
00:28:43 Gonna have to watch where I'm going, huh?
00:33:35 Why doesn't he go down and sit in the Rutland section?
00:37:44 Say, what's going on out there?
00:46:53 I don't know. Some kind of a thing!
00:49:48 Talked to them?
00:52:45 so you can blackmail our government?
00:55:37 It's not only agriculture.
00:58:16 All right. Do as you please.
01:05:22 Get right in, gentlemen.
01:08:53 Now hold it out.
01:11:28 Oh, Betsy. Hold him down!
01:13:47 Professor Brainard! Come back!
01:17:40 Come down sitting. Not feet first!
01:21:46 Oh. Thank you, dear.
01:25:53 Scramble Bird Dog flight.
01:30:22 Look! There's Grant's Tomb.
01:33:23 shoot them down, too.
Cast & Characters
Fred MacMurray
Professor Ned Brainard
Nancy Olson
Betsy Carlisle
Keenan Wynn
Alonzo P. Hawk
Tommy Kirk
Biff Hawk
Leon Ames
President Rufus Daggett
Elliott Reid
Professor Shelby Ashton
Edward Andrews
Defense Secretary
David Lewis
General Singer
Jack Mullaney
Air Force Captain
Belle Montrose
Mrs. Chatsworth
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,468
Dialogue density15.3 lines / min
First line00:00:06
Final line01:33:23
Production Record
DirectorRobert Stevenson
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,000,000
IMDb votes9,597