The Absent-Minded Professor

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) is a Walt Disney family comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Fred MacMurray plays Professor Ned Brainard, a perpetually distracted scientist at a small college who accidentally stumbles upon Flubber — a rubbery compound that bounces higher with every impact and defies gravity entirely.

Ned slathers the stuff on his basketball team's sneakers, turning a hopeless squad into human rockets, then bolts his old Model-T into the sky. Corrupt businessman Alonzo Hawk, played by Keenan Wynn, wants the formula for himself, and Ned's long-suffering fiancée is tired of being stood up. Director Robert Stevenson shot the film in crisp black-and-white, leaning on physical gags and deadpan humor that made 1960s Disney live-action a genre of its own. Stream The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) online on iFILM.