“George! George! Did you see that?!”

55 years ago Walt Disney’s classic “Son Of Flubber” was released to theaters. This, the first movie sequel to a previous Disney film (“The Three Caballeros” being more a follow-up to “Saludos Amigos”), is a joyous, inspired return of many wonderful people to their roles of the 1961 classic “The Absent-Minded Professor”.

Professor Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) has gone to Washington DC to get money from his anti-gravity formula Flubber with Biff Hawk (Tommy Kirk), son of crooked financier Alonzo P. Hawk (Keenan Wynn), to help the debt of Medfield College, still struggling financially. The Washington Defense Secretary (Edward Andrews) tells him his invention (from the first film) is under wraps as Washington tries to get everybody together as to what they are going to be doing with it, and its finances (should be getting a hearing in Washington any day now). Accordingly college President Daggett (Leon Ames) has to continue to pander to Alonzo Hawk.

Ned is having problems of his own, with people trying to take money from him that he has yet to collect. Mr. Hurley (Ken Murray) and his assistant (Jack Albertson) want to sell him on making different products through Flubber for home consumption, like “Flubberoleum” floors, while Mr. Harker (Bob Sweeney) is a tax collector that wants dough that the Brainards can’t pay since they have yet to receive anything. This is all having a strain on Ned and Betsy’s (Nancy Olson) marriage, since their debt is also climbing. Ned has a new invention he works on, Flubbergas, which can make it rain at will, but has inadvertently broken all the glass within the radius of the ray-gun that Ned projected it from. Biff and Humphrey Hacker (Leon Tyler) are trying to work on a Flubbergassed suit, while Humph wants a Flubberized football.

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