The Absent-Minded Professor [B&W]

Director: Robert Stevenson Robert Stevenson

Overview

"Released eight months after Disney shipped a colorized, full-screen version of the film, The Absent-Minded Professor comes to DVD in its original black-and-white, widescreen format. As with the previous release, there are no supplements on the disc, but Dolby Digital Surround tracks are available in both English and Spanish."

Product Details

Release Date:	09/02/2003
UPC:	0786936225259
Original Release:	1961
Rating:	G
Source:	Walt Disney Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:36:00
Sales rank:	3,499

Special Features

Closed Caption;Black-and-white presentation as originally created; Dolby Digital Surround; Spanish-language track; Widescreen (1.66:1) enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Fred MacMurray	Ned Brainard
Nancy Olson	Betsy
Keenan Wynn	Alonzo,Fire Chief
Tommy Kirk	Biff
Elliott Reid	Shelby
Leon Ames	Daggett
Belle Montrose	Chatworth
David Lewis	Singer,Officer Kelly
Edward Andrews	Defense Secretary
Wally Brown	Coach Elkins
James Westerfield	Officer Hanson
Alan Carney	Referee
Gage Clarke	Rev. Bosworth
Alan Hewitt	Gen. Hotchkiss
Jack Mullaney	Captain
Raymond Bailey	Adm. Olmstead
Wendell Holmes	Gen. Poynter
Don Ross	Lenny
Charlie Briggs	Sig
Leon Tyler	Actor
Wally Boag	TV Newsman

Technical Credits

Bill Walsh

Walt Disney	Producer
Peter Ellenshaw	Special Effects
Eustace Lycett	Special Effects
Robert A. Mattey	Special Effects
Robert Stevenson	Director
Bill Walsh	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

If you can tear the kids away from the computer-generated flash of Flubber, the inferior 1997 remake, The Absent Minded Professor provides ample amounts of Disney slapstick for an afternoon of laughs. The film reunited much of the same team that made The Shaggy Dog a success two years earlier, including Fred MacMurray, exuding his warm, bumbling charm, and writer Bill Walsh. Keenan Wynn appears as an appropriately nasty villain. The story is classic Disney: Right and wrong are clearly defined, and there are plenty of down-home American values. Also like most Disney fare of the era, the material is aimed squarely at children, and there isn't much to engage their older chaperones.