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Directed by Robert Stevenson,
Joseph L. McEveety,
Tom Leetch,
Arthur J. VitarelliOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
Romance,
Comic science fictionThemes Films about education,
Comedy science fiction films,
Children's filmsActors Fred MacMurray,
Nancy Olson,
Keenan Wynn,
Ed Wynn,
Elliott Reid,
Tommy KirkRating60%
Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of Flubber has not quite brought him or his college the riches he thought. The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret and the IRS has slapped him with a huge tax bill, even if he has yet to receive a cent. He thinks he may have found the solution in the form of "Flubbergas," (the "son" of Flubber) which can change the weather. His wife Betsy becomes fed up with all the stress and starts separating from him, and the professor's old rival Shelby starts trying to woo her again. Brainard's experiments continue, by making it rain inside people's houses, as well as in Shelby's car too while he's driving, which causes him to get into an accident with a police car. It also helps Medfield College's football team to win a game, but it also has one unfortunate side effect: It shatters glass, which eventually places Brainard on the lam. At home, his wife Betsy is jealous of the attention lavished on him by an old high school girlfriend. On trial, Ned's future seems hopeless, until a farmer shows the court that his crops grew extra large because of Ned's experiment, which the farmer names "Dry Rain", and the professor is acquitted, and he and Betsy are reunited., 1h27
Directed by Robert Stevenson,
Joseph L. McEveety,
Arthur J. VitarelliOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
ComedyThemes Transport films,
Aviation films,
Children's filmsActors Tommy Kirk,
Annette Funicello,
Leon Ames,
Frank Faylen,
Arthur O'Connell,
Alan HewittRating58%
Midvale College is told that a wealthy man, Mr. Astorbilt (Arthur O'Connell), will give a large donation, but he has a strange request — he challenges the school to build a man-powered flying machine. If they succeed by a certain date, they get the donation, otherwise it will go to a rival school., 1h31
Directed by Robert Stevenson,
Joseph L. McEveetyOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
AdventureThemes Children's filmsActors Tommy Kirk,
Annette Funicello,
Leon Ames,
Stuart Erwin,
Alan Hewitt,
Connie GilchristRating62%
Midvale College student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk), who is always involved with mind experiments, designs a helmet that connects to an electroencephalographic tape that records mental activity. He is brought before Judge Holmby (Leon Ames) for wearing the helmet while driving and his license is suspended. Merlin returns to the lab and discovers accidentally that his new invention enables him to read minds., 1h31
Directed by Robert StevensonOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
FantasyThemes Films about animals,
Sports films,
Films about dogs,
Children's films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Dean Jones,
Suzanne Pleshette,
Tim Conway,
Keenan Wynn,
Dick Van Patten,
Jo Anne WorleyRating57%
Wilby Daniels (Dean Jones) is now a successful attorney who is married to Betty (Suzanne Pleshette), and they have a son named Brian (Shane Sinutko). Returning to the town of Medfield from a vacation, the family discovers that they have been robbed of almost all their possessions, and Wilby blames the local district attorney John Slade (Keenan Wynn), who is reputed to have connections with organized crime, particularly with warehouse owner Edward "Fast Eddie" Roshak (Vic Tayback). After being robbed a second time later that night (along with their Navy admiral neighbor, Gordon C. Brenner), Wilby vows to run for district attorney to make his town safe again., 1h28
Directed by Robert StevensonOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Sports films,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Auto racing films,
Road movies,
Children's filmsActors Helen Hayes,
Ken Berry,
Stefanie Powers,
Keenan Wynn,
John McIntire,
Liam DunnRating57%
Ruthless real estate magnate Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn) is pursuing his newest indoor shopping center, the 130-story Hawk Plaza. His only obstacle is an archaic firehouse inhabited by "Grandma" Steinmetz (Helen Hayes), widow of its former owner, Fire Captain Steinmetz, and aunt of mechanic Tennessee Steinmetz who appeared in The Love Bug; her displaced neighbor, flight attendant Nicole Harris (Stefanie Powers); and their sentient machines: Herbie the Love Bug, an orchestrion that chooses its own songs, and a retired cable car known as "Old No. 22". It is explained that Tennessee has gone to Tibet to visit his ailing philosophy teacher, while Herbie's former owner, Jim Douglas, has gone to Europe., 1h53
Directed by Robert Stevenson,
Christopher Hibler,
Arthur J. VitarelliOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Musical,
AnimationThemes Films about animals,
Films about magic and magicians,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Association football films,
Witches in film,
Musical films,
Political films,
Children's filmsActors Angela Lansbury,
David Tomlinson,
Cindy O'Callaghan,
Roddy McDowall,
Sam Jaffe,
John EricsonRating69%
The three Rawlins children, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul are evacuated from London during The Blitz to the remote village of Pepperinge Eye. They are placed in the reluctant care of Miss Eglantine Price, a reclusive woman who agrees to the arrangement temporarily. The children attempt to run away back to London, but change their minds after observing Miss Price attempting to fly on a broomstick. Miss Price reveals she is learning witchcraft through a correspondence school with hopes of using her spells in the British war effort, and offers the children a transportation spell in exchange for their silence. Miss Price casts the spell on a knob that the youngest child, Paul, has removed from the bed in the children’s shared bedroom, and she adds that only Paul can activate the spell., 1h30
Directed by Robert Stevenson,
Paul Cameron,
Arthur J. VitarelliOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
FantasyThemes Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Road movies,
Children's filmsActors Walter Brennan,
Matthew Garber,
Karen Dotrice,
Ed Wynn,
Richard Deacon,
Charles LaneRating63%
The story opens with the children's grandfather, D.J. Mulrooney (Walter Brennan), a well-known executive officer of a vast timber-trading company. D.J. is an eccentric and passionate man with a distinctive snore, as well as vast dedication and determination. D.J. is going to Seattle to sell 50,000 acres of timberland. D.J. takes his personal, customized 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II on the trip. In a brief conversation with his Company Head of Security, Ralph Yarby (Richard Deacon), we learn that the car was purchased after D.J. earned his first US$1 million. His first stop is The Airport where he picks up his grandchildren Elizabeth (Karen Dotrice) and Rodney (Matthew Garber) who are to accompany D.J. on his trip to Seattle. The children ask about the Rolls, to them an unusual car, and D.J. compares the Rolls with his first car back in Ireland, a one horsepower "Jaunty Car"., 1h46
Directed by Robert Stevenson,
Paul Cameron,
Arthur J. VitarelliOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
FantasyThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Pirate films,
Ghost films,
Children's filmsActors Peter Ustinov,
Dean Jones,
Suzanne Pleshette,
Elsa Lanchester,
Richard Deacon,
Elliott ReidRating67%
Steve Walker (Dean Jones) arrives in a North Carolina seacoast town to take the position of track coach at Godolphin College. The night of his arrival coincides with a charity bazaar at the hotel where he will be boarding — Blackbeard's Inn, named after the notorious English pirate Captain Edward Teach and now run by the Daughters of the Buccaneers, elderly descendants of the pirate's crew. The owners are attempting to pay off their mortgage to keep the inn from being bought by the local crime boss, Silky Seymour (Joby Baker), who wants to build a casino on the land. Steve quickly discovers his track team's shortcomings and runs afoul of the dean of Godolphin College, its football coach, and Seymour. He also makes the acquaintance of attractive Godolphin professor Jo Anne Baker (Suzanne Pleshette), who is anxious to help the elderly ladies save Blackbeard's Inn., 1h48
Directed by Robert Stevenson,
Christopher Hibler,
Arthur J. VitarelliOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
FantasyThemes Sports films,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Auto racing films,
Road movies,
Children's filmsActors Dean Jones,
Michele Lee,
David Tomlinson,
Buddy Hackett,
Johnny Flynn,
Joe FlynnRating65%
In 1968, Jim Douglas is a down-on-his luck racing driver, reduced to competing in demolition derby races against drivers half his age. Jim lives in an old fire house overlooking San Francisco Bay with his friend and mechanic, Tennessee Steinmetz, a jolly Brooklynite who constantly extols the virtues of spiritual enlightenment, having spent time amongst Buddhist monks in Tibet, and builds "art" from car parts. After yet another race ends in a crash (and Tennessee turns his Edsel into a sculpture), Jim finds himself without a car and heads into town in search of some cheap wheels. He is enticed into an upmarket European car showroom after setting eyes on an attractive sales assistant, Carole Bennett. Jim witnesses the dealership's British owner, Peter Thorndyke, being unnecessarily abusive towards a white Volkswagen Beetle that rolls into the showroom, and defends the car's honor, much to Thorndyke's displeasure. The following morning Jim is shocked to find that the car is parked outside his house and that Thorndyke is pressing charges for grand theft. A heated argument between Jim and Thorndyke is settled when Carole persuades Thorndyke to drop the charges if Jim buys the car on a system of monthly payments., 1h33
Directed by Robert StevensonOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Fantasy,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Children's filmsActors Albert Sharpe,
Janet Munro,
Sean Connery,
Estelle Winwood,
Kieron Moore,
Denis O'DeaRating70%
Darby O'Gill (Albert Sharpe) is the aging caretaker of Lord Fitzpatrick's (Walter Fitzgerald) estate in the small Irish town of Rathcullen, where he lives in the gatehouse with his lovely, almost grown, daughter Katie (Janet Munro). Darby spends most of his time in the town pub, regaling his friends with tales of his attempts to catch the leprechauns, in particular, their king, Brian Connors (Jimmy O'Dea).