Absent-Minded Professor [B&W]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

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. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 (Vistavision)
• Audio: Dolby Digital Surrond
• Screen: Black and White, Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Features:
  • cc Black-and-white presentation as originally created
  • Dolby Digital Surround
  • Spanish-language track
  • Widescreen (1.66:1) enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Black and White Cinematography - 1961 (Edward Colman)
•     Nominated Best Special Effects - 1961 (Eustace Lycett, Robert Mattey)

• Directors Guild of America

•     Nominated Best Director - 1961 (Robert Stevenson)

• Hollywood Foreign Press Association

•     Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comed - 1961 (Fred MacMurray)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Fred MacMurray - Prof. Ned Brainard
       Nancy Olson - Betsy Carlisle
       Keenan Wynn - Alonzo Hawk
       Tommy Kirk - Bill Hawk
       Leon Ames - Rufus Daggett

• Director:

  Robert Stevenson

• Producer:

  Walt Disney

• Screenwriter:

  Bill Walsh

• Cinematographer:

  Edward Colman

• Composer (Music Score):

  George Bruns

• Editor:

  Cotton Warburton

• Art Director:

  Carroll Clark

REVIEW:

• 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. ~ Matthew Doberman, All Movie Guide

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