The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) review

Medfield College of Technology Prof. Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) keeps forgetting to marry his beautiful fiancée Betsy (Nancy Olson) because he's busy in his garage working on a new experiment, and it's there he 'accidentally' invents flying rubber (which he calls "Flubber") - no one in town (including Betsy) cares about his invention with the exception of "businessman" Alonzo P. Hawk (Keenan Wynn), who believes it will make him even richer.  This is a wholesome movie for kids with its all of its "physical humor" - Brainard 'rigs' a basketball game by equipping the Medfield players with 'modified' sneakers - and a customized Model T that can fly ... although it is quite a bit dated and the few ideas it has wear out their welcome well before the feature ends.  MacMurray's character is endearing (and most likely on the spectrum), but Wynn is a real treat as the 'villain,' thinking selfishly instead of for the betterment of mankind ... but I don't trust the government, either: they'll probably turn Flubber into a weapon of mass destruction (it's kind of what they do).