THE ABSENTMINDED PROFESSOR (1961) **1/2 Message from the past, that even then capital was held in the sweaty palms of the decrepitly unimaginative, and that the creative were always held in something akin to glandular isotopic bewilderment. But it's Fred MacMurray, and no one's ever been friendlier; and Keenan Wynn (as Alonzo P. Hawke, whom he plays to even greater perfection in Herbie Rides Again) laying down the blueprint most easily and often copied. Why accomplish something when you can wait for someone else to do it, and move in on them? Robert Stevenson's pacing is, as always, perfect, and even the colorized version may amaze with its variability of plums and chartreuses. Presages the dunking contest, but even Stevenson couldn't have imagined Dr. J.
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