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No two movies below have the slightest thing in common.

~ A story about a man who is worth six million dollars — but only if you sold him off piece-buy-piece.

~ A movie that tells the tale of a woman who’s a snake . . . or a snake who’s a woman. We can debate which it is on the thread. I’ll start that discussion, and one of you guys can offer a counter opinion. The gauntlet has been hurled, gentlemen. Accept the challenge or admit I’m smarter than you! Cool

~ Son of Flubber has a misleading title. The bouncing rubber does NOT have an off-spring. In fact, Fred MacMurry doesn’t have a son either! Obviously the movie was extensively rewritten after the title was chosen, so we may never know the truth! Shocked

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Six Million Dollar Man (1973 TV movie)



Pilot episode for the popular series about a test pilot (Lee Majors) who receives bionic replacement parts for his injured body after a plane crash. Majors has two super-fast legs, one super-strong arm, and one telescopic eyeball.

After generously providing six million dollars worth of hi-tech prosthetics, Uncle Sam wants Majors to show his gratitude by become a kind of detective/secret agent. His boss is Richard Anderson ("Forbidden Planet"), head of the Office of Scientific Information which may have been producer/director Richard Irving's way of paying tribute to Ivan Tors and Curt Siodmak, who planned to do a TV show back in the 1950s about trouble-shooting scientists from the Office of Scientific Investigation.

High production values, plenty of action, and a good cast made "The Six Million Dollar Man" fun to watch. The only consistent flaw was the use of slow motion photography whenever Majors was supposed to be moving super-fast (?).

It was intended to indicate that something extraordinary was happening, but the gimmick only made the action scenes look as sleepy as an underwater fistfight. The series spawned a successful spin-off starring Lindsay Wagner as "The Bionic Woman".

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The Snake Woman (1961)

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John McCarthy is a Scotland yard inspector who investigates a series of weird murders committed on the Scottish moors during the 19th Century. The killer turns out to be lovely Susan Travers . . . but she's not so lovely when she transforms into a cobra, a fate bequeathed to her by her father, who injected her mother with snake venom — which is a little like saying she turned into a kitchen sink because she was injected with Drain-O.

Not especially well made, and obscure for that reason. Directed by Sidney J. Furie.

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Son of Flubber (1962)

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Enjoyable sequel to Disney's "The Absent Minded Professor", with the same cast and a nice variation of the first film's best gimick -- a sports event that turns into a flying circus.

This time it's a football game, and the dynamic effects of flubber makes it possible for football players to toss other football players through the air. But "Son of Flubber" introduces some new elements, too: a rain-making ray that also shatters glass and makes vegetables grow to enormous size.

Fred MacMurray repeats his role as the professor, Nancy Olson is his wife, Keenan Wynn ("The Great Race") is the nasty capitalistic villain.

Also starring Tommy Kirk ("Village of the Giants") and Ed Wynn. Great family viewing. Directed by Robert Stevenson, one of Disney's most prolific film makers.

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