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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Directed by Robert Butler
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Overview
Some college students manage to persuade the town’s big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer’s memory, like Arno’s illegal businesses..
Rated G | Length 91 minutes
Actors
Kurt Russell | Cesar Romero | Joe Flynn | William Schallert | Alan Hewitt | Richard Bakalyan | Debbie Paine | Frank Welker | Frank Webb | Michael McGreevey | Jon Provost | Bing Russell | Pat Harrington, Jr. | Fritz Feld | Kenner G. Kemp | Leon Alton | Ed Begley Jr. | Gail Bonney | David Canary | John Cliff | Howard Culver | George DeNormand | William Fawcett | Robert Foulk | Duane Grey | Myron Healey | George Hoagland | Jonathan Hole | Michael Jeffers | Byron Morrow | George N. Neise | Joe Phillips | Judson Pratt | Leoda Richards | Cosmo Sardo | Jeffrey Sayre | Maida Severn | Olan Soule | Gregory Morton | Hal Taggart | Peter Renaday | Heather Menzies | Arthur Tovey | Mark Russell
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/04/2020 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 6.5 stars |
| (Average) 6.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
I mentioned this the other day in my notes so I figured I’d watch it since I haven’t seen it since I was a kid and we viewed in the gymnasium on 16mm in grade school.
Didn’t remember much of it other than babyfaced Kurt Russell getting the jolt that turns him into the human computer. Overall this is a silly movie that is still quite entertaining being the time capsule that it is. Found it amusing that Dexter (Russell) gets all this national acclaim once he gets so smart and wonder if that would happen today (it would not). Fun to see this again decades later. Now I wanna watch the other early Russell/Disney flicks.
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