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词条 The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Reception

  4. Legacy

     Sequels  Television films  Title sequence 

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

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| name = The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
| image = computer wore tennis shoes ver1.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Robert Butler
| producer = Bill Anderson
| writer = Joseph L. McEveety
| starring = {{Plain list |
  • Kurt Russell
  • Cesar Romero
  • Joe Flynn
  • William Schallert
  • Alan Hewitt

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| music = Robert F. Brunner
| cinematography = Frank V. Phillips
| editing = Cotton Warburton
| studio = Walt Disney Productions
| distributor = Buena Vista Distribution
| released = {{Film date|1969|12|31}} (New Year's Eve)
| runtime = 91 minutes
| country = United States
| awards =
| language = English
| budget =
| gross = $5.5 million (US/ Canada rentals)[1]
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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is a 1969 American comedy film starring Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn and William Schallert. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution Company as part of "The Last Laughs of the 1960s".{{huh|date=December 2017|reason=I can't turn up any obvious explanation for this phrase; I assume at least some other readers will be similarly confused.}}

It was one of several films made by Disney using the setting of Medfield College, first used in the 1961 Disney film The Absent-Minded Professor and its sequel Son of Flubber. Now You See Him, Now You Don't and The Strongest Man in the World, both sequels to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, were also set at Medfield.

Plot

Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) and his friends attend small, private Medfield College, which cannot afford to buy a computer. The students persuade wealthy businessman A.J. Arno (Cesar Romero) to donate an old computer to the college. Arno is the secret head of a large illegal gambling ring, which used the computer for its operations.

While installing a replacement part during a thunderstorm, Riley receives an electric shock and becomes a human computer. He now has superhuman mathematical talent, can read and remember the contents of an encyclopedia volume in a few minutes and can speak a language fluently after reading one textbook. His new abilities make Riley a worldwide celebrity and Medfield's best chance to win a televised quiz tournament with a $100,000 prize.

Riley single-handedly leads Medfield's team in victories against other colleges. During the tournament, a trigger word causes Riley to unknowingly recite on television details of Arno's gambling ring. Arno's henchmen kidnap Riley and plan to kill him, but his friends help him escape. Arno's home is being painted and in the rescue effort, Riley's friends put paint in the gas tanks of the henchmen's cars, causing them not to start, and following a brief chase in his own car, Arno ends up in a pile of hay.

During the escape, Riley suffers a concussion which, during the tournament final against rival Springfield State, gradually returns his mental abilities to normal; one of his friends, however, is able to answer the final question ("What is the geographic center of the contiguous United States?"). Medfield wins the $100,000 prize. Arno and his henchmen are arrested when they attempt to escape the TV studio and crash head-on into a police car.

Cast

  • Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley
  • Cesar Romero as A.J. Arno
  • Joe Flynn as Dean Higgins
  • William Schallert as Professor Quigley
  • Alan Hewitt as Dean Collingsgood
  • Richard Bakalyan as Chillie Walsh
  • Debbie Paine as Annie Hannah
  • Frank Webb as Pete
  • Michael McGreevey as Schuyler
  • Jon Provost as Bradley
  • Frank Welker as Henry
  • W. Alex Clarke as Myles
  • Bing Russell as Angelo
  • Pat Harrington as Moderator
  • Fabian Dean as Little Mac
  • Fritz Feld as Sigmund van Dyke
  • Pete Ronoudet as Lt. Charles "Charlie" Hannah
  • Hillyard Anderson as J. Reedy
  • David Canary as Walski
  • Robert Foul as Police desk sergeant
  • Ed Begley Jr. as a Springfield State panelist
* Not credited on-screen.

Reception

The film received a mixed reception.[2][3]

Legacy

Sequels

  • Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
  • The Strongest Man in the World (1975)

Television films

This film was remade as the television film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes in 1995 starring Kirk Cameron as Dexter Riley.

Other Disney Channel films carrying similar plot elements were the Not Quite Human film series, which aired in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The films were based on the series of novels with the same name.

Title sequence

The animated title sequence, by future Academy Award-winning British visual effects artist Alan Maley, reproduced the look of contemporary computer graphics using stop motion photography of paper cutouts. It has been cited as an early example of "computational kitsch."[4][5]

See also

  • List of American films of 1969

References

1. ^"Big Rental Films of 1970", Variety, 6 January 1971 p 11
2. ^{{cite web|last=Greenspun |first=Roger |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F0CE4DF143BEE34BC4C53DFB767838B669EDE |title=Movie Review - The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes - Screen: Jacobs's 'a.k.a. Cassius Clay' Begins Run:Kiley Is Narrator of Evslin Script 'Computer Wore Tennis Shoes' Also Opens. - NYTimes.com |publisher=Movies.nytimes.com |date=1970-11-04 |accessdate=2013-09-08}}
3. ^{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/1969/film/reviews/the-computer-wore-tennis-shoes-1200422115/ |title=Variety Reviews - The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes - Film Reviews - - Review by Variety Staff |publisher=Variety.com |date=1969-12-31 |accessdate=2012-12-07}}
4. ^{{Cite web | title = Computational kitsch in opening titles of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes | author = | work = criticalcommons.org | date = | accessdate = 2018-03-03 | url = http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/computational-kitsch-in-opening-titles-of-the-computer-wore-tennis-shoes/view | quote = }}
5. ^{{Cite web | title = Computer Wore Tennis Shoes title sequence | author = | work = youtube.com | date = | accessdate = 2018-03-03 | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAMnLlF0GWk | language = | quote = }}

External links

  • {{Official website|http://movies.disney.com/the-computer-wore-tennis-shoes}}
  • {{IMDb title|0065566}}
  • {{tcmdb title|71358}}
  • {{Amg movie|10679}}
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11 : 1969 films|1960s comedy films|1960s science fiction films|American comedy science fiction films|American films|Walt Disney Studios franchises|Walt Disney Pictures films|Films about computing|Films directed by Robert Butler|Medfield College films|Films set in universities and colleges

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