William Demarest

When the idealistic young Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) winds up appointed to the United States Senate, he gains the mentorship of Senator Joseph Paine (Claude Rains). However, Paine isn't as noble as his reputation would indicate, and he becomes involved in a scheme to discredit Smith, who wants to build a boys' campsite where a more lucrative project could go. Determined to stand up against Paine and his corrupt peers, Smith takes his case to the Senate floor.

Medfield's lovable but hopelessly absent-minded professor, Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray), bounces back in this classic Disney film with hilarious new mishaps when he experiments with the amazing by-products of his startling anti-gravity substance, "flubber." Windows shatter, football players fly and thunderstorm materialize indoors as Professor Brainard fights to keep Medfield College from falling into the hands of ruthless land developer Alonzo hawk (Keenan Wynn).