The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes Movie Review

Families will want to boot up this post-Walt live-action Disney comedy starring Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley, an underachieving college student who suddenly becomes a genius after the campus computer's memory bank is accidentally downloaded into his brain. Innocuous and dated, but the expert cast keeps this online. Cesar Romero is the local crime boss and the computer's original owner whose clandestine records wind up in Dexter's head. Joe Flynn (Captain Binghamton on McHale's Navy) is the fussbudget college dean and Dexter's nemesis. Pat Harrington (Schneider on One Day at a Time) hosts the TV quiz show on which Dexter appears. Followed by Now You See Him, Now You Don't and The Strongest Man in the World.

1969 (G) 87m/C Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert, Alan Hewitt, Richard Bakalayan, Pat Harrington, Debbie Paine; D: Robert Butler; W: Joseph L. McEveety; C: Frank Phillips; M: Robert F. Brunner. VHS, Beta DIS, OM