Classic about a professor that invents an anti-gravity substance he names flubber, that makes inanimate objects and people fly.

Dexter Riley, a handsome but bumbling Medfield College student, accidentally becomes The Computer Who Knew Too Much when he is transformed into a genius after an electrifying computer mishap. Dexter now poses a threat to a local gangster's dangerous gambling operation as the new intellect becomes a pawn in the tug-of-war between the greedy college deans and the underworld.

Set against the sun-bleached beauty of the isle of Crete, the story pits a young English tourist against a wily Greek jewel thief.