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After inventing a special mind-reading helmet, college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) learns of a crime a local judge (Leon Ames) is secretly plotting to commit. This Walt Disney production sees college student Merlin Jones involved in scientific experiments involving the deepest recesses of the mind. Disney veteran Tommy Kirk is Merlin Jones, an oddball college inventor. With help from his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), he must set to right all that has gone wrong.
It is a fun and whacky (did I actually use that word?) Read more. Merlin Jones, the gifted but slightly oddball student who, accompanied by his girlfriend Jennifer, sets out on a series of comic misadventures.
As part of his experiment into the helmet, Merlin sets out in his car to test the recording of his mental activity. In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the consequences of its use prove to be a lot of trouble. Arrested by a cop, Merlin is dragged before Judge Holmby, a local judge who Merlin and girlfriend Jennifer fear has his own reasons for wanting to get his hands on the mind helmet.
You'd suspect we're in the 1960s and you'd be right, as Misadventures opened in theaters forty years ago. After inventing a special mind-reading helmet, college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) learns of a crime a local judge (Leon Ames) is secretly plotting to commit.
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is available to watch and stream, buy on demand at Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube VOD online. Merlin has developed a helmet capable of recording mental activity that could change the way humans look at the World and how the mind works. When the police won't listen, Merlin teams up with his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), and the two manage to sneak into the judge's house looking for evidence of criminal behavior. From trying to solve what appears to be a horrendous burglary and murder plot to having a chimp-napping charge pinned on him, no one is exempt from Merlin's wacky sense of oddball adventure! The movie spawned the sequel Monkey's Uncle two years later. The Misadventures of Merlin Jones 1963 MISADVENTURES OF MERLIN JONES, THE - A bright college student applies his newly-acquired knowledge of hypnotism with some near-disastrous results.
After inventing a special mind-reading helmet, college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) learns of a crime a local judge (Leon Ames) is secretly plotting to commit. This Walt Disney production sees college student Merlin Jones involved in scientific experiments involving the deepest recesses of the mind. Disney veteran Tommy Kirk is Merlin Jones, an oddball college inventor. With help from his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), he must set to right all that has gone wrong.
It is a fun and whacky (did I actually use that word?) Read more. Merlin Jones, the gifted but slightly oddball student who, accompanied by his girlfriend Jennifer, sets out on a series of comic misadventures.
As part of his experiment into the helmet, Merlin sets out in his car to test the recording of his mental activity. In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the consequences of its use prove to be a lot of trouble. Arrested by a cop, Merlin is dragged before Judge Holmby, a local judge who Merlin and girlfriend Jennifer fear has his own reasons for wanting to get his hands on the mind helmet.
You'd suspect we're in the 1960s and you'd be right, as Misadventures opened in theaters forty years ago. After inventing a special mind-reading helmet, college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) learns of a crime a local judge (Leon Ames) is secretly plotting to commit.
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is available to watch and stream, buy on demand at Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube VOD online. Merlin has developed a helmet capable of recording mental activity that could change the way humans look at the World and how the mind works. When the police won't listen, Merlin teams up with his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), and the two manage to sneak into the judge's house looking for evidence of criminal behavior. From trying to solve what appears to be a horrendous burglary and murder plot to having a chimp-napping charge pinned on him, no one is exempt from Merlin's wacky sense of oddball adventure! The movie spawned the sequel Monkey's Uncle two years later. The Misadventures of Merlin Jones 1963 MISADVENTURES OF MERLIN JONES, THE - A bright college student applies his newly-acquired knowledge of hypnotism with some near-disastrous results.
After inventing a special mind-reading helmet, college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) learns of a crime a local judge (Leon Ames) is secretly plotting to commit. This Walt Disney production sees college student Merlin Jones involved in scientific experiments involving the deepest recesses of the mind. Disney veteran Tommy Kirk is Merlin Jones, an oddball college inventor. With help from his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), he must set to right all that has gone wrong.
It is a fun and whacky (did I actually use that word?) Read more. Merlin Jones, the gifted but slightly oddball student who, accompanied by his girlfriend Jennifer, sets out on a series of comic misadventures.
As part of his experiment into the helmet, Merlin sets out in his car to test the recording of his mental activity. In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the consequences of its use prove to be a lot of trouble. Arrested by a cop, Merlin is dragged before Judge Holmby, a local judge who Merlin and girlfriend Jennifer fear has his own reasons for wanting to get his hands on the mind helmet.
You'd suspect we're in the 1960s and you'd be right, as Misadventures opened in theaters forty years ago. After inventing a special mind-reading helmet, college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) learns of a crime a local judge (Leon Ames) is secretly plotting to commit.
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is available to watch and stream, buy on demand at Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube VOD online. Merlin has developed a helmet capable of recording mental activity that could change the way humans look at the World and how the mind works. When the police won't listen, Merlin teams up with his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), and the two manage to sneak into the judge's house looking for evidence of criminal behavior. From trying to solve what appears to be a horrendous burglary and murder plot to having a chimp-napping charge pinned on him, no one is exempt from Merlin's wacky sense of oddball adventure! The movie spawned the sequel Monkey's Uncle two years later. The Misadventures of Merlin Jones 1963 MISADVENTURES OF MERLIN JONES, THE - A bright college student applies his newly-acquired knowledge of hypnotism with some near-disastrous results.
After inventing a special mind-reading helmet, college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) learns of a crime a local judge (Leon Ames) is secretly plotting to commit. This Walt Disney production sees college student Merlin Jones involved in scientific experiments involving the deepest recesses of the mind. Disney veteran Tommy Kirk is Merlin Jones, an oddball college inventor. With help from his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), he must set to right all that has gone wrong.
It is a fun and whacky (did I actually use that word?) Read more. Merlin Jones, the gifted but slightly oddball student who, accompanied by his girlfriend Jennifer, sets out on a series of comic misadventures.
As part of his experiment into the helmet, Merlin sets out in his car to test the recording of his mental activity. In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the consequences of its use prove to be a lot of trouble. Arrested by a cop, Merlin is dragged before Judge Holmby, a local judge who Merlin and girlfriend Jennifer fear has his own reasons for wanting to get his hands on the mind helmet.
You'd suspect we're in the 1960s and you'd be right, as Misadventures opened in theaters forty years ago. After inventing a special mind-reading helmet, college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) learns of a crime a local judge (Leon Ames) is secretly plotting to commit.
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is available to watch and stream, buy on demand at Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube VOD online. Merlin has developed a helmet capable of recording mental activity that could change the way humans look at the World and how the mind works. When the police won't listen, Merlin teams up with his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), and the two manage to sneak into the judge's house looking for evidence of criminal behavior. From trying to solve what appears to be a horrendous burglary and murder plot to having a chimp-napping charge pinned on him, no one is exempt from Merlin's wacky sense of oddball adventure! The movie spawned the sequel Monkey's Uncle two years later. The Misadventures of Merlin Jones 1963 MISADVENTURES OF MERLIN JONES, THE - A bright college student applies his newly-acquired knowledge of hypnotism with some near-disastrous results.
After inventing a special mind-reading helmet, college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) learns of a crime a local judge (Leon Ames) is secretly plotting to commit. This Walt Disney production sees college student Merlin Jones involved in scientific experiments involving the deepest recesses of the mind. Disney veteran Tommy Kirk is Merlin Jones, an oddball college inventor. With help from his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), he must set to right all that has gone wrong.
It is a fun and whacky (did I actually use that word?) Read more. Merlin Jones, the gifted but slightly oddball student who, accompanied by his girlfriend Jennifer, sets out on a series of comic misadventures.
As part of his experiment into the helmet, Merlin sets out in his car to test the recording of his mental activity. In this Disney family film, brainy college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) invents a mind-reading machine, but the consequences of its use prove to be a lot of trouble. Arrested by a cop, Merlin is dragged before Judge Holmby, a local judge who Merlin and girlfriend Jennifer fear has his own reasons for wanting to get his hands on the mind helmet.
You'd suspect we're in the 1960s and you'd be right, as Misadventures opened in theaters forty years ago. After inventing a special mind-reading helmet, college student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk) learns of a crime a local judge (Leon Ames) is secretly plotting to commit.
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is available to watch and stream, buy on demand at Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube VOD online. Merlin has developed a helmet capable of recording mental activity that could change the way humans look at the World and how the mind works. When the police won't listen, Merlin teams up with his girlfriend (Annette Funicello), and the two manage to sneak into the judge's house looking for evidence of criminal behavior. From trying to solve what appears to be a horrendous burglary and murder plot to having a chimp-napping charge pinned on him, no one is exempt from Merlin's wacky sense of oddball adventure! The movie spawned the sequel Monkey's Uncle two years later. The Misadventures of Merlin Jones 1963 MISADVENTURES OF MERLIN JONES, THE - A bright college student applies his newly-acquired knowledge of hypnotism with some near-disastrous results.
"The Misadventures of Merlin Jones" is a Disney classic that the entire family can enjoy. film that is easy to just sit back and relax-while-you-watch. The Misadventures of Merlin Jones opens with an Annette Funicello song and accompanying paper cutouts credits sequence. The cast (especially Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, and the chimp) is a perfect ingredient for the formula that is classic Disney nostalgia.