The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is a Walt Disney film from 1969, starring Alan Hewitt, Kurt Russell, Frank Webb, and Joe Flynn. It was the first in a trilogy of films made by Disney using the setting of Medfield College. The film is about a student, Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell), as well as his alma mater, Medfield College, a struggling private college. Dean Higgins resists Professor Quigley's request for a computer like State has; the students go t... more

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is a Walt Disney film from 1969, starring Alan Hewitt, Kurt Russell, Frank Webb, and Joe Flynn. It was the first in a trilogy of films made by Disney using the setting of Medfield College. The film is about a student, Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell), as well as his alma mater, Medfield College, a struggling private college. Dean Higgins resists Professor Quigley's request for a computer like State has; the students go to the A.J. Arno company, a sponsor of the college, which in lieu of an annual operating grant, instead gives its old computer to Medfield, to Higgins' anger. The gift by the company to Medfield seems harmless, until we find out that the A.J. Arno company's namesake and founder (Cesar Romero) is really the boss of a gambling ring with illegal operations all over the state. The computer that the company has given to the school is loaded with illegal information, which is put into Dexter Riley's head after he receives a huge shock while... less