Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Now You See Him, Now You Don't is a 1972 American science fiction comedy film starring Kurt Russell as a chemistry student who accidentally discovers the secret to invisibility.

Later that afternoon, Professor Lufkin shows Higgins around the science laboratory where Dexter is working on an experiment with invisibility and another student, Druffle, explores the flight of bumblebees.

Convinced that Druffle's bumblebee study would draw attention and investments to Medfield, Higgins reacts angrily when Dexter assures him that his invisibility formula could win the top prize money in the upcoming Forsythe science contest.

When the local television news covers Higgins' extraordinary golf game, he is invited to join an exclusive tournament in nearby Ocean City.

Learning of the tournament too late, Dexter misses the plane and is forced to watch the competition on television where Higgins' game against two professionals, Billy Casper and Dave Hill, is a disaster.

Hoping to assuage the crestfallen Higgins, Lufkin suggests that they give Dexter's unproven formula a chance and the dean reluctantly agrees.

Certain that if he could retrieve the formula before the Forsythe Award announcement that night he could still win the contest, Dexter sends Schuyler to the police and goes to inform the bank's president, Wilfred Sampson.

When an invisible Arno and Cookie knock out the guards and take the money, Dexter unsuccessfully tries to use a fire hydrant to hose the men down as they exit the bank.

[3] The Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales comic strip ran an adaptation written by Frank Reilly and drawn by John Uslher that appeared between April 2 and June 25, 1972.

A negative review came from The New York Times, which accorded: "Now with all due respect to children's intuition and judgment, may we suggest that they now try the Real McCoy, if they haven't already.

[5] A positive review came from Arthur D. Murphy of Variety, who wrote that "virtually all the key creative elements which early in 1970 made The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes a successful... Walt Disney feature have encored superbly in Now You See Him, Now You Don't".

[7] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called it "a modest program picture with a notably professional cast and offering special effects which are workmanlike rather than inspired".