Eat My Dust [VHS] |
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Staring:
Ron Howard, Christopher Norris, Brad David, Kathy O'Dare, Clint Howard
Director:
Charles B. Griffith
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Amazon.com
Way back in 1976, actor-director Ron Howard made a bargain with shlockmeister producer-director Roger Corman. It went something like this: Corman agreed to produce Howard's feature directorial debut, the 1977 Grand Theft Auto, and Howard agreed to star in another of Corman's pieces of drive-in fodder, the quirky Eat My Dust! Written and directed by Charles B. Griffith (a favorite screenwriter of Corman's who penned the original Little Shop of Horrors, among many others), Eat My Dust! is as wacked-out as anything to come out of the American International Pictures factory, and it is still surprisingly fresh and funny. Howard plays Hoover Niebold, son of a small-town, no-nonsense sheriff (Warren J. Kemmerling) and a prime candidate for dreary obscurity with his nowhere job and dull love life. Hoover takes a risk and asks out a popular girl (Christopher Norris), but after she demands that he steal the car of a professional racer (Dave Madden), the young hero abandons his innocence for a wild ride. Griffith hammers on the chase action sequences, bolting a camera to the car's hood to instill maximum vertigo in viewers, and constantly finding new and witty ways to jazz up scenes of speeding autos terrorizing the roads. But the real hook is the film's distinctive mix of youthful energy and comic irony, the latter exploding in Griffith's gallery of rural half-wits and neurotic, middle-class stereotypes. A whole cloth Z vision of teen rebellion writ large, Eat My Dust! is a corker. --Tom Keogh
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Gift, 2009-12-26
I purchased this for my husband for Christmas. We have not watched it yet, but are looking forward too.
The DVD looks new, so I can only assume that it is:) I didn't have to wait long to receive it.
Eat My Dust, 2008-04-06
I enjoyed the movie and the action scenes and would recommend to others to watch it.
Gotta have it in you car movie collection, 2008-12-09
This is the movie I would tell my freind about as an adult,and he had never heard of it. Then one night at Holliwood vid I saw it in the vhs section. Man I was excited!! Couldn't wait to get it in the player. Well it wasn't as good as I had rembered. But that isn't the point. Dukes of Hazzards not as great as it was when we were kids, but you still have to watch it every once in awhile! Anyways you get to see Ron Howard with a full head of hair lol and I think his brother is in it to. Car chases and a cute girl. What more could you ask for! Buy it
DVD's, 2008-06-19
Everything was perfect and they both work great and
the shipping was unbelievablly fast, very pleased.
Crazy action and fun, 2009-02-08
I just saw this movie on cable. WOW. I can't believe that I hadn't seen this movie before. I've always been a big fan of Ron Howard's movies (Apollo 13, Cocoon, Backdraft), and I expected something pretty decent. This movie was quite good. I admit it's not quite as good as Apollo 13, but considering it was made in the mid 1970's, it's damn good. For a comedy, the action scenes were really well done. The stunt driving and high speed chases were really impressive. I wish I had discovered this movie back then. I have to give this a 5 stars for being made in the 70's.
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302248265
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 6302248264
Label: Nelson Entertainment
Manufacturer: Nelson Entertainment
Publisher: Nelson Entertainment
Running Time: 89
Studio: Nelson Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1976-04 |
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