Eat My Dust (1976) on Netflix
Hoover Niebold, a car-crazy teenager, takes racer Big Bubba Jones's race car to impress a girl from his school. His father, Sheriff Harry Niebold, is furious and sends his deputies after him.
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Plot summary
Harry Niebold is the sheriff of a small town, and his son Hoover is a teenager who is crazy about cars. Hoover takes the race car belonging to local driver Big Bubba Jones and drives off with a girl from his school, hoping to impress her. When Harry learns what his son has done, he is furious and orders his deputies to go after the car. The deputies set off after Hoover, and the sheriff puts together a motorized posse of local drivers to get the car back.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Eat My Dust (1976)
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- Roger Corman offered the lead role to Ron Howard with a $75,000 fee; Howard read the script on the set of Happy Days and thought it terrible, a broad, zany car-chase comedy with weak jokes and cardboard characters.
- Ron Howard agreed to star in Eat My Dust! only if Roger Corman co-financed Tis the Season, a comedy Howard had written with his father and half-funded from Australia; Corman was unenthusiastic but offered him a second film he might direct and star in.
- Corman went on to finance Ron Howard's own film idea, which became Grand Theft Auto (1977), Howard's directorial debut.
- Ron Howard said making the movie "damn near killed me": he was shooting Happy Days and had been cast in The Shootist, so production was scheduled to film all his scenes in 11 days.
- Roger Corman said Eat My Dust! was the first New World movie to earn $5 million in rentals; The Private Eyes and The Prize Fighter later beat that mark.
- Charles Griffith suggested the title Eat My Dust! as a joke, but the marketing department at New World loved it; the film had originally been titled The Car.
- Eat My Dust! was Charles B. Griffith's first film as director since Forbidden Island in 1959; in between he directed second unit on films including The Young Racers, The She Beast and Death Race 2000.
