Grand Theft Auto (1977) on Netflix
Paula Powers rejects the wealthy suitor her parents picked and runs off with Sam Freeman to marry in Las Vegas. They take her parents' Rolls-Royce. Spurned suitor Collins Hedgeworth gives chase.
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Plot summary
Bigby Powers is running for governor and wants his daughter Paula to marry Collins Hedgeworth, whose family is wealthy too. Paula loves her classmate Sam Freeman instead, and her father threatens to cut her off. Paula and Sam drive to Las Vegas in her parents' Rolls-Royce. Collins takes off after them, wrecking one car and stealing another. He calls radio DJ Curly Q. Brown and offers $25,000 to anyone who catches Paula, and a crowd of reward seekers joins the chase. Bigby asks his associate Ned Slinker to bring Paula and the car back and to have Sam jailed without the police or the news media involved. Collins's mother Vivian goes after her son, and Officer Norman Tad ends up chasing her.
Cast
- Peter Isacksenas Sparky
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Grand Theft Auto (1977)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- When Ron Howard pleaded with executive producer Roger Corman for an extra half day to reshoot a scene, Corman replied that Howard could come back if he wanted, but that nobody else would be there.
- As of 2025, Grand Theft Auto, which Ron Howard directed and starred in, remains the only film in which he did both.
- Grand Theft Auto's title came in a close second when Roger Corman tested titles for his earlier film Eat My Dust!, so he decided to use it for the follow-up.
