Smokey Bites the Dust (1981) on Netflix
PG19811h 27mActionComedyRomance
Sheriff Turner chases Roscoe Wilton, a teenager who steals cars and wrecks them. Roscoe takes the sheriff's daughter, Peggy Sue, along before she is crowned homecoming queen.
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Plot summary
Roscoe Wilton is a teenage car thief in Cyco County who takes cars for joyrides and wrecks them. Sheriff Turner and his deputies chase him. Turner's pursuit grows more determined after Roscoe takes his daughter, Peggy Sue, just before she is crowned homecoming queen at the high school football game. Roscoe's best friend Harold wants his father's car back, and Peggy Sue's friend Cindy carries the crown. Kenny, the quarterback, is in love with Peggy Sue. Lester, a local moonshiner, wants an Arab oil sheik to pay a million clams for his secret formula.
Cast
- Patrick Campbellas Lester
- Kedric Wolfeas Deputy Bentley
- Don Coreyas Short Arab
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Smokey Bites the Dust (1981)
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- Max Apple was sent to Texas to write a script around all the wrecks and chases, but he was not allowed to see the footage: it was too expensive to rent a Movieola and send him prints, so he had only vague written descriptions of the stunts, and nothing worked.
- Charles B. Griffith had made the popular Eat My Dust! for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, and Corman wanted a follow-up called Car Wars using stunt footage from five old New World films. Griffith wrote a script he later called Wham Bam, Merci, Madame, which he says Corman rejected before reactivating the project years later.
