Eat My Dust(480P)

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Not a bad movie! Seen this movie as a child, then as a teenager then as an adult on late night. One of those cheesy 70's car chase movies. Ron Howard is a young buck who grabs the old girlfriend and their is a bounty to grab the Rolls Royce and gal back to the rich family. The Drive Inn movie Burt Reynolds style car chases creates a movie version of the Duke of Hazards before its time. The characters phoning in the Radio stations adds humor by pushing silly 2 d flat characters into bad scenario for some stupid fun. .The ending with the Rolls Royce is great. Eat my Dust is in the same making as the Gumball Rally, Smokey and the Bandit etc. 6 stars.

Eat My Dust (1976) is a movie in my DVD collection that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a high school kid in the 70s who wants girls, fast cars and to have fun. He has the car, which helps him get the girl and leads to fun...but how much of the fun and girl is do to him versus the car? This movie is directed by Charles B. Griffith (Smokey Bites the Dust) and stars Ron Howard (Andy Griffith Show), Christopher Norris (Wonder Woman), Clint Howard (The Waterboy), Rance Howard (Small Soldiers), Dave Madden (The Partridge Family) and Warren J. Kemmerling (Godzilla, 1985). The cars in this are awesome. Even the cop cars are great. The cinematography is excellent and they use some fun fast-forward/rewind to capture stunts and cool car scenes. The comedic content is good and there are some fun circumstances throughout the picture. The acting by the Howard brothers and the supporting cast is perfect for the content. Overall this is a good character piece with some worthwhile coming of age elements. I would score this a 7/10 and strongly recommend it.

Egad . . . What a terrible movie. Production and videography was good but the rest of it is strictly third-run at the drive in. It's one of those bad movies that isn't bad enough to be good (i.e. Laugh provoking) . . . Just bad.

From the winning team of Roger Corman and Charles Griffith, with Bill Paxton as set designer... we have a fun little film about a sheriff's son who has a race car and outruns every cop who tries to stop him. Throw in a girl named Christopher and you have a movie! Ron Howard stars, with family Clint and Rance along for the ride. Allegedly, Howard only agreed to do this film after being given the chance to direct "Grand Theft Auto", catapulting his Oscar-winning career. Well played, Opie and Corman! The film as a whole is fun if you like seeing kids outrun cops, but the Chow Fongs car chase scene is the best. How could the building be so fragile and poorly constructed? How can a car flip so easily? It is pure genius!

Eat My Dust (1976) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Hoover (Ron Howard) loves hot rods and when he finds out that the girl of his dreams (Christopher Norris) likes them as well, he steals a professional racing car and the two head off with just about every cop in town chasing them. EAT MY DUST, as the title would suggest, is a chase picture from the drive-in days and as long as you don't take it too serious you should find yourself having a pretty good time. I think a lot of credit has to go to director Charles B. Griffith who keeps the action moving from start to finish and there's really not any dry spots. We get all sorts of wild chases and the director manages to make several of them quite memorable. This includes one scene where a cop car crashes and takes out the front of a store but the memorable thing is that the entire front falls down and we can see what the people inside are doing. Another good sequence deals with a bunch of shopping carts getting hit and this leads to all sorts of trouble for people in the same area as them. Even better are the car's point-of-view shots. These here certainly aren't ground-breaking but they're so interesting and they put you right in the middle of the action. Another major plus is that Howard and Norris are just so charming together that they keep you into the story even when there aren't any crashes going on. The supporting cast is charming as well and that includes Clint Howard playing yet another weirdo. EAT MY DUST isn't a classic by any stretch of the imagination but fans of chase pictures should be entertained.

Hoover Niebold (Ron Howard) is a car-nerd, and a prankster with his friends. His daddy is the law. They're at the car race. Snooty hot girl Darlene Kurtz is willing to ride with him if only he gets the red race car. So he steals the car and they go on a joy ride. Ron Howard wanted to direct his own movie and Roger Corman required him to star in this movie before giving him his directorial debut, Grand Theft Auto (1977). This is a thin script. I don't particularly care about any of these characters. Ron Howard is still a good lead. The rest can be left behind. There are some fun car action but that's the only good aspect. It's a B-movie with a named actor.

This is a cross between "Dukes of Hazzard" and "Happy Days" with a little "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" thrown in. It fails as a car chase movie. It fails as a comedy. It just flat FAILS.

Ron Howard (fresh off of Happy Days) was offered a two-picture deal with producer Roger Corman for New World Pictures, Howard agreed only if his next film would be a film he would direct himself and the deal was made. The movie itself is a standard low-brow car chase comedy and often too silly, but the script and direction by Charles Griffith is pretty good. The cinematography catches the car sequences impressively and the acting is good throughout, particularly by Warren Kemmerling as the cranky local sheriff.