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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD EAN: 9786305261308 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC ISBN: 630526130X Label: New Concorde Languages: Manufacturer: New Concorde Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Concorde Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 23, 1999 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: New Concorde Theatrical Release Date: 1976-04 Editorial Review: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - DVD'sEverything was perfect and they both work great and the shipping was unbelievablly fast, very pleased. Rating:  - If the Dukes of Hazzard were from CaliforniaIf you like the Dukes of Hazzard, the 3 stooges, the movie Wild HOGS, you would probably like Eat my DUST. If Ron HOward wasn't emberessed, before, I bet he is now. Corny, predictable, I AM embarressed I got the DVD-thank God I didn't see it in public. I give it the ONE star for the sound track full of engine sounds. Rating: - Low budget classic.This is a fun film that was very low budget. I liked it because of all the chases, but it really drags out. Plus the movie just ends and leaves you with a little disappointment. Makes you wonder what happens next. Over all this was an good movie with a few funny parts and good car chases. Rating: - Fun 70s Car-Chase Flick and... the Luscious Christopher Norris!This is merely another one of those many 70s car-chase films. It's fun & mindless and features some beautiful rural California locations. Plus, how can you go wrong with the likable Ron Howard? The film was a box-office success for producer Roger Corman, which naturally led to the demand for a sequel. But Ron Howard didn't want money to perform in the sequel, he just wanted the opportunity to write and direct it (not to mention act in it). Thus came the hugely popular "Grand Theft Auto," ... Read More Rating:  - Misses the boatOne thing you will always get when you watch a Roger Corman film, whether the man produced or directed it, is a healthy helping of cheese. It doesn't matter who stars in the film or what sort of genre film it is, you just know what you're about to see will exude that instantly recognizable low budget fragrance. "Eat My Dust!" probably ranks in the top ten of Corman classics, not because it is better than any of the other schlock productions carrying the Corman tag but because Ron Howard stars in it. In ... Read More |
