Eat My Dust!

Eat My Dust! is a 1976 action film from New World Pictures starring Ron Howard.

Eat My Dust!
Directed byCharles B. Griffith
Produced byRoger Corman
Written byCharles B. Griffith
StarringRon Howard
Christopher Norris
Brad David
Music byDavid Grisman
CinematographyEric Saarinen
Edited byTina Hirsch
Distributed byNew World Pictures
Release date
  • April 7, 1976 (1976-04-07)
[1]
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$300,000
Box office$5 million[2]

Plot

When the clean-cut but rebellious son (Howard) of s small-town sheriff steals the race car of a professional driver, the sheriff forms a motorized posse to recover the car.

Production

Ron Howard had written a comedy with his father called Tis the Season and raised half the budget from Australia. He met with Roger Corman and agreed to star in the film provided the producer agreed to co-finance Tis the Season. Corman was not enthusiastic about the comedy but said if Howard appeared in Eat My Dust! he would let the actor develop a second film which Howard would direct as well as star in. This was Grand Theft Auto (1977).[3]

Charles Griffith directed the movie, which was shot in four weeks, although Howard's scenes were done in only ten days. It was originally titled The Car, and Griffith says he only suggested Eat My Dust! as a joke, but the marketing department at New World loved it.[2][4]

Cast

Release

The film premiered on April 7, 1976 in San Antonio.[1] It then opened in 100 theatres in Texas on April 23, 1976.[1]

Reception

TV Guide gave the movie two out of five stars, calling it below par, finding the movie enjoyable but mindless.[5]

References
  1. Eat My Dust! at the American Film Institute Catalog
  2. Christopher T Koetting, Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures, Hemlock Books. 2009 p 98
  3. Chris Nashawaty, Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses - Roger Corman: King of the B Movie, Abrams, 2013 p 151-2
  4. Aaron W. Graham, 'Little Shop of Genres: An interview with Charles B. Griffith', Senses of Cinema, 15 April 2005 retrieved 22 June 2012
  5. https://www.tvguide.com/movies/eat-my-dust/113758/
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