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

Eat My Dust!
Directed by	Charles B. Griffith
Written by	Charles B. Griffith
Produced by	Roger Corman
Starring	Ron Howard Christopher Norris Brad David
Cinematography	Eric Saarinen
Edited by	Tina Hirsch
Music by	David Grisman
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release date	April 7, 1976 (1976-04-07) [1]
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$300,000
Box office	$5 million[2]

Plot

When the clean-cut but rebellious son of a 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

External links

• Eat My Dust! at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Eat My Dust! at AllMovie
• Eat My Dust at IMDb
• Eat My Dust! at Rotten Tomatoes
• Eat My Dust! at the TCM Movie Database
• Alan Arkush on Eat My Dust! at Trailers From Hell

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