The end result of all these problems is a film that never manages to live up to its premise. Corvette summer 1978 opening title sequence youtube. Corvette summer 1978 dvd mark hamill annie potts for sale. The car has sideexit exhaust, or side pipes as they are more commonly called. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing corvette summer near you. Burt reynolds, frank welker, dom deluise and dean martin.
Corvette summer 1978 stream and watch online moviefone. Corvette summer 1978 is a racing adventure, comedy movie starring mark hamill and annie potts. With mark hamill, annie potts, eugene roche, william bryant. His search leads him to las vegas, where vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps. Corvette summer on dvd 012569675568 from warner bros directed by matthew robbins. The car was also painted candy apple cherry, given superior mags, a clamshell hood, gabriel shocks, merry tubes, a metal flake, sidepipes, and flames painted on the body. Corvette summer 1978 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers. Well, it did for one carcrazy movie released in the summer of 1978 anyway. The car action in corvette summer 1978 is awesome if a little cheesy but we wouldnt want it any other way straight off the back of his movie debut as luke skywalker in the blockbuster star wars, mark hamill was cast as a carcrazy teen in 70s cult flick corvette summer. Corvette summer trailer, 1978 by jason toon 7 years ago our 70s car movie trailer week concludes with the story of a regular kid from the middle of nowhere who dreamed of zooming across the galaxy in a powerful craft. Total number of members who have this title in their.
Ken is a high school student who is obsessed with exotic sports cars. The corvette ken dantleys mark hamill class has been restoring in their highschool shop class is nearly completely fixed up. His search leads him to las vegas, where vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down. Kim milford blows up a billboard advertising star wars. The highschoolsenior hero of corvette summer 1978 pledges his affections to a custom stingray that he designed and built as a shopclass thesis. The characters also refer to them as mercury tubes several times throughout the movie.
Staring annie potts, mark hamill, kim milford and william bryant. Stingray movie 1978 corvette summer video dailymotion. Display as images display as list make and model make and year year category importancerole date added new ones first episode appearance ep. Corvette summer trailer 1978 mark hamill annie potts. Robbies drivein presents corvette summer 1978 directed by. Watch corvette summer online stream full movie directv. It was mark hamills first screen appearance after the unexpected success of star wars the previous year. See more ideas about corvette summer, corvette and chevrolet corvette.
Michelins ultimate ultrahigh performance all season tire combining summer levels of wet and dry grip with cold weather and light snow mobility. Annie potts is just cute and sweet, and she also looks great in a pair of jeans. The 1978 film corvette summer is an adventure comedy film that was released to commercial acclaim in 1978, but fell off the radar for many years until interest in the film revived recently. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Download corvette summer 1978 torrents ext torrents. Mark hamill star wars heads towards vegas in pursuit of a stolen corvette he built.
She also voiced bo peep in the disney and pixar animated films. Mark hamill star wars and annie potts designing women make comedic and romantic sparks fly in a revvedup tale of carbrained kenny hamill, trailing a corvette thats mysteriously boosted after his high school shop. Corvette summer movie youre going to have the most turbocharged, chromeplated, plushlined, highgloss, superspeed customized time of your life. The biggest differences between the snowpiercer movie and tnts tv series. The corvette ken dantleys mark hamill class has been restoring in their. His shop class is working to restore a chevy corvette, and they have almost finished the restoration. Eugene harrison roche september 22, 1928 july 28, 2004 was an american actor. Chips started in 1977 and iirc ponchs firebird is first seen as a bad guys car in one of the first season episodes john is cut off by it and ends up in the hospital which would have been early 1978 and then ponch gets the car during. Corvette summer marks the first star appearance by annie potts, perhaps.
One day, the students walk in and it is gone apparently stolen. She was nominated for a golden globe award for corvette summer 1978 and won a genie award for heartaches 1981, before appearing in ghostbusters 1984, pretty in pink 1986, jumpin jack flash 1986, whos harry crumb. As the car accelerates away again, the actual functioning stock exhaust pipes can be seen exiting. Corvette summer never quite found an audience in 1978, but today it is a cultclassic among car enthusiasts, as well as star wars fans who are curious about what mark hamill was doing between luke skywalker gigs. Stingray movie trailer 1978 corvette summera high school grad and a hookerintraining try to track down his stolen corvette.
This is a charm piece that depends on the chemistry and skill of mark hamill and annie potts. When the high school shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. Mark hamill and eugene roche in corvette summer 1978 annie potts in. Get corvette summer dvd and bluray release date, trailer and movie stats. What more does a guy need for the wildest, weirdest, funniest, freakiest time of his life. Roche was born and raised in boston, massachusetts, the son of mary m. Check out this 1973 chevrolet corvette equipped with an l48 350 engine and turbo 350 automatic transmission, featured in the 1978 movie corvette summer.
Hamill stars as a california teenager who heads to las vegas to track down his beloved customized corvette stingray. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of corvette summer with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at. See rank corvette summer 1978 105 min adventure comedy 2 june 1978 usa 5. Corvette summer 1978 mark hamill region free dvd sealed. Corvette summer does benefit from matthew robbins visually slick direction, which makes inspired use of the films picturesque las vegas setting, but it fails to add any momentum to the undermotivated story. Costar annie potts, playing the quirky young woman he meets along the way, was.
Corvette summer cast and crew cast photos and info. The corvette car was a 1973 chevrolet corvette stingray converted to right hand drive so that mark hamill could hang out of the curbside window looking at the ladies. Corvette summer is a 1978 american adventure comedy film released by metro goldwynmayer. Corvette summer is a 1978 american adventure comedy film released by metrogoldwynmayer. Scenes of corvette summer 1978 for the best quality vintage movie stills please visit. As the old saying goes, if a guy is doomed to falling in love with something, better with a car than with a woman. Because its never too early to plan thursday night. In the scene during the car chase out of las vegas, the vette skids to a stop at the freeway deadend sign. Corvette summer is no academy award winning movie and its interesting to see post star wars, a new hope mark hamil in this movie but his character is neat and youthful. Corvette summer 1978 opening title sequence duration. As much as i share the love for stingrays, i equally love 70s ideas of hipness.
Instead, she helps him look for the missing car, and as they search, the two of them fall in love. Trailer for corvette summer 1978 starring mark hamill. This movie was rated pg when it was released in 1978, but if it were released today, it would probably carry a pg thanks to a. Corvette summer 1978 changes the movie database tmdb. Corvette summer by warner archive by matthew robbins. Here you can download free latest film online in hd quality print. A high school grad and a hookerintraining try to track down his stolen corvette. Corvette summer, from left, annie potts, mark hamill, 1978, mgmcourtesy everett collection corvette summer usa 1978 matthew robbins tophatted kootz danny bonaduce shows off aboard a customized chevrolet corvette stingray 1973. Anne hampton potts born october 28, 1952 is an american actress. Released 1978, corvette summer stars mark hamill, annie potts, eugene roche, kim milford the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 45 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic.
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