Target Movie Herbie Rides Again the Love Bug
| The Love Bug | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed past | Robert Stevenson |
| Screenplay by | Bill Walsh Don DaGradi |
| Story past | Gordon Buford |
| Produced by | Bill Walsh |
| Starring | Dean Jones Michele Lee David Tomlinson Buddy Hackett |
| Cinematography | Edward Colman |
| Edited by | Cotton Warburton |
| Music past | George Bruns |
| Production | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | United states |
| Language | English language |
| Budget | $five 1000000[1] |
| Box office | $51.three million [2] |
The Dearest Issues is a 1968 American comedy pic directed by Robert Stevenson and the outset in a franchise by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution that starred an anthropomorphic pearl-white, fabric-sunroofed 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie. Information technology was based on the 1961 volume Automobile, Male child, Girl by Gordon Buford.[ citation needed ]
The movie follows the adventures of Herbie, Herbie'due south driver, Jim Douglas (Dean Jones), and Jim's love interest, Carole Bennett (Michele Lee). It also features Buddy Hackett as Jim's enlightened, kind-hearted friend, Tennessee Steinmetz, a character who creates "art" from used car parts. English language actor David Tomlinson portrays the villainous Peter Thorndyke, the owner of an auto showroom and an SCCA national champion who sells Herbie to Jim and eventually becomes his racing rival.
Plot [edit]
Dean Jones in The Love Issues
Jim Douglas is a miserable race car driver, reduced to competing in sabotage derby races against drivers half his age. Jim lives in an old burn down house overlooking San Francisco Bay with his friend and mechanic, Tennessee Steinmetz, a jolly Brooklynite who constantly extols the virtues of spiritual enlightenment, having spent time amongst Buddhist monks in Tibet, and builds "art" from automobile parts. Afterward withal some other race ends in a crash (and Tennessee turns his Edsel into a sculpture), Jim finds himself without a car and heads into town in search of some cheap wheels. He is enticed into an upmarket European motorcar showroom after setting eyes on an attractive sales assistant and mechanic, Carole Bennett. Jim witnesses the dealership's British possessor, Peter Thorndyke, being unnecessarily abusive towards a white Volkswagen Beetle that rolls into the showroom, and defends the car's award, much to Thorndyke's displeasure. After Jim leaves, the car follows him dwelling on its ain, and parks itself outside the his firm. The post-obit morning time, a police officer informs Jim and Tennessee that Thorndyke is pressing charges for grand theft. A heated argument between Jim and Thorndyke is settled when Carole persuades Thorndyke to drop the charges if Jim purchases the automobile on a system of monthly payments.
Jim suspects Thorndyke has conned him when the motorcar, scared of the pike, goes completely out of his control. Tennessee, however, believes certain inanimate objects to accept hearts and minds of their own and tries to befriend the automobile, naming information technology Herbie. Jim'south feelings about his new acquisition soon improve when it appears that Herbie is intent on bringing him and Carole together. He as well discovers Herbie to have an incredible plough of speed for a car of his size and decides to have him racing. Later on watching Jim and Herbie win their first race together, Thorndyke, himself a major force on the local racing scene, offers to cancel the remaining payments Jim owes on Herbie if Jim can win a race where they volition both be competing at Riverside later on that month. Jim accepts, and despite Thorndyke's underhanded tactics, he and Herbie have the victory. Over the next few months, they get on to become the toast of the racing excursion, while Thorndyke suffers increasingly humiliating defeats. Thorndyke finally loses his composure and persuades Carole to accept Jim out on a engagement while he goes to Jim's house. Subsequently Tennessee gets drunk on his own Irish coffee recipe, Thorndyke proceeds to tip the remainder of the alcoholic coffee and whipped foam into Herbie's gas tank. At the following day'south race, an apparently hungover Herbie shudders to a halt and backfires while Thorndyke blasts to victory. Still, as the crowd admires Thorndyke's victory, Herbie blows some whipped foam out of his exhaust pipage, covering Thorndyke.
That evening, Carole comes to Jim'south house to aid Tennessee repair Herbie, having quit working for Thorndyke. While waiting for Jim to return, Tennessee tells Carole his thoughts almost Herbie having a mind of his ain, and she believes him. Jim arrives in a brand new Lamborghini 400GT for the upcoming El Dorado road race, intending to sell Herbie back to Thorndyke to pay the remaining installments that he owes on it. Tennessee and Carole angrily confront Jim to make him realize that Herbie was winning the races while Jim had very little to do with it. Herbie, feeling betrayed, proceeds to damage the Lamborghini, finally proving his sentience to Jim. Herbie then runs away just every bit Thorndyke arrives to collect him. Jim refuses Thorndyke's money, and sets off into the night hoping to observe Herbie and make amends. Afterward narrowly escaping beingness torn autonomously in Thorndyke's workshop, and a destructive spree through Chinatown, during the Chinese New Year'due south parade, Herbie is nigh to launch himself off the Golden Gate Bridge when Jim reaches him. In his attempt to stop Herbie from driving off the bridge, Jim nigh falls into the water. Herbie pulls Jim back to safety, but is then impounded by the San Francisco Police Department. In that location, Tang Wu (Benson Fong), a Chinese man of affairs whose store was damaged during Herbie's binge, demands bounty that Jim tin can no longer beget. Using the Chinese language he had learned while in Tibet, Tennessee reasons with Wu, and learns that he is a huge racing fan who recognizes Herbie from the racing magazines. Wu is willing to drop the charges in exchange for becoming Herbie'due south new owner. Jim agrees to this, as long as Wu allows him to race the car in the El Dorado. If Jim wins, Wu can keep the prize money, but volition have to sell Herbie back for ane dollar. Wu replies to this proposal in clear English: "At present yous speak my linguistic communication."
The El Dorado runs through the Sierra Nevada mountains from Yosemite Valley to Virginia City and back. Before the start of the race, Thorndyke persuades Wu to make a wager with him on its outcome. Thorndyke (with his assistant Havershaw acting every bit co-driver) initiates every trick known to man to ensure that he and his "Thorndyke Special" are leading at finish of the first leg of the race. As a result of Thorndyke's shenanigans, Jim (with Carole and Tennessee as co-drivers) limps dwelling house final with Herbie missing two wheels and having to use a wagon wheel to get to the stop line. Despite Tennessee's best efforts, information technology looks as if Herbie will be unable to start the render leg of the race the post-obit morning. Thorndyke so arrives and claims that this makes him the new possessor of the car. Wu regretfully tells Jim of the wager and that in accordance with its terms this is true. Thorndyke, thinking he is Herbie's new owner, gloats to Jim nigh what he is going to do to Herbie and kicks Herbie's front end fender, and punches Jim, only Herbie then unexpectedly lurches into life and chases Thorndyke from the scene, showing that he is more than than willing to race on. Cheers to some ingenious shortcuts, Jim is able to make up for lost time in the 2nd leg and is neck and cervix with Thorndyke equally they arroyo the end line. In the ensuing dogfight, Herbie'southward torso begins to crack between the front and rear seats. Tennessee attempts to repair these on the fly with a welder, but the cracks appear faster than he tin mend them and on the final dash to the stop line, Herbie splits in two. The dorsum half (conveying Tennessee and the engine) crosses the line just ahead of Thorndyke, while the front (carrying Jim and Carole) rolls over the line only backside, meaning Herbie takes both first and tertiary identify.
In accordance with the terms of the wager, Wu takes over Thorndyke'southward machine dealership (hiring Tennessee every bit his assistant), while Thorndyke and Havershaw are relegated to lowly mechanics. Meanwhile, a fully repaired Herbie chauffeurs the newlywed Jim and Carole away on their honeymoon.
Cast [edit]
- Dean Jones as Jim Douglas, a racing commuter
- Michele Lee as Carole Bennet, Jim'south dearest interest
- David Tomlinson as Peter Thorndyke, the owner of the car store
- Buddy Hackett equally Tennessee Steinmetz, Jim's friend and roommate and partner in racing
- Joe Flynn every bit Havershaw, Thorndyke'due south right-manus human being
- Benson Fong as Tang Wu, Jim's friend and team supporter
- Joe E. Ross as Detective
- Barry Kelley as Police sergeant
- Iris Adrian as Carhop
- Gary Owens equally Announcer
- Chick Hearn equally Journalist
- Andy Granatelli as Clan President
- Ned Glass every bit Toll Booth Bellboy
- Robert Foulk as Bice
- Gil Lamb equally Policeman at Park
- Nicole Jaffe as Girl in Dune-Buggy
- Wally Boag equally Flabbergasted Driver
- Russ Caldwell as Male child Driving Dune-Buggy
- Peter Renaday as Policeman on Bridge
- Brian Fong every bit Chinese carrying Herbie
- Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez as Mexican Commuter
- Dale Van Sickel as Driver
Production notes [edit]
Story and development [edit]
Dean Jones credited the film's success to the fact that it was the terminal live activeness Disney film produced nether Walt Disney'due south involvement, released just 2 years after his expiry in 1966. Although Jones tried to pitch him a serious, straightforward moving-picture show project concerning the story of the first sports automobile always brought to the United States, Walt suggested a different machine story for him, which was Car, Boy, Girl, a story written in 1961 by Gordon Buford.
Car, Male child, Girl; The Magic Volksy; The Delinquent Wagen; Beetlebomb; Wonderbeetle; Bugboom and Thunderbug were amid the original development titles considered for the pic before the title was finalized every bit The Love Bug.
Herbie competes in the Monterey Grand Prix, which, except for 1963, was not a sports car race. The actual sports car race held at Monterey was the Monterey Sports Auto Championships. The 1968 Monterey Grand Prix was in fact a Can Am Series race, and did not feature product cars.
Peter Thorndyke'southward yellow "Special" is actually a 1965 Apollo GT, a rare sports car congenital in the U.s.a. by International Motorcars in Oakland, California. It used an Italian-designed body along with a small-block Buick V8 engine. This car exists today, is in the easily of a private collector, and has been restored as it was seen in the pic with its yellow paint and number xiv logo.[3]
"Herbie" [edit]
One of the original cars used during the filming of The Love Issues
Before the pic entered production, the titular car was non specified every bit a Volkswagen Beetle, and Disney gear up a casting call for a dozen cars to audience. In the lineup, there were a few Toyotas, a TVR, a handful of Volvos, an MG and a pearl white Volkswagen Beetle. The Volkswagen Beetle was chosen as information technology was the but i that elicited the crew to reach out and pet it.[ citation needed ]
The Volkswagen make proper noun, logo or shield does not feature anywhere in the film, as the automaker did not permit Disney to use the name. The only logos can be briefly seen in at least two places, all the same. The first case is on the brake pedals during the first scene where Herbie takes control with Jim inside (on the expressway when Herbie runs into Thorndyke's Rolls Royce), and information technology is shown in all the future scenes when Jim is braking. The second instance is on the ignition key, when Jim tries to close down the braking Herbie. The later sequels produced, however, do promote the Volkswagen name (as sales of the Protrude were down when the sequels were produced). The VW "Wolfsburg" castle keepsake on the steering cycle hub is likewise seen throughout the car'south interior shots. Within the script, the auto was only ever referred to equally "Herbie", "the small motorcar" or "the Bug"—the latter, although a common nickname for the Beetle, was non trademarked by Volkswagen at the time of filming.
The car was subsequently given the name "Herbie" from one of Buddy Hackett's skits about a ski instructor named Klaus, who speaks with a German accent as he introduces his fellow ski instructors, who are named Hans, Fritz, Wilhelm, and Sandor. At the end of the skit, Hackett would say "If y'all ain't got a Herbie (pronounced "hoy-bee "), I ain't going."
Herbie'due south trademark "53" racing number was chosen by producer Bill Walsh, who was a fan of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game player Don Drysdale (Drysdale'southward bailiwick of jersey number, afterward retired by the team, was 53).
Walsh besides gave Herbie his trademark red, white and blue racing stripes presumably for the more patriotic color and came up with the moving-picture show's gags such equally Herbie squirting oil and opening the doors by himself.[4]
Benson Fong, who played Mr. Wu, said that when he and the others were dragged forth the dirt by Herbie, information technology was like existence pulled by 40 horses. The 1961–1965 Volkswagen Beetles actually were rated by the SAE at 40 horsepower (thirty kW) in manufactory configuration (though only 34 horsepower (25 kW) by the European DIN system which measured engine output as installed in the motorcar with cooling fan and exhaust arrangement attached).
Herbie has his own cast billing in the endmost credits, the only time this was washed in the entire series of films.
Today, but a handful of the original Herbie cars are known to exist. Motorcar #x was recovered from a warehouse in Pennsylvania, and has been preserved—still sporting its original paint from the moving picture.[5]
Deleted scenes [edit]
The bonuses on the DVD provide 2 deleted scenes named "Used Car Lot" and "Playground".
A scene shot, but non included in the terminal cut of the film, featured Jim calling at a used car lot prior to his visiting Thorndyke'south auto showroom. This missing sequence has long since been lost, and all that remains is the script and a single black-and-white photograph of Jim talking with the salesman at the lot.
An unfilmed scene at the end of the story that was scripted and storyboarded was to take shown Herbie playing with children at a nearby playground prior to taking the newly married Jim and Carole off on their honeymoon.
Stock footage [edit]
The opening scene of the sabotage derby cars is footage from the film Fireball 500. Parts of this scene can besides be found in a 1966-model year dealer promotional film by Chevrolet, titled Impact '66.
Shooting locations [edit]
Some of the racetrack scenes were shot at the Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.[6] Others were filmed at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California, Willow Springs Raceway in Willow Springs, California and Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills, California. Additional scenes depicting the El Dorado race were filmed almost the San Bernardino Mountains in Big Bear Urban center, California.[7]
Cast and coiffure [edit]
Andy Granatelli, who was popular at the time every bit a presence at the Indianapolis 500 as well equally the spokesman for STP, appears as himself as the racing association president. Journalist Gary Owens (of Rowan & Martin's Express joy-In fame) and Los Angeles Lakers play-by-play homo Chick Hearn likewise appear equally themselves. The driving scenes were choreographed by veteran stunt man Carey Loftin.
Drivers in the pic billed in the opening credits include Dale Van Sickel, Reg Parton, Regina Parton, Tom Bamford, Bob Drake, Marion J. Playan, Hall Brock, Beak Hickman, Rex Ramsay, Hal Grist, Lynn Grate, Larry Schmitz, Richard Warlock, Dana Derfus, Everett Creach, Gerald Jann, Pecker Couch, Ted Duncan, Robert Hoys, Factor Roscoe, Jack Mahoney, Charles Willis, Richard Brill, Roy Butterfield, Rudy Doucette, J.J. Wilson, Jim McCullough, Bud Ekins, Glenn Wilder, Gene Curtis, Robert James, John Timanus, Bob Harris, Fred Krone, Richard Ceary, Jesse Wayne, Jack Perkins, Fred Stromsoe, Ronnie Rondell, and Kim Brewer.
Cars featured [edit]
- 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta (#14)
- 1955 OSCA MT4 Barchetta (#18)
- 1957 Chevrolet Ii-Ten two-Door Sedan (#23)
- 1959 Devin D (#47)
- 1959 Austin-Healey 3000 (#64)
- 195x Kellison J4 (#82)
- 1960 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta SWB (#54)
- 1963 Apollo 3500 GT (#14)
- 1963 Shelby Cobra 289 (#20)
- 1963 Triumph Spitfire 4 (#96)
- 1964 Jaguar XK-E (#14)
- 1965 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray C2 (#29)
- 1961 Balchowsky Ol' Yaller MkIV (#41)
- 1966 Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2
- 1966 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray C2 (#20)
Promotion [edit]
During one scene in the film, Herbie has lost one of his wheels, and Tennessee is hanging out of the passenger side door to balance him. The door opens, and at that place is no "53" logo on the door. This epitome was used heavily to promote the motion picture.
Reception [edit]
The Honey Bug was the second-highest-grossing pic of 1969, earning over $51.ii 1000000 at the domestic box part. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, later earning a 78% "Fresh" rating from xviii critics on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.[8]
Vincent Canby of The New York Times panned the film equally "a long, sentimental Volkswagen commercial ... which has the course of fantasy-comedy, lots of not-very-special effects and no real humor."[ix]
Variety wrote, "For sheer inventiveness of situation and the amuse that such an idea projects, 'The Dear Bug' rates as i of the ameliorate entries of the Disney organization."[x]
Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called information technology
brisk, active, bright, technically impeccable, unproblematic-minded, full of tricky furnishings and gratuitous of all but the nearly glancing resemblances to nasty old reality. It is a formula flick, and such troubles as at that place are ascend mainly from the fact that the formula has known much stronger ingredients (Fred MacMurray and flubber, let's say) in the past.[11]
The Monthly Moving picture Message declared that "this very engaging mechanical fantasy is the all-time slice of piece of work from the Disney studios for some time. The caper appears to have had the effect of injecting life into Robert Stevenson's ordinarily pedestrian manner, since with the exception of one glutinously sentimental episode the step never lets upwardly."[12]
Comic book adaptation [edit]
- Aureate Key: The Love Bug (June 1969)[13] [14]
Legacy [edit]
Iv theatrical sequels followed: Herbie Rides Again, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Herbie Goes Bananas, and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Some parts of the racing sequences from the film were later reused for Herbie'south dream sequence in Herbie Rides Again, responding to Grandma Steinmetz's telling Willoughby Whitfield that Herbie used to be a famous racecar.
A five-episode television series, titled Herbie, the Beloved Bug, aired on CBS in the United States in 1982. Directed by Vincent McEveety, the series acted every bit a continuation of the films, with Dean Jones reprising his role as Jim Douglas. In 1997, there was a made-for-idiot box sequel which included a Dean Jones cameo, tying information technology to the previous films. The near recent sequel, Herbie: Fully Loaded, was released on June 22, 2005, past Walt Disney Pictures.
At Disney's All-Star Movies Resort at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, Herbie has been immortalized in the "Love Bug" buildings 6 and seven.
Home media [edit]
The film was released on VHS on March four, 1980. It was re-released on November 6, 1985, September xi, 1991 and on October 28, 1994 with Herbie Rides Over again. It was soon re-released again on September sixteen, 1997 along with the entire Herbie the Love Bug film series. It was released on DVD for the kickoff time on May 20, 2003. It was released once more with its sequels in a 4 moving-picture show collection in 2012. A 45th Ceremony Edition Blu-ray Disc was released on December sixteen, 2022 as a Disney Movie Club exclusive title.
Meet also [edit]
- Superbug (1971–1978)—a knockoff series of W German films also nearly a sentient Volkswagen Beetle named Dudu.
- Christine (1983)—a later supernatural horror picture show about an anthropomorphic autumn-red, hardtop 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine.
References [edit]
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey (1989). Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, p. 163, ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1.
- ^ "The Dearest Problems, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on Dec 25, 2011. Retrieved Jan ix, 2012.
- ^ "The Thorndyke Special". Barnfinds.com. 7 Nov 2013. Archived from the original on 2017-11-thirteen. Retrieved 2017-eleven-12 .
- ^ DVD commentary, The Dearest Bug, 2003
- ^ "The Love Bug Reunion". Barnfinds.com. 8 November 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-08-03. Retrieved 2014-02-21 .
- ^ Smith, Sam (May 2014). "Shelby, American". Route & Track. 65 (8): 65.
- ^ "The Love Bug: The Missing Eldorado Locations + ane". Archived from the original on 2017-xi-13. Retrieved 2017-xi-12 .
- ^ "The Love Bug, Picture show Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on Oct i, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (March 14, 1969). "The Screen: And At present a Word From..." The New York Times. 50.
- ^ "Picture show Reviews: The Dearest Issues". Variety. December 11, 1968. 6.
- ^ Champlin, Charles (March 27, 1969). "'The Love Problems' Screening at Grauman's". Los Angeles Times. Role Four, p. 1.
- ^ "The Dear Bug". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 36 (425): 127. June 1969.
- ^ "Golden Key: The Dearest Issues". One thousand Comics Database.
- ^ Gold Central: The Dearest Bug at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
External links [edit]
- Lovebugfans forum
- The Love Bug at IMDb
- Lovebugfans (archived)
- The Beloved Issues at AllMovie
- San Francisco in Movie theatre: The Love Bug
- The Beloved Bug at the TCM Film Database
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Bug
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