This movie follows the rivalry between a small-town southern sheriff and a small-town teenaged thief who steals cars and destroys them with the sheriff's daughter by his side.This movie follows the rivalry between a small-town southern sheriff and a small-town teenaged thief who steals cars and destroys them with the sheriff's daughter by his side.This movie follows the rivalry between a small-town southern sheriff and a small-town teenaged thief who steals cars and destroys them with the sheriff's daughter by his side.
William Forsythe
- Kenny
- (as Bill Forsythe)
Michael Greene
- Tall Arab
- (as Michael Green)
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- TriviaThe names of the four previous 1970s Roger Corman produced New World Pictures productions that this movie featured scenes from, which were mainly action car stunt sequences, and functioned as a form of stock footage in a sense for the film, were two titles from 1976 and two titles from 1977, they being [in approx. order]: Eat My Dust (1976), Moving Violation (1976), Thunder and Lightning (1977) and Grand Theft Auto (1977).
- GoofsWhen Sheriff Turner is seen beating up Sheriff Bleed in the final fight sequence, Charles Howerton can be seen laughing for a second.
- Quotes
Glen Wilson: Where did you learn to fly?
Helicopter Pilot: In the army.
Glen Wilson: What, The Salvation Army?
- Crazy creditsIn the final shot of the movie, a CGI Mercedes-Benz convertible drives through the screen, making it look like smashed glass. A montage of some of the stunts play through the cast credits.
- Alternate versionsThe UK theatrical version is cut by 36 seconds for a 'PG' rating. The '15' rated video release is uncut.
- ConnectionsEdited from Eat My Dust (1976)
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I first saw this in '85. Instead of having Burt Reynold's in the driver's seat, we have Jimmy McNicol, driving the local town cop (Barnes) insane, giving him daily chases and taunting him on his installed c.b. This time he's gone too far, where he runs off with Daddy's (Barnes's) little girl, and he's none too happy about. And it's prom night too. All this is a car chase movie, where forget plot or logic. We even see two ten plus kids smoke, the boy looking very much like that silent chubby kid, Peter in The Cosby Show. But unlike Cosby this isn't funny, just a sheer excuse to spend 86 minutes. We have impressive pile ups, crazy chases, a snake slithering across the road, near it's start, if to maintain further interest. Some known actors star in this, an early price to pay, for future stardom. We too have an imprisoned guy making moonshine, and a younger William Forsythe, a jock, who's girl is riding with Smokey (McNichol) though of course this is not the real character's name. What left me in puzzlement was it's enigmatic R rating. May'be it was the reference to watching two kids smoke. I don't know what else it could be, as this film doesn't deserve to go beyond a PG. May'be the censors were on a mental vacation, like the makers of this movie, and when the writer's surname is named after a piece of fruit, you know you got problems.
- PeterMitchell-506-564364
- Feb 13, 2013
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Smokey Bites the Dust (1981) officially released in Canada in English?
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