Eat My Dust! (1976)

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(Foreign Titles)

Nomination Year: 2009

SYNOPSIS: The thing about eating dust? It leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Much like this Roger Corman film starring Ron Howard as a teen named "Hoover" who likes driving fast cars a little too much. Can even his father (the small-town Sheriff) save him from jail after he steals a race car in order to impress a local girl?

Kevin Hogan

Smithee Award Nominations

Worst Cover Copy

Roger Corman Presents a Roger Corman Film Not Starring Roger Corman...

The front cover has a goofy line drawing with Roger Corman's name across the top. On the back, you have a black-and-white still showing Ron Howard in some other movie (this movie is in color, and he's a bit older). Most of the back cover text is taken up with Roger Corman, though. There are a grand total of 25 words on the back cover describing this movie, and that includes "Watch Opie go berserk in Eat My Dust. Starring Ron Howard." Clearly Roger Corman is the true star of this film that he neither wrote nor directed nor appeared in....

Sorry, this cover has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Charles B. Griffith	writer and sometime director of many Roger Corman "classics": Death Race 2000, Little Shop of Horrors, etc.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Ron Howard	<Not Yet in Database>	Former child star ("Opie" on The Andy Griffith Show), then young star ("Richie" on Happy Days), now famous hot-shot director
Clint Howard	<Not Yet in Database>	Started off as the "This is Tranya" kid on Star Trek, later played with "Gentle Ben," then got relegated to a life of B-Movies. Wouldn't be half so sad if he weren't brother to superstar/director Ron Howard.
Warren J. Kemmerling	<Not Yet in Database>
Charles Howerton	Deputy Jay Beah	Played lots of cops/detectives/agents. Did the opening voice-over for the "Alien Nation" show (uncredited).
Rance Howard	<Not Yet in Database>	Dad to Ron and Clint Howard
Corbin Bernsen	<Not Yet in Database>	Blond and has many, many roles: Was Arnie Becker on "L.A. Law"; Roger Dorn in the Major League movies; John Durant on "General Hospital"; and Dr. Alan Feinstone in The Dentist movies...


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