Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Cloris Leachman	...	Aunt Louise
	Charles Martin Smith	...	D.J.
	John Vernon	...	Prindle
	Stephen W. Burns	...	Pete (as Stephan W. Burns)
	Elyssa Davalos	...	Melissa
	Joaquin Garay III	...	Paco
	Harvey Korman	...	Captain Blythe
	Richard Jaeckel	...	Shepard
	Alex Rocco	...	Quinn
	Fritz Feld	...	Chief Steward
	Vito Scotti	...	Armando Moccia
	Jose Gonzales-Gonzales	...	Garage Owner (as Jose Gonzalez Gonzalez)
	Ruben Moreno	...	Store Owner
	Tina Menard	...	Store Owner's Wife
	Jorge Moreno	...	Bus Driver

Storyline

Pete Stancheck inherits from his Uncle Jim Douglas a race car being stored in Puerto Vallarta. With his friend Davy Johns (D.J. to his friends) accompanying him to P.V., Pete is dismayed to learn that the car is an older model Volkswagen Beetle. But when Pete and D.J. see what the car can do and learn that it somewhat has a mind of its own, they decide to enter it into the Brazil Grand Primeo formula one race. En route to Rio de Janeiro, Herbie, the car, gets Pete and D.J. into one predicament after another as it tries to help its new friend, a streetwise orphan named Paco, who Pete and D.J. encountered in P.V. and who stowed away in Herbie's trunk. Because of these predicaments, Pete and D.J. end up requiring a quick influx of cash and slyly enlist the help of wealthy Louise Trent and her bookish niece, anthropology doctoral candidate Melissa, to be their financiers. Pete's role in the scheme is to woo the shy Melissa... Written by Huggo  

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