According to the 16 jun 1977 hr, corvette summer served as the motion picture debut of actress annie potts. 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. Staring annie potts, mark hamill, kim milford and william bryant. Check out this 1973 chevrolet corvette equipped with an l48 350 engine and turbo 350 automatic transmission, featured in the 1978 movie corvette summer. Mark hamill does a great job in this film playing obsessed kenny who is in love with the corvette he fixed up. Looking corvette summer kit scale auto magazine for. Corvette summer is a semiteen adventure in the style of something like rock nroll high school the ramones movie, not that corey feldman comedy, minus the rock music theme. Corvette summer on dvd 012569675568 from warner bros directed by matthew robbins. Corvette summer is a 1978 american adventure comedy film released by metrogoldwynmayer. Ken is a high school student who is obsessed with exotic sports cars.
The end result of all these problems is a film that never manages to live up to its premise. This is a no brainer movie if you just want a few laughs and relax withy a blow of popcorn and enjoy a. Annie has also graced the stage to play broadway roles such as annette in god of carnage 20092010 and berthe in pippin 2014. Corvette summer trailer 1978 mark hamill annie potts. Save corvette summer movie car to get email alerts and updates on your ebay feed. But the story doesnt really begin until the car gets stolen and kenneth has to get it back. As the old saying goes, if a guy is doomed to falling in love with something, better with a car than with a woman. Directed by matthew robbins, corvette summer 1978 is about an eighteenyearold car enthusiast named kenneth mark hamill. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. See more ideas about corvette summer, corvette and chevrolet corvette. Corvette summer dvd movies for sale shop with afterpay. The corvette ken dantleys mark hamill class has been restoring in their highschool shop class is nearly completely fixed up.
Watch corvette summer online stream full movie directv. That and that it apparently involved a corvette and, i suppose, a summer were all i knew about this film. I think he made it with some cool rock stars or something. It was mark hamills first screen appearance after the unexpected success of star wars the previous year.
Get corvette summer dvd and bluray release date, trailer and movie stats. Hamill stars as a california teenager who heads to las vegas to track down his beloved customized corvette stingray. His search leads him to las vegas, where vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down. Corvette summer was always famous to me for being the film that mark hamill did immediately after star wars.
Still, if you are a forever fan of death race 2000, or batman dark knight, or indiana jones, youll find something to love. Scale auto is the leading authority for car modelers. Corvette summer dvd, 2012 mark hamill annie potts 1978 film 5 out of 5 stars 45 product ratings 45 product ratings corvette summer dvd, 2012 mark hamill annie potts 1978 film. In corvette summer, a romantic comedy adventure from the mid70s, a loner named kenneth w. The car has sideexit exhaust, or side pipes as they are more commonly called. Ala sonny crokett of miami vice fame and his earlier mid 1970s movie with nick nolte with them and their souped up car traveling around. In the early 1990s, an ad in variety magazine offered full sale of the rights to the film, but it is unclear if they were purchased. The 1978 film corvette summer is an adventure comedy film that was released to commercial acclaim in but fell off the radar for many years until interest in the film revived recently. For years, it was described as in development andor partially or fully completed. We cover the latest styrene, resin, and aftermarket kits, paint, photoetched parts, books. Once completed, the team heads out to cruise van nuys, california. The corvette summer car is just one of twenty vehicles being offered that have seen previous duty in hollywoods big screen productions.
As the car accelerates away again, the actual functioning stock exhaust pipes can be seen exiting. What more does a guy need for the wildest, weirdest, funniest, freakiest time of his life. Corvette summer isnt some lost classic or even a cult favorite. And, even though i rarely enjoy mark hammils performances, and even despite his not looking much like a high school teen he was 27, he and annie potts had great.
Watch corvette summer full movie in hd visit movie 27201 ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the high school shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. But as a star warsloving cinephile, id always been curious to check it out. Corvette summer does benefit from matthew robbins visually slick direction, which makes inspired use of the film s picturesque las vegas setting, but it fails to add any momentum to the undermotivated story. Corvette summer 1978 movie clip this is a field trip. His search leads him to las vegas, where vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps. Corvette summer 1978 full movie download full hd youtube. He plays kenny dantley, a naive but goodhearted high school senior who leads a shopclass build of a custom corvette under the tutelage of teacher ed mcgrath eugene roche. Annie potts height, weight, age, body statistics healthy.
In the scene during the car chase out of las vegas, the vette skids to a stop at the freeway deadend sign. Charles band productions announced a sequel, tentatively titled laserblast 2, in the 1980s. Corvette summer cocktail is featured in an old episode of anthony bourdains show. Video archive for the film corvette summer, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 1978. 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. One day, the students walk in and it is gone apparently stolen. Pdf 1978 chevrolet service manual chevrolet malibu camaro monte carlo nova corvette pdf full ebook. Display as images display as list make and model make and year year category importancerole date added new ones first episode appearance ep. A high school grad and a hookerintraining try to track down his stolen corvette. Trailer for corvette summer 1978 starring mark hamill. Soon after being completed and a few test drives the car is stolen. Corvette summer 1978 stream and watch online moviefone.
The characters also refer to them as mercury tubes several times throughout the movie. Corvette summer cocktail is basically a paloma but cooler. Corvette summer 1978 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers. The movie, which is a priceless time capsule that combines the 70s muscle car craze, hot stars mark hamill and annie potts, and a really good story. The corvette functions as a reflection of digglers corruption. Some are blockbusters, and others well, maybe not so much. With mark hamill, annie potts, eugene roche, william bryant. Annie potts is an american actress who is known for her appearances in many films like corvette summer 1978 and ghostbusters 1984. Heavily involved in his highschools auto body club, he works to create a masterpiece out of a totaled stingray. Mark hamill follows up his instant star wars stardom with this tale of a boy and his search for a stolen. 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. Corvette summer, movie, 1978 internet movie cars database. The highschoolsenior hero of corvette summer 1978 pledges his affections to a custom stingray that he designed and built as a shopclass thesis. His shop class is working to restore a chevy corvette, and they have almost finished the restoration.
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