Herbie Goes Bananas
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| Directed by | Vincent McEveety |
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Kevin Corcoran Ron Miller Don Tait |
| Written by | Don Tait |
| Based on | Characters created by Gordon Buford |
| Starring |
Cloris Leachman Harvey Korman Charles Martin Smith Stephen W. Burns John Vernon Elyssa Davalos Joaquin Garay, III Richard Jaeckel Alex Rocco |
| Music by | Frank De Vol |
| Cinematography | Frank Phillips |
| Edited by | Gordon D. Brenner |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $18,000,000 |
Herbie Goes Bananas is a 1980 American comedy adventure film and the fourth in a series of films made by Walt Disney Productions starring Herbie – the white Volkswagen racing Beetle with a mind of its own. The film stars former Mel Brooks collaborators Cloris Leachman and Harvey Korman.
Loosely picking up where Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo left off, protagonist Pete Stancheck (Stephen W. Burns) has inherited Herbie from his uncle Jim Douglas and travels to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with his friend Davy "D.J." Johns (Charles Martin Smith) to retrieve the car. There, they befriend Paco (Joaquin Garay, III), a comically mischievous, orphaned pickpocket.
Pete and D.J. board the Sun Princess, a cruise ship, to Rio de Janeiro to enter Herbie in the Brazil Grand Primeo, while Paco follows hidden in Herbie's cargo compartment. En route they meet an anthropology student named Melissa (Elyssa Davalos) and her extravagant, eccentric aunt Louise (Cloris Leachman), who is trying to find a husband for her niece. When Herbie wreaks havoc on board, Pete pretends to court Melissa, intending that her Aunt Louise will sponsor their race.
Meanwhile, Herbie helps Paco, who has dubbed the car 'Ocho', escape captivity. When the ship's captain Blythe (Harvey Korman) has his costume party wrecked by the boy and car, he puts Herbie on trial and sentences him to be dropped into the sea. However, later on land, Herbie resurfaces from the water to reunite with Paco, who then goes into business with Herbie as a taxi.
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