Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo 1977

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 105 min

genre: adventure

theme: sequel

director: Vincent McEveety

Score: 4 / 10

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo is a 1977 American sports adventure comedy film directed by Vincent McEveety and written by Arthur Alsberg and Don Nelson. The film is the third installment in the Herbie film series and the sequel to Herbie Rides Again (1974). In the film, Dean Jones returns as champion race car driver Jim Douglas (reprising his role from The Love Bug, the first film in the series), joined this time by his somewhat cynical and eccentric riding mechanic Wheely Applegate (Don Knotts). The film follows Douglas, Applegate, and Herbie as they participate in the fictional Trans-France Race, a road race from Paris, France, to Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Plot

Jim Douglas, his partner and mechanic Wheely Applegate, and Herbie arrive in Paris to qualify for and compete in the Trans-France Race (a fictional version of the Monte Carlo Rally), in the hopes of staging a career comeback. The team has three major opponents in the race: Bruno Von Stickle (Eric Braeden), a German driver with experience in the "European Racing Circuit," Claude Gilbert (Mike Kulcsar), a French driver, and Diane Darcy (Julie Sommars), a beautiful young woman and the only female driver in the Trans-France Race.

Cast

More details

author	Arthur Alsberg
contentLocation	Paris
director	Vincent McEveety
editor	Cotton Warburton
events	motor car
genre	adventure comedy
keywords	arrest build capture code name drive end french police grand prix gypsy camp jewel thieves lancia scorpion love at first sight misunderstand monte carlo rally rescue search upside down young woman
musicBy	Frank De Vol
producer	Ron W. Miller
productionCompany	Walt Disney Productions
publisher	Buena Vista Distribution
theme	race romantic comedy sequel stag