Herbie Goes Bananas

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Herbie Goes Bananas
Directed by	Vincent McEveety
Produced by	Kevin Corcoran Ron Miller Don Tait
Written by	Gordon Buford Don Tait
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 V. Phillips
Editing by	Gordon D. Brenner
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures Corporation
Release date(s)	June 25, 1980
Running time	98 min.
Language	English
Preceded by	Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Followed by	The Love Bug (1997 film)
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Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) was the fourth of a series of films made by Walt Disney Productions starring Herbie – the white Volkswagen racing Beetle with a mind of its own.

This was the third sequel in The Love Bug (1969) series, and the last for 25 years until the release of Herbie: Fully Loaded in 2005.

Tagline: Olé! It's south of the border disorder when... [HERBIE GOES BANANAS!]

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Plot

Loosely picking up where Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo left off, Pete Stancheck (Stephen W. Burns) has inherited the one-of-a-kind automobile from his uncle Jim Douglas. Pete treks to Mexico with his friend Davy "D.J." Johns (Charles Martin Smith) to retrieve the car. There, they come across little Paco (Joaquin Garay, III), a puny orphaned pickpocket. Unbeknownst to them, Paco has hitched a ride under Herbie's hood to avoid three other irate victims of his thievery.

Pete and Davie board a ship to Rio de Janeiro to enter Herbie in the Brazil Grand Primeo. On the trip, they meet a shy bookworm named Melissa (Elyssa Davalos) and her extragavant, dotty aunt Louise (Cloris Leachman), who is trying to find a man for her niece. When Herbie wreaks havoc on board, Pete and Davie come up with a plan to cover the costs. Pete pretends to like Melissa and Aunt Louise is soon sponsoring the guys for their race.

Meanwhile, Herbie helps Paco, who has dubbed the car 'Ocho' (which means 'eight' in Spanish, Paco simply added together the individual numerals in Herbie's number 53), escape captivity. When the gung-ho Captain Blythe (Harvey Korman) has his costume party wrecked by the mischievous boy and car, he puts Herbie on trial and sentences him to be dropped in the sea. Herbie becomes a rustbucket as a result of immersion in the salt water, but is rescued from the sea by Paco and is later disguised as a taxi. Then there is an Incan gold plot, Herbie taking part in a bullfight, romance between Aunt Louise and Captain Blythe, and some bananas which are initially used to camouflage Herbie in a convoy of farm vehicles travelling to market – and later used to comic effect by Herbie and Paco in an attempt to stop the villains escaping in their plane. The bad guys (headed by Animal House alum John Vernon) are in pursuit of Paco, who misplaced some important film when he ripped off their wallets.

Herbie Goes Bananas did not do well at the box office during the summer of 1980.

[edit] Cast

Cloris Leachman .... Aunt Louise Charles Martin Smith .... D.J. John Vernon .... Prindle Stephen W. Burns .... Pete 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 José González González .... Garage owner Ruben Moreno .... Store owner Tina Menard .... Store owner's wife Jorge Moreno .... Bus driver Allan Hunt, Tom Scott .... Canal operators Hector Morales .... Mexican General Iris Adrian .... Loud American wife Ceil Cabot .... Mrs. Purkiss

Patricia Van Patten .... Cigarette guest Jack Perkins .... Loud American Henry Slate .... Off-watch officer Ernie Fuentos .... Native Antonio Trevino .... Pigeon owner Dante D'Andre .... Dr. De Moraes Alma Beltan .... General's wife Dolores Aguirre, Aurora Coria .... General's daughters Alex Tinne, Don Diamond .... Locals Warde Donovan .... Maitre d' Ray Victor .... Guard attendant Bert Santos .... Policeman #3 Buddy Joe Hooker .... Chef Steve Boyum .... Panama policeman Kenny Endoso .... Mexican policeman Mario Cisneros .... Puerto Vallarta policeman Jeff Ramsey .... The matador John C. Meier .... Ship's officer

[edit] Trivia

• Joaquin Garay, III was born the same year The Love Bug was released (1969).
• Herbie is not once referred to by his name by any of the principal characters in this movie; the only person who knows Herbie's true name is the garage owner.
• Although Captain Blythe claims at the costume party that his fancy dress outfit is an exact replica of that worn by Admiral Lord Nelson, this is not the case. Blythe sports an eyepatch, something which Nelson is rumored to have worn after he was blinded in his right eye but never actually did.
• The Herbie thrown into the sea was never retrieved, and its fate remains unknown; one can only assume that it is either rotting on the sea bed or is still bobbing around somewhere!
• This movie is very inaccurate when you take into account geography: there are no Plaza de Toro in Panama; although there are Panamanian locations featured, most of the movie seemed to be filmed in Mexico, since most people dress in Mexican fashions; and Peru cannot be reached from Panama by land (the trip would take at least four days and five nights of travel).
• Only a few of the rust Herbies that were used are left despite being sold for a mere $25.00 each, cheaper than even a junked Honda Civic at the time.
• The dilapidated bus that Melissa purchases from the bus driver toward the middle of the movie appears to be a 1957-60 Ford with a Blue Bird school bus body.

[edit] External links

• Herbie Goes Bananas at the Internet Movie Database
• Herbie Goes Bananas at All Movie Guide
• Herbie Goes Bananas at Rotten Tomatoes
• Herbie Goes Bananas at Box Office Mojo
• Herbie Mania Website

The Herbie films
The Love Bug (1969) • Herbie Rides Again (1974) • Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) • Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) • Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) Made for TV: Herbie the Matchmaker (1982) • The Love Bug (1997)