Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | |
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Directed by | Vincent McEveety |
Written by | Arthur Alsberg Don Nelson |
Based on | Characters by Gordon Buford |
Produced by | Ron Miller |
Starring | Dean Jones Don Knotts Julie Sommars |
Cinematography | Leonard J. South |
Edited by | Cotton Warburton |
Music by | Frank De Vol |
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Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $28 million[1] |
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.[2][3] 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.
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo was followed by Herbie Goes Bananas (1980).