Dean Jones
Jim Douglas
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The Love Bug. Rating: G. Runtime: 1hr 47min. Release Date: March 13, 1969. Genre: Action-Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sports. Herbie, the lovable car with a mind of his own. Dean Jones, Michele Lee, and Buddy Hackett join Herbie in this revved-up comedy classic.
Race car driver Jim Douglas (Dean Jones) and his philosophical mechanic, Tennessee Steinmetz (Buddy Hackett), find themselves in possession of a white Volkswagen Beetle that seems to have a mind ...
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Meet Jim Douglas, a down-on-his-luck race car driver who lives in an old run-down fire house in San Francisco with his friend Tennessee Steinmetz, a occasional drunk mechanic. One day, Jim goes to a luxury car dealer and sees a strange Volkswagen Beetle with a unusual problem: it tends to drive on its own, as if it were sentient.
Oct 27, 2020 · A down-and-out race car driver becomes a champion after teaming up with a VW Bug who has a mind of its own. Watch as Herbie races past his rivals in this reimagined trailer for the Disney classic...
December 24, 1968 (limited) March 13, 1969. Running time. 108 minutes. Language. English. Followed by. Herbie Rides Again. Source. The Love Bug was the first in a series of movies made by Walt Disney Productions that starred a white Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie. It was based on the 1961 book Car, Boy, Girl by Gordon Buford.
Overview. Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky rival plots to steal him. Robert Stevenson. Director. Bill Walsh. Screenplay. Don DaGradi. Screenplay.
The Love Bug, American live-action comedy film, coproduced by Disney and released in 1968, that centred on “Herbie,” a Volkswagen Beetle that has human qualities. The film spawned a loyal fan movement and numerous sequels.
