Mark Hamill
Kenneth W. Dantley Jr.
Search results
Jun 2, 1978 · Mark Hamill stars as a high school graduate who tries to recover his stolen Corvette with the help of a hooker-in-training. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more.
- (3.9K)
- Adventure, Comedy
- Matthew Robbins
- 1978-06-02
Corvette Summer is a 1978 American adventure comedy film directed by Matthew Robbins. It was Mark Hamill 's first screen appearance after the unexpected success of Star Wars the previous year. Hamill stars as a California teenager who heads to Las Vegas to track down his beloved customized Corvette Stingray.
- The Strange Corvette Build
- The Reception of Corvette Summer
- Where Is The Corvette Dream Now?
- GeneratedCaptionsTabForHeroSec
The actual car underneath all that body paneling was a 1973 Corvette C3 with an L48 5.7-liter V8 engine, the base model, that made 190 horses and ran on something that was called a Turbo 350 transmission. The Turbo bit was nothing but marketing lingo and had nothing to do with a turbocharger at all. Of course, there were two cars involved. One of t...
The Corvette Summer stalled. No, not the car, just the movie. Unlike MGM’s Greasethat cost only $6 million to make but earned a whopping $160 million, this one cost $9 million and raked in only $15.5 million in the US and some $36 million worldwide. The movie’s bombing was a result of the plot. As far as the car was concerned, people either hated i...
Corvette Summer came out in 1978 and the car was mostly forgotten and in the hands of private collectors till in 2011, Volo Auto Museum announced that it was auctioning this car off, along with more zany movie and TV cars. Yet again, the only thing known is that it was picked up by an Australian private collector, and the last we heard of it from t...
Learn how a 1973 Corvette C3 was transformed into a right-hand-drive, wide-body, turbo-looking monster for the movie Corvette Summer starring Mark Hamill. Find out what happened to the car after the movie flopped and where it is now.
- Automotive Writer
A high school grad and a call girl-in-training try to track down his stolen Corvette.Film: Corvette Summer (1978)Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-MayerDirector: Matthew...
- 105 min
- 2.2M
- Retrospective - Classic Movies
Watch Mark Hamill chase a stolen Corvette he built in this 1978 comedy adventure. Rent or buy the movie in HD on Amazon Prime Video and enjoy the road trip with Annie Potts.
- 104 min
A high school senior builds a custom-made Corvette for a shop class project, but it gets stolen and he goes to Las Vegas to find it. Along the way, he meets a hooker-in-training named Vanessa and faces danger and romance.
People also ask
Is Corvette Summer a good movie?
Who are the actors in Corvette Summer?
When did Corvette Summer come out?
What happened to the Corvette Summer?
Corvette Summer. A student hooker (Annie Potts) in a van picks up a Las Vegas-bound teen (Mark Hamill) on the trail of a stolen Stingray. Rent Corvette Summer on Fandango at Home, Prime...
- (9)
- Comedy, Drama
- PG
