Summaries

A race car driver is driving to a race in a motor home with his race car on a trailer. His car gets stripped of parts. He ends up with 6 orphan kids on his way to the race.

Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local Sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues, who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the Sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant father figure. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the Sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income.—Paul Emmons <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • texas
  • slimehouse
  • waitress
  • hixploitation
  • diner
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Sport
Release date Jul 15, 1982
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) PG
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations High Falls State Park, Jackson, Georgia, USA
Production companies Twentieth Century Fox Lion Share

Box office

Gross US & Canada $20225989
Opening weekend US & Canada $1946418
Gross worldwide $20225989

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 48m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

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