Herbie Rides Again
Herbie Rides Again is a 1974 comedy film. It is the sequel to The Love Bug, released six years earlier, and the second in a series of movies made by Walt Disney Productions starring an anthropomorphic 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie. The movie starred Helen Hayes, Stefanie Powers, Ken Berry, and Keenan Wynn reprising his villainous role as Alonzo Hawk originated in the films The AbsentMinded Professor and Son of Flubber.
Ruthless real estate magnate Alonzo Hawk Keenan Wynn is pursuing his newest indoor shopping center, the 130story Hawk Plaza. His only obstacle is an archaic firehouse inhabited by Grandma Steinmetz Helen Hayes, widow of its former owner, Fire Captain Steinmetz, and aunt of mechanic Tennessee Steinmetz who appeared in The Love Bug her displaced neighbor, flight attendant Nicole Harris Stefanie Powers and their sentient machines Herbie the Love Bug, an orchestrion that chooses its own songs, and a retired cable car known as Old No. 22. It is explained that Tennessee has gone to Tibet to visit his ailing philosophy teacher, while Herbies former owner, Jim Douglas, has gone to Europe.Hawk has made numerous attempts at evicting Mrs. Steinmetz, intending to imprison her in a retirement home of his own making but Hawks lawyers have been unsuccessful in these attempts, and when his lawyer nephew Willoughby Whitfield Ken Berry comes to visit him, Hawk sends him to Mrs. Steinmetz in their stead. Having met the firehouses inhabitants, Willoughby becomes disillusioned and decides to return home to Missouri. Nicole also punches Willoughby in the face upon learning he works for Hawk. She offers him a ride in Herbie, and Herbie goes berserk after Willboughy insults him twice, eventually taking the two to a car version of a joust tournament, which Herbie wins, earning Willboughy a whooping 3.00. The two then go to lunch, but Nicole hits Willboughy with a broiled lobster when he spits out Hawk is his uncle after going through an uninterrupted monologue on all the horrible things Hawk has done, including building a parking garage on the very same lot where Joe Dimaggio and his brother learned to play baseball. ........
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