Herbie Goes Bananas

• CL Cloris Leachman Aunt Louise Trends

  Aunt Louise Trends

  Melissa's extravagant, husband-hunting aunt.

• CM Charles Martin Smith Davy 'D.J.' Johns

  Davy 'D.J.' Johns

  Pete's loyal, easygoing buddy.

• SW Stephan W. Burns Pete Stancheck

  Pete Stancheck

  Jim Douglas's nephew and Herbie's new owner.

• ED Elyssa Davalos Melissa

  Melissa

  An anthropology student who knows a thing or two about Inca ruins.

• JG Joaquin Garay III Paco

  Paco

  A street-smart orphan pickpocket who becomes Herbie's best friend.

• HK Harvey Korman Captain Blythe

  Captain Blythe

  The Sun Princess's overwhelmed captain.

• JV John Vernon Prindle

  Prindle

  Leader of the gold-thieving trio.

• RJ Richard Jaeckel Shepard

  Shepard

  One of Prindle's henchmen.

• AR Alex Rocco Quinn

  Quinn

  The third member of the gang.

• production

  More than twenty Beetles were needed to survive this film's stunts and sea scenes.

• production

  One prop Herbie that was dropped into the ocean during production was never recovered.

• herbie

  Paco calls Herbie 'Ocho,' Spanish for eight, because the digits of 53 add up to 8.

• cast

  Fritz Feld and Vito Scotti, both seen in Herbie Rides Again, return in new roles as crew members of the Sun Princess.

• production

  Composer Frank De Vol wrote the score along with two original songs, 'Look at Me' and 'I Found a New Friend.'

• cast

  The cast includes Oscar winner Cloris Leachman and comedy veteran Harvey Korman.

• legacy

  It was the last theatrical Herbie film for a quarter century, until Herbie: Fully Loaded in 2005.

• legacy

  A Beetle used in this film and in Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo sold for $128,700 at Barrett-Jackson in 2018, a record for a VW Beetle.

• Meet Paco A young pickpocket gives Pete and D.J. directions and takes their wallets as payment.
• Stowaway under the hood Paco hides in Herbie's front trunk and is loaded aboard the Sun Princess.
• Costume party chaos Herbie and Paco tear through the ship's masquerade while dodging the crew.
• Overboard Captain Blythe has Herbie dropped into the sea.
• Back from the deep A rusty Herbie surfaces at the Panama Canal and Paco nurses him back to health.
• Herbie in the bullring Hiding from the thieves, Herbie ends up facing a bull and wins.
• Banana camouflage The gang disguises Herbie under a load of bananas to slip into town.
• Five plus three Paco explains that Ocho comes from adding the digits of Herbie's number.

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