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Return to Macon County

1975-07-23 · 90 min · ★ 6.6

Drama

In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.

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Directors
Richard Compton
Production companies
American International Pictures
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Nick NolteNick NolteBo Hollinger
Don JohnsonDon JohnsonHarley McKay
Robin MattsonRobin MattsonJunell
Robert ViharoRobert ViharoSergeant Bob Wittaker
Matt GreenePete
Devon EricsonDevon EricsonBetty
Philip CrewsLarry
Walt GuthrieBig Man in Coffee Shop
Mary Ann HearnPat
Sam KilmanCook
Bill MosesSheriff Jackson
Pat O'ConnorOfficer Harris
Eugene DanielsTom
Ron PratherRon PratherSteve
Laura SayerLibby
Jeanne RogersHitchhiker
Maurice HuntMotel Owner (uncredited)

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