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Returning to the pile of stuff I've seen in the past months, but not polled, we get to ... Corvette Summer!

Teenage gearhead cares about nothing but cars, and spends most of his senior year leading his shop class in the restoration of Corvette Stingray whose husk they rescue from the scrap yard just as it's about to be compressed.

By the time it's finished, it's so accessorized and tricked out as to qualify for one-of-a-kind status, so of course it gets boosted. While the rest of the class shrugs their shoulders and goes back to doing high school stuff, our hero resolves to find and reclaim his baby, and his adventure takes him on hitch-hiking journey to Vegas where he ends up in the crosshairs of bad dudes and crazy broads.

Saw this at a drive-in deep in the swamps of Jersey a long time ago in a universe far, far away.

Since my priorities that evening were 1) making out and 2) drinking, little of the movie was actually seen. The experience got 5 stars, however.

I believe this was the film he made BEFORE that little space flick, and it was released afterwards to capitalize on his sudden name recognition.

First post-Star Wars appearance:

• Mark Hamill: Corvette Summer
• Carrie Fisher: Come Back, Little Sheba (TV)
• Harrison Ford: Heroes
• Alec Guinness: Raise the Titanic
• James Earl Jones: Exorcist II: The Heretic
• Peter Cushing: Shock Waves
• Anthony Daniels: The Lord of the Rings (voice—1978)
• Kenny Baker: Wombling Free
• Peter Mayhew: Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

That's a lot of agents asleep at the stick. I'm tempted to give Mayhew the win here.