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American Graffiti Montage

KIP's AMERICAN GRAFFITI BLOG is a tribute to the 1973 film classic, AMERICAN GRAFFITI with pictures, personal interviews and other articles.

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58 Edsel in American Graffiti Movie.

Ea O Ka Aina: How Long May You Run?

Steve Bolander & Terry 'The Toad' Fields (Ron Howard & Charles Martin Smith) "American Graffiti" (1973) (11/17/11)

Puppet Master (1989)

Inspired by similar restaurants serving motorists in Los Angeles, Mel Weiss and Harold Dobbs founded Mel’s Drive-In restaurants in 1947 in San Francisco, California. Night and day, hordes of patrons that fancied dining-in-your-car came early and often. It didn’t take...

American Graffiti (1973)

On the set of "American Graffiti", 1973. L to R: Jana Bellan, co-writer/director George Lucas. After the box-office disappointment of "THX-1138" (1971), Lucas focused on stories from his days growing up in Modesto, CA. No studio wanted to take a chance except Universal on the strict condition it was shot for a low budget. It cost $775,000 to produce, earned over $200 million - making it one of the most profitable movies of all time - and gave Lucas the clout to create "Star Wars".

Amazon.com: American Graffiti [Blu-ray] : Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Wolfman Jack, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Suzanne Somers, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck, Marcia Lucas, Verna Fields: Movies & TV