When Paula tells him that her dream is to marry Sam, he calls it a "damn lousy dream". Bigby calls Paula on the car phone, trying to get her to come back. Sam wants to head to Reno to marry instead, but Paula is set on a Vegas wedding. As Ace and Sparky catch up to them, they turn off the Interstate in an attempt to lose their pursuers in the desert. Upon hearing it, Curly announces that he will root for them. Vivian also continues the chase, prompting the officer to commandeer a bus.Īfter hearing a radio listener call-in saying Sam ought to be shot, Paula calls the station from the car phone and tells her side of the story. She ends up crashing into a tree and the officer attempts to arrest her, and her blurting out trying to save her son is overheard by a nearby preacher (Hoke Howell), who steals the police car to collect the reward money. As she runs a red light, she attracts the attention of Officer Norman Tad (James Ritz), who chases after her. Vivian also calls TenQ, offering $25,000 for the safe return of her son.
Several people, hearing it on the radio, including two mechanics Ace (Ron Howard's younger brother, Clint Howard) and Sparky (Pete Isacksen) in an antique Bugatti Type 35, set off after Paula and Sam. Brown ( Don Steele), offering $25,000 to whoever can catch her. Before stealing another car, he calls the TenQ radio station to DJ Curly Q. His mother Vivian ( Marion Ross), after being informed of it by the police, decides to go after him herself before the police could arrest him.Ĭollins catches up with Paula and Sam on the Interstate, but ends up crashing the car he stole. After crashing it, he steals another car from a nearby dealership to continue the chase. Enraged, Collins smashes the phone and takes off in his car. Priscilla gets a call from Collins, who is currently in a stable playing polo, and tells him Paula ran off. Bigby calls his associate Ned Slinker (played by Ron Howard's real-life father Rance), asking him to bring back Paula and the Rolls-Royce, and to have Sam incarcerated, without involvement of police and news media. Paula goes to her room and escapes through the window, stealing her parents' Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud and hitting the road with Sam, beginning a wild explosive car chase and race towards Las Vegas.
Bigby threatens to disinherit her and take away her sports car (that she had bought with her own money) if she disobeys him.
However, Paula dismisses Collins as a "flake", and tells her parents that she won't marry him and will elope with Sam to Las Vegas. Bigby tells Paula that he is running for governor and wants her to cooperate. Bigby yells at Sam to leave, and while he tries to defend himself, Paula tells him to go wait for her outside. Paula is really in love with classmate Sam Freeman ( Ron Howard), an environmental research major, however, her father dismisses him as a "fortune hunter", which they dispute.
In Los Angeles, Paula Powers' ( Nancy Morgan) wealthy parents, Bigby ( Barry Cahill) and Priscilla Powers ( Elizabeth Rogers), want her to marry Collins Hedgeworth ( Paul Linke), whom they refer to as her fiance, and also hails from a wealthy family.
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