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Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1975 | Helen Hayes
Box Office Collection 38,229,000 USD
Disney worked closely with Volkswagen to promote the sequel. Every each VW dealer had a Bug on display that was made up to look like Herbie, and 300,000 Herbie posters were distributed to dealers to pass on to their customers. If a customer wanted to turn their new Beetle into a Herbie, they could buy a graphics kit from the VW parts department.
The interior of the building that Herbie drives through was the Garden Court of the Sheraton Palace Hotel. The owners allowed Disney to film the scene of Herbie crossing their large regal dining area only after the Herbie used was rigged to run on battery power (no gas exhaust) and the bottom of the car was drip-proofed. It was filmed at a time of day where there is low traffic at the dining area. The diners in the foreground (in front of Herbie rolling through) were actually blue screened in later.
Actor Keenan Wynn reprised his role of the villainous, inept, and extremely short-tempered, "Alonzo Hawk" from both The Absent Minded Professor (1961) and its sequel Son of Flubber (1963) making Herbie Rides Again the only picture outside "The Absent-Minded Professor" films to feature his character role. It is noteworthy that his name has changed from "Alonzo P. Hawk" to "Alonzo A. Hawk."
Alonzo's Herbie nightmare included a scene in an operating room being "treated" by Volkswagons with a Red Cross on the hood. The scene was deleted from the movie, but included in the Viewmaster Reel set.
According to the filmmakers on the DVD documentary for The Love Bug (1968), Herbie's #53 comes from star baseball pitcher Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
"Alonzo Hawk: [speaking to his secretary about a group of men in his office] Who're these clowns? Secretary: They're your new lawyers, Mr. Hawk. You fired the others yesterday. Alonzo Hawk: Okay, fellas, now I want to tear down the Steinmetz firehouse. Okay? Lawyer-Second Team: Just a moment, Mr. Hawk. Do you have the necessary permit? Alonzo Hawk: [suddenly becomes angry] Of course I don't have a permit! I don't even own the land yet! Lawyer-Second Team: Sorry, Mr. Hawk. Such an action would only jeopardize your entire legal standing of your new building. We can't permit... Alonzo Hawk: [shouts angrily] Will you get outta here? I didn't hire you to tell me what I can't do, I hired you to tell me how I could do it! GOOOOOO! [lawyers run out of the office]"
"Secretary: I'm sorry, Mr. Hawk. I called the motel but they said your nephew checked out. Alonzo Hawk: [angrily] What do you mean he's checked out? When? Where? Who told him he could check out? How dare he disappear when he knows I'm worried sick? I'll tear his chicken-livered gizzard to pieces! I'll stomp him silly! I'll take this letter knife, and I'll stab that kid right in his ungrateful breastbone! You know me Millicent, normally I'm a kindly, fun-loving fellow! But when I get crossed... [weakly, slumping down at desk] Alonzo Hawk: I go bananas."
