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| Dorf Goes Auto Racing | |
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| Directed by | Barry Landon |
| Written by | Tim Conway |
| Starring | Tim Conway Eddie Deezen |
| Distributed by | J2 Communications |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
| Language | English |
Dorf Goes Auto Racing is a 1990 comedy short film starring Tim Conway, Eddie Deezen and Tim Conway Jr.
World-famous European race car driver, Duessel Dorf (a pun on the German city of a similar name), comes to America to take on his greatest challenge-stock car racing at Sears Point Raceway, where the racers of NASCAR react with disgust at his arrival. With a thoroughly incompetent pit crew, Dorf will have to rely on his knack for inadvertently creating chaos to win the race.
This was the last appearance in the series for Boom-Boom LaRue (Michele Smith); she had appeared in all four films to date.
An unfortunate plot line involves a beautiful love interest named Gwendolyn.
“There’s a little bit of Dorf in all of us. But there’s a little more in Gwendolyn.”
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