American Graffiti (1973 George Lucas & co-scr)

A nostalgic piece from Lucas who recalled the growing-up small town fifties feeling. Shot in 28 days he had little time to direct the actors - luckily they are fine - 'Ronny' Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips (the young one) and Deby Celiz (Ron's girlfriend).

It looks and sounds great - Haskell Wexler contributed to the look, shot by Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage - Walter Murch dishes up a treat of sound montage (though I missed the stereo shriek this time!) Verna Fields (and Marcia and George Lucas) cut it.

It has some nice ironies and is touching and well-observed.

With Wolfman Jack, Bo Hopkins, Beau Gentry, Manuel Padilla Jr (who Q correctly identified as Jai from the Tarzan TV series), Harrison Ford.