1977 burt reynolds smokey and the bandit

#1977 BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT MOVIE#
#1977 BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT DRIVER#
#1977 BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT SERIES#

SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, a Rastar Production produced by Mort Engelberg directed by Hal Needham a screenplay by James Lee Barrett, Charles Shyer and Alan Mandel director of photography, Bobby Byrne music by Bill Justis and Jerry Read. Despite its regional settings and characters, 'Smokey and the Bandit' abounds with scatology, profanity and obscenity neither uncommon to the streets of New York nor unknown to most of its inhabitants from the age of 2 onward, or unspoken by most of them at one time or another.

#1977 BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT MOVIE#

And they don't do anything that hasn't been seen before.The movie carries a PG ('Parental Guidance Suggested') rating. And as the pursuer, may I say you're the. You must be part coon dog, 'cause I've been chased by the best of them, and son, you make 'em look like they're all runnin' in slow motion. Gleason doing his burns and investing the film with a certain raunchy humor, the rest is up to the vehicles. Bandit : Before I tell you where I am, Sheriff, there's just one thing I wanna say.

Justice (Jackie Gleason), who is accompanied by the bridegroom-to-be, his hulking nincompoop of a son (Mike Henry).With Mr. Bandit commandeers his friend Cledus (Jerry Reed) to drive his rig while he takes the wheel of the Trans Am to act as the blocker, or diversionary force, when Smokey-the law-turns up.All proceeds smoothly until the homebound trip, when Bandit picks up a runaway bride-to-be (Sally Field), touching off interstate pursuit by her prospective father-in-law, an outraged Texas sheriff named Buford T.

#1977 BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT DRIVER#

Reynolds, playing Bandit, a driver of legendary skill, takes on an $80,000 bet that requires him to race 1,800 miles from Georgia to Texas and back in a span of 28 hours, returning with the aforementioned beer. radios to let everyone know that while 'Smokey and the Bandit' may not be a very original motor-mayhem movie, it is at least a new one.Mr. It is also for moviegoers likely to use one hand to pound arm rests with sheer zest of a race against time involving 400 cases of Coors beer and the other hand to smite thighs with glee at what happens when a couple of good old boys and a passel of pursuing redneck sheriffs and state troopers match alleged wits.And just in the event that there is somebody out there incapable of recognizing the difference between a 6.6 liter Trans Am and a Hudson Terraplane or a new Peterbilt rig and a decrepit Reo truck, there is sufficient use of C.B.

This is a movie for audiences capable of slavering over a Pontiac Trans Am, 18-wheel tractor-trailer rigs, dismembered police cruisers and motorcycles.

#1977 BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT SERIES#

WHENEVER the weather starts to turn warm and Americans begin to take to the roads and drive-ins again, the Hollywood assembly line disgorges another series of movies that employ cars as stars.In the case of the latest example, 'Smokey and the Bandit,' which opened yesterday at the Radio City Music Hall, the advertising and publicity would have it that the principal performers are Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed.But that is misleading.

1977 burt reynolds smokey and the bandit