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Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

PG | | Action, Comedy | 27 May 1977 (USA)
The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.

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Alfie Wise ...
Patrolman - Traffic Jam
George Reynolds ...
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Linda McClure ...
Susie Ewing ...
Hot Pants (as Susan McIver)
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Little Beaver (as Laura Lizer)
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Branford's Deputy
Lamar Jackson ...
Sugar Bear
Ronnie Gay ...
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Storyline

Bandit and Cledus are two truck-driving southerners who accept a dare from big-shots Big and Little Enos to pick up a truckload of beer from Texas and return it to them within a specified amount of time. Picking it up is simple enough, but as they are leaving Texas, Bandit unwittingly picks up Carrie, a hitchhiking bride-to-be who just left her groom, Junior, at the altar. Junior, however, is the son of Sheriff Buford T. Justice. And when Buford and Junior discover what has happened, they go on a "high-speed pursuit" across the Southeast to catch the bandit. Written by <jgp3553@excite.com>

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Meet Bo Darville, aka, "The Bandit." Smokies (Cops) hate him. Guys dig him. And even girls can't get enough of him! See more »

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Action | Comedy

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27 May 1977 (USA)  »

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Box Office

Budget:

$4,300,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$126,737,428 (USA)
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Trivia

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Skid marks near the wedding car are gone when the truck goes by. See more »

Quotes

Buford T. Justice: How do officer. My name's...
Patrolman - Traffic Jam: I don't care if your name is Broderick Crawford...
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Soundtracks

West Bound And Down
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Written by Dick Feller and Jerry Reed
Sung by Jerry Reed
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Back when Burt was god
9 January 2007 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

This movie,as far as I know,never won any special honours.It perhaps is not listed as one of the top 1,000,000 movies of all time.but I (and I am not ashamed to admit this),love this movie.Perhaps it is the charm exuded by Burt Reynolds. Perhaps it is the beautiful Sally Field(she will forever remind me of the little girl who lived next door but one who always managed to elude me)Perhaps it is the comic genius of Jackie Gleason. This is the absolute "king" of redneck comedy movies(and I use the term "redneck" with the utmost affection).I am a fan of great films,but I have my guilty pleasure movies as anyone has. This one tops my list of those.Love it!

Your enjoyment of the film depends on your first viewing experience. If like myself, you were a young boy growing up in the mid-eighties, you will have no doubt lived for the endless thrills, spills, car crashes, second-rate jokes and Big Burt as the Bandit, and its two sequels. It's easy to laugh at now, but there is a perverse pleasure in seeing bell-bottoms, grown men with CB radios and muscles cars the size of small houses, the likes of which most people won't have seen since 1982.

And as a side note only Star Wars grossed more than Smokey and the Bandit in 1977


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