In 1977, Coors was banned east of the Mississippi. Field wrote her own script as she was about to split up with Reynolds in real life and Burt wanted to know how she really felt about him. In Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again Sally Field’s character Carrie/Frog announces the end of her relationship with the Bandit. Field was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role. Reynolds and Sally Field began dating during filming and would star in 4 films together as boyfriend /girlfriend. It went on to make over $300m – the second highest-grossing film of 1977, second only to Star Wars. At that time, he was the #1 box office star in the world, so Universal Studios bankrolled Smokey and the Bandit for $4.3 million.
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Hal Needham originally planned the film as a low budget B movie with a production cost of $1 million – until his friend Burt Reynolds read the script. I loved watching these films growing up and with Smokey and the Bandit being rated a PG I look forward to spending time over the holidays with my family introducing the next generation to the Bandit.Ī great trilogy for all the family to enjoy time and again. The trailer can still be seen to this day in Season 7 of the Walking Dead! Over and OutĮven though these films are set in the 70s, they are ageing well, maybe the first two films more so than the last.įor car enthusiasts, the vehicles will forever remain icon with the Bandit’s Pontiac Firebird and the Snowman’s truck. Justice is ready to retire when the notorious Enises (Paul Williams and Pat McCormick) challenge both him and The Snowman (Jerry Reed) to make a special delivery from Miami to Texas in 24 hours.
Smokey and the Bandit III: Jackie Gleason, Paul Williams, Jerry Reed and Pat McCormick reprise their original roles, with a special appearance by Burt Reynolds as The Real Bandit. But this time the loot is even bigger – a pregnant elephant.
Justice (Gleason), who is still madly obsessed with apprehending him. Once again, he’s pursued by arch-enemy Sheriff Buford T. Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason team up again as a raucous political race results in the comeback of the wild ways of the Bandit (Reynolds). Smokey and the Bandit: The Bandit (Burt Reynolds) is hired to illegally deliver 400 cases of Coors beer from Texas to Atlanta in 28 hours…without getting stopped So they will instead recreate the jump at Atlanta Motor Speedway Saturday evening.The hard-driving, fast-talking, star-studded Smokey and the Bandit comedies are now together on DVD in Smokey and the Bandit: The Complete Collection – starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed and a pregnant elephant. The leap allowed Reynolds and his passenger, Sally Field, to evade the pursuing law officers, whose patrol cars plunged into the river seconds later.īut organizers decided the river site, now overtaken by weeds, wasn’t feasible for another jump. Participants in the anniversary celebration plan to recreate the “Coors scene” at the spot where it was filmed in Jonesboro this weekend.Ī stunt man driving a Trans Am had also had hoped to recreate the Bandit’s jump across the Flint River west of downtown Jonesboro. That’s where the movie’s main characters picked up the 400 cases of Coors beer they would deliver to Atlanta in 28 hours. The city’s train depot that dates to 1867 appears in the movie, but movie-makers temporarily replaced its Jonesboro sign with one that said “Texarkana” so they could film scenes set in the town on the Texas-Arkansas line. Some of the buildings still stand, as well. Highway 41 and other roads in the area, Clark said. Many of the scenes from Smokey and the Bandit were filmed on Main Street in downtown Jonesboro, nearby U.S.
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Smokey and the Bandit was among the first big-budget movies to be filmed in Georgia, paving the way for more recent films such as “The Hunger Games” movies and TV shows such as AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” “I got a message from someone from Switzerland who is flying over for this event.” “People are coming from all over the U.S.
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