Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

Directed by

Hal Needham

Cast

Zhao Yan Guo Zhang, Du Zhi Guo

Genre

comedy film, action film, adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 819 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two bootleggers drive a truckload of Coors beer across state lines while a sheriff chases them. The runaway bride of the sheriff's son joins the drivers for the ride.

lightheartedfast-pacedplayfulfunchaoticwhimsicalnostalgicenergetic

What happens

Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 American action comedy road film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry. The film marks the directorial debut of stuntman Hal Needham. The film follows Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds) and Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed), two truck-driving bootleggers attempting to illegally transport 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana to Atlanta. During their run, they are pursued by Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason), of Montague County, Texas, after his son's runaway bride Carrie (Field) joins The Bandit and Snowman in their rum-run. Smokey and the Bandit was a box office success following initial screenings at drive-in theaters across the Southern United States that prompted Universal to reopen the film nationwide, grossing $127 million ($512 million in 2024) against a $4.3 million ($17.3 million in 2024) budget, becoming the second-highest-grossing domestic film of 1977 in the United States, behind Star Wars. The film became the first installment in the Smokey and the Bandit franchise and the first film of the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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