How many smokey and the bandits

Sally Field Carrie as Carrie. Jerry Reed Cledus as Cledus. Mike Henry Junior as Junior. George Reynolds Branford as Branford. Macon McCalman Mr. B as Mr. Linda McClure Waynette as Waynette. Jackie Gleason Sheriff Buford T. Justice of Portague County.

Hal Needham. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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. And when Buford and Junior discover what has happened, they go on a "high-speed pursuit" across the Southeast to catch the bandit. Time to take to the road, for a quiet little drive in the country Did you know Edit.

Trivia Jackie Gleason said the cafe scene with himself and Burt Reynolds was not in the original story, it was Gleason's idea. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. How many Smokey and the Bandit movies are there? By Alex Wiggan. Burt Reynolds passes away How many Cannonball Run movies are there? Revisiting BMX Bandits. How many Magnificent Seven movies are there? Like this: Like Loading Reynolds told Needham that if he could get the money to shoot it, he'd star in it.

The movie star's friends, according to Reynolds in his autobiography , "got down on their knees with tears in their eyes and begged me not to do it. It's really good work …' or something like that, ' And there was no script. There was virtually no script. Since I wasn't a person that had come from the New York stage, and I came from this sort of weird unorthodox background, I wasn't one who stood on principle and said 'Hmm, there seems to be no script here.

And it was a great fun romp, journey, and certainly a good experience. And then it was all improv. Sally Field has said in interviews there was no script for this movie; it was all improvised. Fred, the Bassett Hound dog for Snowman's pet, was personally picked by Burt Reynolds , chiefly because it refused to obey commands.

The street where Bandit and Snowman get the beer from is the same street where the band Lynyrd Skynyrd shot their debut album cover. In Jonesboro, GA where a lot of the film was shot, Snowman's house and the warehouse where the Coors beer is picked up in Texarkana, TX are actually only about a half a mile away from each other.

Sally Field admits that right after she accepted this role she knew it was a mistake and thought it would ruin her career. Luckily she got the Oscar winning Norma Rae right after this. Richard Boone was also considered for the role of Sheriff Buford T. Burt Reynolds wanted someone "a little crazier, a little more dangerous, and a lot funnier" than Richard Boone, so he suggested Gleason. Burt Reynolds recommended Sally Field for the part of Carrie and had to convince her to to do the role because Field thought the script was too slight.

There are regional differences but it is usually made like a Sloppy Joe with ground beef. The Sloppy Joe spices are replaced with taco spices and the recipe might include hot sauce, canned corn and diced tomato. It is usually served on a hamburger bun.

The original actors mostly redubbed their own lines for the television version, except for Jackie Gleason. Actor Henry Corden , who voiced Fred Flintstone after original performer Alan Reed died, was used to replace a considerable amount of Sheriff Justice's dialogue. Forest Service because of their hats. Some states outfit them with what are properly called "campaign hats" with a "Montana crease".

The hat with that type crease is of late 19th century vintage. It came to be called a "Smokey Bear hat" after the U. Forest Service began publishing images posters of their mascot wearing one in Nicknames for other law enforcement officers are, among others, "City Kitty" for a city police officer and "County Mountie" for a county police officer or Sheriff's deputy.

When scenes were filmed in the Trans Am, it was not possible to use a slate to mark the beginning and end of scenes. The actors had to clap their hands instead to mark when a scene started and ended. Several outtakes show this being done. Even though the storyline had bandit as a notorious truck driver, Burt Reynolds character never sits in the cab of any truck during the 'bet'. He 'drives' up to Snowman's house in the early scenes of the film.

At the mark you can see Bandit shifting the Trans-Am. A "kojak with a kodak" is a "smokey bear" with a radar gun for catching speeders. Three The Dukes of Hazzard stars had cameos, in this movie. Nearly two decades later, John Schneider played the sheriff in one of the four television adaptation version Bandit.

There is no "Interstate 82" in the state of Arkansas. However, U. The interstate system we know today was still being built at the time this film was made. In season 7, episode 10 of The Walking Dead, that aired February 19, , Daryl Norman Reedus and Richard Karl Makinen are standing in front of the trailer that the Snowman drove in Smokey and the Bandit , when they are preparing an attack on the Saviors.

Near the end of the movie, one of the two Georgia State Patrol cars that block the entrance to the fairgrounds the Oldsmobile is equipped with an airbag very rare for the s.

The airbags were used in conjunction with a knee blocker on the instrument panel. The airbag did not deploy in that minor collision but did deploy when they purposely wrecked the car years later.

That car is shown in an airbag safety film used in some traffic schools. The job was that Bandit and Snowman had to drive from their location in Georgia to Texarkana, TX, pick up cases of beer, and return within 28 hours. The round trip according to them was miles. They would have to average just under 65 miles per hour for the entire trip to make it. Of course, that doesn't allow time for sleeping, eating, fuel stops, etc.