Smokey and the Bandit

Smokey and the Bandit was a 1977 movie starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry. It would inspire several other trucking films including two sequels, Smokey and the Bandit II, and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3. Also, a television movie was loosely based on the film called Bandit. The 3 movies introduced three generations of the Pontiac Trans Am (unlike the television movie version which the other Bandit drives the Dodge Stealth R/T Twin Turbo). The film was the second highest grossing film of 1977, beaten only by Star Wars.

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Burt Reynolds - Sally Field - Jackie Gleason - Jerry Reed - Paul Williams - Mike Henry - Smokey and the Bandit II - Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 - Bandit - Pontiac Trans Am - Dodge - Star Wars

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Most of the movie centers around Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed) and Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds) taking a shipment of Coors beer from Texarkana, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia (At the time Coors wasn't available in the eastern US, it was illegal to ship it east of Texas). They were promised $80,000 from Big and Little Enis Burdett if they could make the run in 28 hours. Along the way, Bandit picks up Carrie "Frog" (Field), and finds himself being pursued by Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason). Carrie had run away from her wedding to Justice's son, Junior, (Henry) and so the plot gets going when Buford is told Frog got into a Trans-Am.

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Coors - Texarkana, Texas - Atlanta, Georgia

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