Smokey and the Bandit

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🎙️ EPISODE 532: 08.15.22 I don't got much to say about this one. Only watched about a 1/3 of it. This is a big ole **NOT FOR ME**, folks. Sometimes, that's how it goes. If you like the stupid Burt Reynolds trucker movie, god bless your heart. Here is a sub-genre that might as well have been genetically engineered in a lab to annoy me. What with all the cars peeling out, trucker songs and CB radios... no thank you.

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Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 American road action comedy film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams and Mike Henry. The directorial debut of stuntman Hal Needham, the film follows Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds) and Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed), two bootleggers attempting to illegally transport 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana to Atlanta. While the Snowman drives the truck carrying the beer, the Bandit drives a Pontiac Trans Am to distract law enforcement (called blocking) and keep the attention off the Snowman. During their run, they are pursued by Texas county sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason). Smokey and the Bandit was the second highest-grossing domestic film of 1977. Sally Field and Burt Reynolds began a relationship after meeting on set. It was released on May 19, 1977 .