Smokey and The Bandit (1977)
Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review
Shat on Entertainment
4.5 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Shat The Movies has brought us so many dynamic pairings: Riggs and Murtaugh, Goose and Maverick, Dick Ebert and Gene Lyons. It's only fair that we reach back to 1977 for the quickest duo to deliver Coors beer from Texarkana to Atlanta: Snowman and The Bandit.
"Smokey and The Bandit" triggered an explosion in trucker romanticism, CB radio fetishism and Pontiac Firebird Trans Am sales. Stuntman Hal Needham's directorial debut also gave audiences a fresh look at Jackie Gleason and convinced America (but not Gene) that Sally Field could be hot.
It had everything you could ask for in a bootlegger movie: Jerry Reed songs that literally tell you what's happening on screen, '70s style, sexy cars, Burt Reynolds and inexplicable pit stops. But does "Smokey and The Bandit" hold up as a comedy with a pinch of romance? You might be surprised.
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| 0:27.6 | But it was sweet when they killed Alice. |
| 0:30.6 | And with a little help from Alice, John McClane kicked out. |
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| 0:38.7 | With the movies we love and we were growing up really that good. |
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| 0:45.0 | Can you still remember spending your Friday night searching for the perfect movie |
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