name of the car on smokey and the bandit movies

It’s more than a one-person job this, as it involves a drive of some 1800 miles in under 30 hours. Thus, the Bandit is recruited to take the job on, trousering $80,000 for his efforts. The film establishes quickly that running a truck load of Coors over county lines will get you arrested. The basic premise of Smokey And The Bandit follows Burt Reynolds’ Bo ‘Bandit’ Darville, a good, old fashioned 70s anti-hero of sorts.

Their tactical battle is as interesting as the execution of it too. He and Reynolds’ Bandit go toe-to-toe for much of the film – save for a quick bite to eat at a roadside cafe – and whilst Needham deserves credit for staging some excellent driving sequences, the casting of Gleason is pivotal to what makes Smokey And The Bandit such a hoot. Notwithstanding Sally Field, who makes getting out of a wedding dress while sat in the passenger seat of a car look as tricky as it probably is, Reynolds gets top billing.īut the film is stolen from beneath the last vestiges of his fine lip foliage by Jackie Gleason, gleefully announcing himself at regular intervals as Sheriff Buford T Justice of Portague County. Burt Reynolds must have though that he and his ever-impressive facial hair were the star attractions of Smokey And The Bandit when they signed on the dotted line.

Name of the car on smokey and the bandit movies