Jackie Gleason ( Soldier in the Rain, The Honeymooners) … Sheriff Buford T.Laura Lizer Sommers … Little Beaver (as Laura Lizer).Paul Williams ( The Muppet Movie, Battle for the Planet of the Apes) … Little Enos.Burt Reynolds ( The Longest Yard) … Bandit.Put all that together, and Smokey is, at the very least (and unlike its sequels), a simple and original pleasure. But he also has a distinctive feeling for relationships, and he’s good with a joke. New to the job as film boss, Needham brings a silly but energized sensibility to the production and an action man’s need to see things moving. Directed by career stuntman Hal Needham, Smokey and the Bandit is just a goofy chase starring a bunch of Reynolds’s Hollywood cronies. But it’s not bad as a dumb redneck comedy at all. It’s easy to assume this is just another dumb redneck comedy from Burt Reynolds’s years of underachievement. Editorial review of Smokey and The Bandit courtesy of Academy Award Nominations: Best Film Editing. Charismatic performances by Reynolds and Gleason made this a huge box office draw. The stakes get higher and the car chases more frenzied in this hysterical romp through the American highways. Justice ( Jackie Gleason as the maniac “Smokey” of the title). By Kevin Burwick Burt Reynolds, Smokey and the Bandit and Boogie Nights Icon. As they push toward Atlanta, the two have to evade Fields’ vengeful father-in-law, Texas Sheriff Buford T. Iconic actor Burt Reynolds passed away today at the age of 82 in Florida after suffering cardiac arrest. Hilarious mayhem ensues, however, when the Bandit falls for a runaway bride (Sally Field). If he can deliver the goods from Texarcana to Atlanta within forty-eight hours, he’ll be $80,000 richer. The Bandit’s has taken on his craziest haul yet: a trailer full of Coors beer. This is, of course, 'Smokey and the Bandit,' the Burt Reynolds comedy about two truckers, Cledus 'Snowman' Snow and Bo 'Bandit' Darville, who make a bet that they can smuggle 400 cases of Coors beer from Arkansas to Georgia in 28 hours a feat that will require a lot of illegal driving in addition to the smuggling. Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed in Smokey and the Banditīurt Reynolds stars as the Bandit in this seminal portrayal of rough-ridin’, beer-swillin’, sheriff-dodgin’, trouble-chasin’ truckers.
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