@ True, I should've said "had he been in shape"! See pictures from the movie "Stay Away Joe" to get an idea of how he might 've looked in the Reynolds role!
Over Jason Robards in "Julia" (1977)?...As much as I love him and that movie, I think I agree. Gleason's performance is wonderful and really makes this movie work. Comedy isn't as easy as people think. (He also should have won as Minnesota Fats in "The Hustler.")
To be fair, when he said that, Thornton was filming Sling Blade and while not in character, he was still in the mind-set of Karl Childers, a brain-damaged and developmentally disadvantaged/intellectually-stunted son of the Deep South. Exactly the type who would think Smoky and the Bandit was a watchable let alone good movie.
Mine too. Here’s to all the bad ass dads who love smoky and the bandit.. he would always sing “ we got a long way to go and a short time to get there, we gonna do what they say can’t be done”.. I bet our pops are hanging out with butch cassidy and Wyatt Earp having whiskey in the saloon. ❤❤❤❤❤ rip bad ass dads.
@@michaelrohrer2104 here’s to all the dads and step dads that actually gave a shit…. We lost some good ones And now we are the next generation of good ones. Let’s give em hell boys.
Years ago, I took my girlfriend to a seafood restaurant. She asked for hush puppies with her meal. I start chuckling. She asked what was so funny. I said, "we don't got time for that crap!" She laughed right along with me 😂😂
@@joelellis7035 I dated a girl who could quote the Naked Gun. We would watch it and howl with laughter when Leslie Nielson thought his own car was trying to run him over. Ah, what a broad!
The Diablo sandwich is a spicy pulled pork sandwich that's often served on a hamburger bun with hot sauce. It was invented in the late 1960s in a Southern restaurant near Atlanta, Georgia. The sandwich became well-known after Jackie Gleason ordered one in the 1977 movie Smokey and the Bandit
I had one in eastern Tennessee last year. It’s the only way I’ll have a pulled pork sandwhich, just as you said; but I never knew there was specific name for it, I’ve alwys had them like that, but that one in TN last year was the best yet.
I remember riding in the front of a car on a trip once, and a friend started watching Smokey and the Bandit on his tablet in the back seat. I couldn't even see the screen, and I was crying with laughter just listening to the audio. Gleason was perfection in the role.
Still playing in the dollar theatre in 1978. Great year for movies. Saw Star Wars, Smokey and the Bandit, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Every Which Way but Loose and Good Guys Wear Black and probably several that I can't remember. I was eight and my sister was six. We would got to the movies every week in the summer, sometimes more. I have not stepped into a movie theatre in like ten years.
Good to know because it's the only time in the entire film that Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason share the screen face to face, making it arguably the most important scene in the movie.
As a kid growing up, one of my all time favorite movies, I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it. Mr. Gleason and Mr. Reynolds, thank you for making my youth that much better.
Trivia - if it weren't for 'Star Wars', 'Smokey & the Bandit' would have been the #1 grossing movie of 1977. It beat out 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', and 'Saturday Night Fever'.
My grandfather looked alot like Jackie in this movie...same size too....and when you hear him yelling right before he walks in...that was my grandad too. 🤣🤣
If you go to the local Burger King around here, and ask for two chocolate chip cookies ($1.20) and a Medium beverage upcharge ($0.40), you might get close. If that upcharge request works, you might make out like a bandit. If they ask if you want a hamburger, say nine.
Unforgetable for me. I was 9 years old and this was the first time I was ever allowed to go see a movie in the theater. Yes, back then, no one cared it was PG, your a baby faced kid, and had no adult with you.!☺️ $2.25 it was to get a ticket! The movie ticket, a giant popcorn and soda, and milk duds to boot! When it was over you still had change left from a 5$ bill! One of my all time favorite comedy action movies. I'm still a die hard fan of Jackie Gleason. I love and own the classic collection of the groundbreaking tv comic sitcom, "The Honeymooners"! Awww, those were the days of True Old School America! BRING THEM BACK PLEASE!👌👍
The Great One(s). Rip to the Bandit crew who have passed. Burt, Jerry, Jackie, and Fred the dog. Frog is still with us. (Edited because I missed one, or two). Mike Henry, who played Junior. One of my favorite exchanges in the Laurel and Hardy pair as follows: " Junior?, Yes Daddy, Why aren't there any bullets in your gun??, It makes it too heavy, Daddy". I know it's coming, but still a good laugh. Rip Mike Henry.
After this movie, we all had CB radios. The best part was picking your handle. We put a base station in the house and had them in every vehicle, it was cell phones before we had any idea what a cell phone was.
@@JohnPaul-pb4eu Firebird and Camaro were Sisters! Firebird Trans AM was the Faster one however as it got the 190 Horse Olds Rocket 403 (IIRC the Cars used for this film had the Olds 403 as the Hood Scoops are marked "6.6 Litre" while W72 was marked "T/A 6.6" , the modern Dub also clearly has the sound of an Olds 403, the Trad Dub was actually an SD455 Sound (taken, again IIRC, from the Custom Tri-Chevy used in Two Lane Blacktop), an Engine which the Firebird lost after '74) and the W72 (Under-Rated at 220 Horse, with the Manual Cam it was closer to 300! it is how a W72 Manual '77 could Smoke even the old Ram Air's!) while the Camaro topped out with the 175 Horse "Mouse" 350. Still Sisters however.
@ Still Sisters, same "F Body" Chassis with the same Locating Points, same Y99 Radial Tuned Suspension System, 70% the Same Parts shared throughout both Cars, Same Borg Warner Super T-10 (Manual) or GM THM200C (Automatic) Gearbox Options, heck, you could even get the Camaro's "Mouse" 350 in the "Esprit" Luxury Firebird (no the "Rockford Files" actually did not use a Firebird Esprit, the Cars used were actually Firebird Formula (with Olds Rocket 403, THM200C (as although James Garner himself was a fully Qualified, Formula One! Rated Driver and was fully Manual Rated, in Lore his Character, Jim Rockford, simply just preferred an Automatic so the Stunt Cars were Automatics!) and Y99 ('77) /WS6 ('78) Handling Pack) models that had been Visually Downgraded to Esprit Spec as you couldn't get the Rocket 403 and WS6 on the Esprit, but they needed both for the Stunt Work!) due to how many parts were shared due to GM cost Cutting! They were Sister Cars within the GM Family! Both Pontiac and Chevrolet were Wholly Owned by GM! They were Sister Cars, it is just the Firebird was the out and out Performance Model as Pontiac sold on a Performance Image (and T/A lived up to that alright! With a '77 Spec Manual Cam W72, Super T-10, no A\C, and Y99, T/A would Smoke even "Mr 'Vette" on the 1\4 Mile! In those Days before "Corvette King Performance" (1982 -Now) clipped the "Screamin' Chicken's" Wings) while Camaro was more of a Practical Cruiser more in line with Chevrolet's Practical "Family Friendly" Image. However in terms of Chassis, the "F body", Camaro and Firebid were and are (as the modern "Trans Am Worldwide" Boids are still Camaro "F Body" Based!) Sisters as they use the same Chassis!
I was 13 and watched that movie with my best friend. I remember cracking up when Jackie Gleason came out of the bathroom trailing the toilet paper. He was so funny
I have never seen Smokey and the Bandit. I randomly stumbled across this clip, and as a result, I've put the movie near the top of my list to watch soon.
If I recall correctly, this is the role that finally got her out of kid & teenager roles. She proved here that, she may be very short, but she can play an adult.
Make it fast I’m in a GODDAMN hurry lmao 😂😂 1:29 sheriff says want anything boy junior said hushpuppies daddy we have no time for that bullshit 😂😂 1:36
That whole era late seventies to early eighties saw the boom of anything with a southern or Texas theme because many Americans who moved north to chase jobs post WW two were relocating back to take advantage of the oil boom, lower cost of living, and milder winter. Dukes would certainly qualify, as would Urban Cowboy, the TV show Dallas, and others.
@kencummings953 Urban Cowboy And Dallas took place in Texas, which is not a Southern state. Urban cowboy is about fake Cowboys. And and Dallas is about oil millionaires or billionaires. I don't see the connection there.
@@oldcountryboy I mentioned Texas in my post. Anything having to do with Texas was trendy at that time. There was even a soap opera named "Texas" for a brief period in the early 1980's. I guess if you want to be technical Texas is a southwestern state but as a lifelong midwesterner it's southern for me.
@@stevencoates3382 Yep- gallon of gas was .60 cents New house around $80k New Car $6995 Interest rates went thru the roof around 1979 thru the 80s.... A large Pizza delivered to your house about $7 bucks Good times back then- People were different than today
Their real life romance was blooming here Just three short years later the opposite occurred. Burt and Sally were going through a divorce during filming of the sequel and the on screen tension between them was real. The portrayal of Burt early in the movie as a bloated alcoholic ego''d out has been was accurate of his real life as well.
@@kencummings953 Yeah, it brought the sequel way down that Burt and Sally were breaking up (they never married), but the screenwriters could have written a decent movie for them. instead they spent 20 minutes on a subplot that would take a whole other movie to resolve, and then Pontiac put him in the 301 Turbo T/A, which is also a pretty sad echo of a great car. You can see it can't even do a decent burnout from a dead stop. Meanwhile, wasn't there an idea for a sequel at the end of the first movie, the clam chowder run, or whatever? Years went by and SB-II is a good argument for limiting most sequels to 30 minutes. There's 30 great minutes in SB-II. But it's never going to be a serious movie about alcoholism, so all of that is a waste. There's just a lot of waiting around for the action and laughs. And some overlooked setups. This pregnant elephant is on its way to a Republican convention. Might as well make an abortion joke - Conn and the Burdettes are already at war, and we are so far into bad taste it's no time to pull out. But the good 30 minutes are in there.
Ahhhhh....... I saw this in the Drive-in in 1977. As a 7-year old, I was most likely playing on the swings right in front of the screen while my mom and dad were 100 yards away in the car drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. Me, along with the other 30 kids on the playground, were trusted to just find our way back to the car when we were done. Which we did. What a magical era!!
I remember doing that in the early 80s around the time drive-ins were starting to go away in my area. On the way to the drive-in I noticed that a kid looking out of the back of the car in front of us was a classmate. Soon as we got to the drive-in all the kids lined up and held out our arms while one of the moms sprayed us with bug spray then we were off to the playground. I don't remember what the movie was. It was kind of amazing how kids would just run off and play together like it had already been universally agreed upon as to what the plan was. "Swing set located." "Objective acquired."
Such places still exist! There’s one by me that has a swingset / playground close by to the main screen. We park at the end by the swingset / playground, get to watch a movie and do adult stuff while the kids play.
I think Burt always felt roles like these were okay but he didn't like being type-cast, much like Sean Connery felt doing the Bond films. Both could really do dramatic roles and nail them. Both of them really took their craft seriously.
Burt signed on for this movie because he was close friends with director and stunt coordinator Hal Needham (who may have co-wrote the screenplay as well) it was originally supposed to be a B level movie with Jerry Reed playing the Bandit.
@ So then you probably got $1 a week as an allowance - just enough to get a comic book and a candy bar. Ground beef was about $1.50 a pound, so for the same price as those two burgers, you mom could make a meatloaf and feed the entire family at home and have leftovers for tomorrow's sandwiches.
Jackie Gleason owned that role and stole every scene he was in. His comic timing and physical humor are amazing.
Yep. Just like Val Kilmer's Doc Holiday character in Tombstone made that movie, Gleason's Sheriff Buford T. Justice made this movie!
Presley would've been better suited in Reynolds's role imho!
@psychedelicelvis-777 He was near death at that point. He died the same year this came out.
@ True, I should've said "had he been in shape"! See pictures from the movie "Stay Away Joe" to get an idea of how he might 've looked in the Reynolds role!
Basically Jackie Gleason had no scripted lines. They just gave him the general flow of the scene and he winged it.
2 cheeseburgers and an ice tea. Buck and a half.
I can remember 10 for a buck burgers.
First thing I thought of when I heard it, my have times changed.
Never see that price in 2025
@ Amen brother.
Arbys was 5 bucks for 5 roast beef sandwiches in 98. Taco bell used to be damn near free. Prices have grown way faster than wages.
Jackie Gleason should have won an Academy award for this part😎
BURRRRPPPPPP waddaowe?
ABSOLUTELY! I second that. 👍
100%
Over Jason Robards in "Julia" (1977)?...As much as I love him and that movie, I think I agree. Gleason's performance is wonderful and really makes this movie work. Comedy isn't as easy as people think. (He also should have won as Minnesota Fats in "The Hustler.")
He absolutely should have.
Also, imho, there's no point in watching the/a censored version. Without Gleason's cussing, it's just not as funny
This scene was magic & art in motion, RIP to Jackie Gleason & Burt Reynolds
Where's the can I gotta take a squirt
The disdain in Jackie Gleason’s voice when Burt Reynolds asked him if someone was chasing him. It’s just perfect.
Burt and Sally
‘‘Nobody is chasing me boy”
“Nice ass”. Haha.
LOL....
Cleaning him with his drink 😂
I never noticed that. Just makes the scene even better😆
@jeffsnider6976 me neither 😂
A Dr pepper at that, which is just staining it more. 😂 I think that's the reason Buford shoved his hand away bc it was making it worse.
Much obliged….
When he met Burt Reynolds, Billy Bob Thornton said "Sir, where I come from 'Smokey and the Bandit' is considered a documentary."
@@robertbeery1084 that's kind of how we felt in our time and place.
Much like I tell people that King of the Hill is a animated documentary of life in Texas suburbs. :D
To be fair, when he said that, Thornton was filming Sling Blade and while not in character, he was still in the mind-set of Karl Childers, a brain-damaged and developmentally disadvantaged/intellectually-stunted son of the Deep South. Exactly the type who would think Smoky and the Bandit was a watchable let alone good movie.
@@ShmuckOnWheelsYou should see your doctor about that.
@@morriganify1I tell ya Hwhat.
Jackie Gleason looks like he's just having the time of his life all through this movie
exactly. he ad-libbed a LOT during filming...
Really? I think he looks like he's about to have a literal stroke in every scene -- which is what makes him hilarious and wonderful in this role.
He got at least one free Diablo sandwich.
He was made for this role!
You got that right boy!
Dad's favorite movie. My brother and I watch it every year on his birthday. Know every line by heart.
My Dad loved it too. ❤
It's one of those movies, like Trains planes and automobiles or Uncle Buck, never gets old.
Mine too. Here’s to all the bad ass dads who love smoky and the bandit.. he would always sing “ we got a long way to go and a short time to get there, we gonna do what they say can’t be done”.. I bet our pops are hanging out with butch cassidy and Wyatt Earp having whiskey in the saloon. ❤❤❤❤❤ rip bad ass dads.
God bless your dad..every time I watch this movie,I like it even more..parts you you never noticed before
@@michaelrohrer2104 here’s to all the dads and step dads that actually gave a shit…. We lost some good ones And now we are the next generation of good ones. Let’s give em hell boys.
Sally Field was absolutely adorable. She’s still beautiful at 78. I remember watching The Flying Nun when I was a kid.
With a great butt.😊
Gidget!
@ I Dream of Genie or Bewitched? Ginger or Mary Ann?
@@alanratay4583 Get both is the answer :)
@@alanratay4583 In order: Genie, Ginger, Samantha, Mary Ann.
Years ago, I took my girlfriend to a seafood restaurant. She asked for hush puppies with her meal. I start chuckling. She asked what was so funny. I said, "we don't got time for that crap!" She laughed right along with me 😂😂
😂
That’s a keeper …get a ring on her finger
Some hush puppies daddy
You should have put a ring on her finger for that!
@@joelellis7035 I dated a girl who could quote the Naked Gun. We would watch it and howl with laughter when Leslie Nielson thought his own car was trying to run him over. Ah, what a broad!
The Diablo sandwich is a spicy pulled pork sandwich that's often served on a hamburger bun with hot sauce. It was invented in the late 1960s in a Southern restaurant near Atlanta, Georgia. The sandwich became well-known after Jackie Gleason ordered one in the 1977 movie Smokey and the Bandit
Going to have to try that.
@@georgelevin6134 my acid reflux wouldn’t like it.
@ I agree. I make pulled pork never ever gave a second thought about hot sauce on it. Sounds good.
It’s great with hot sauce. Get some smoked kind. Delicious.
I had one in eastern Tennessee last year. It’s the only way I’ll have a pulled pork sandwhich, just as you said; but I never knew there was specific name for it, I’ve alwys had them like that, but that one in TN last year was the best yet.
I remember riding in the front of a car on a trip once, and a friend started watching Smokey and the Bandit on his tablet in the back seat. I couldn't even see the screen, and I was crying with laughter just listening to the audio. Gleason was perfection in the role.
Sometimes I forget how much I love this silly movie! Jackie Gleason is wonderful.
You want sumten , Hush puppies daddy we got no time for that crap 😂😂😂😂lmao this whole scene !
😂
One of the very few movies to survive the first STAR WARS movie . Best year in movies in a long time . I miss them all .
I was 15 that year- it was a GREAT time to be a teenager...
Still playing in the dollar theatre in 1978. Great year for movies. Saw Star Wars, Smokey and the Bandit, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Every Which Way but Loose and Good Guys Wear Black and probably several that I can't remember. I was eight and my sister was six. We would got to the movies every week in the summer, sometimes more. I have not stepped into a movie theatre in like ten years.
I was 10 that summer of 1977. What a great time to be alive. Smokey and the Bandit and Star Wars OWNED the theaters that summer, week after week.
Apparently this sequence was not in the original script. It was completely Jackie Gleason’s idea! Bravo Jackie!
Good to know because it's the only time in the entire film that Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason share the screen face to face, making it arguably the most important scene in the movie.
As a kid growing up, one of my all time favorite movies, I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it. Mr. Gleason and Mr. Reynolds, thank you for making my youth that much better.
Whenever you're feeling down and out, watch Smokey and the Bandit. It will fix ya.
You'll want to get out and go fast. 10-4
Smokey and the Bandit, and Cannonball Run.
"you want sumpin?.... we ain got no time fo tha' crap!" 😅😅 love Buford T Justice
😂😂😂
If i remember correctly this was translated in the german version to "Do you think I'm baking you a damn cake here?"
@@vornamenachname5589 that's sounds absolutely right😭😭😭
I'm in a goddamn hurry😆😆
“Nice azz”. Best part of the movie.
Thank ya nice lady. The best. I've said that since I seen the movie in 1977.
Best scene.
That line is used twice in the movie!
Yet is was _after_ he cleaned his glasses.😂
@@vinniemoreno704 someone was chasing him after all.😄
I can watch Smokey and the bandit hundred times and never Will get tired rest in peace . Jackie Gleason makes the best sheriff he had me rolling
Jackie Gleason reminds me so much of my grandfather. I miss him so much 🥺
RIP
Amen RIP 🙏
Was he chasing them beer bandits?
Trivia - if it weren't for 'Star Wars', 'Smokey & the Bandit' would have been the #1 grossing movie of 1977. It beat out 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', and 'Saturday Night Fever'.
Pure cinematic gold Mr Gleason.
My grandfather looked alot like Jackie in this movie...same size too....and when you hear him yelling right before he walks in...that was my grandad too. 🤣🤣
The old timers we got to see were a diff bread
@@mumbles215 that's for sure!!!
I must have watched this movie 100's times and still enjoy it. R.I.P. both .
I like how Junior gets nothing because he asked for the wrong thing.
outstanding comment
@ricardocastillo5485 thx 😄
"Ain't no way you come from my loins"
@@halfmil6467 First thing I'm gonna do when I get home...
@@ricardocastillo5485😅
I wish I could pay a $1.50 for two cheeseburgers and an iced tea.
And get paid $2.00 an hour like they did in 1976...
Don't be greedy. The ice tea is close enough to that price.
If you go to the local Burger King around here, and ask for two chocolate chip cookies ($1.20) and a Medium beverage upcharge ($0.40), you might get close. If that upcharge request works, you might make out like a bandit. If they ask if you want a hamburger, say nine.
Just go back to 1976.
You could in 1977. Lol🤣🤣🤣
Jackie Geason, comedic genius. R.I.P. to The Great One!
One of the best. The humour and wise cracks are amazing. Brilliant from start to finish.
"Hush puppies, daddy." "WE GOT NO TIME FOR THAT CRAP!!!"
It's crazy how much better this is without editing.
Unforgetable for me. I was 9 years old and this was the first time I was ever allowed to go see a movie in the theater. Yes, back then, no one cared it was PG, your a baby faced kid, and had no adult with you.!☺️ $2.25 it was to get a ticket! The movie ticket, a giant popcorn and soda, and milk duds to boot! When it was over you still had change left from a 5$ bill! One of my all time favorite comedy action movies. I'm still a die hard fan of Jackie Gleason. I love and own the classic collection of the groundbreaking tv comic sitcom, "The Honeymooners"! Awww, those were the days of True Old School America! BRING THEM BACK PLEASE!👌👍
“What I owe?” Cracks me up every time.
"Are you chasing somebody? Is somebody chasing you?" 🤣
One of the best scenes in movie history. And' funniest.
My dad and I used to watch this movie together. Good memories.
My favorite guys, Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason!
The Great One(s). Rip to the Bandit crew who have passed. Burt, Jerry, Jackie, and Fred the dog. Frog is still with us.
(Edited because I missed one, or two). Mike Henry, who played Junior. One of my favorite exchanges in the Laurel and Hardy pair as follows:
" Junior?,
Yes Daddy,
Why aren't there any bullets in your gun??,
It makes it too heavy, Daddy".
I know it's coming, but still a good laugh. Rip Mike Henry.
Paul Williams (Little Enos) is still alive.
BEST. MOVIE.EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a beautiful time
Don’t feel forget Junior who was played by Mike Henry who passed away in 2021.
@CasinoMan2005 Damn, I missed a biggie
Great movie! That scene between Burt and Jackie is priceless. 🤣
Watched this movie so many times .Thx for sharing Part ,so good!👍
Great fun movie,burt being Burt.
Great movie, one of the all time greats.
Great actors, great insults, nothing is like this nowadays ☹️
@@michaellowe5980 hell, you couldn't do anything close to that without somebody getting their damn nose out of joint!
After this movie, we all had CB radios. The best part was picking your handle. We put a base station in the house and had them in every vehicle, it was cell phones before we had any idea what a cell phone was.
Now you pick a Social Media 'handle.'
BTW, CB culture is closer to SM than it is to using a cell phone, even with phone message groups.
10-4 good buddy
I thought the movie Convoy made the CB popular? That is when I got mine.
Breaker one nine, you got your ears on?
@TRUTH-4U-NOW Lol , yes, especially when it was illegal ! They then legalised it on FM with a licence fee , then the popularity fell off a cliff ....!
@@SISU889 LOL the ultimate marketing word, illegal (no taxes on purchase, no licences or regulations)
Jackie, one of the best!
One of my Father's favorite movies, he even twice bought and restored his 79 Camaro. I think now about this movie today
It's a Firebird Trans AM
@@JohnPaul-pb4eu Firebird and Camaro were Sisters! Firebird Trans AM was the Faster one however as it got the 190 Horse Olds Rocket 403 (IIRC the Cars used for this film had the Olds 403 as the Hood Scoops are marked "6.6 Litre" while W72 was marked "T/A 6.6" , the modern Dub also clearly has the sound of an Olds 403, the Trad Dub was actually an SD455 Sound (taken, again IIRC, from the Custom Tri-Chevy used in Two Lane Blacktop), an Engine which the Firebird lost after '74) and the W72 (Under-Rated at 220 Horse, with the Manual Cam it was closer to 300! it is how a W72 Manual '77 could Smoke even the old Ram Air's!) while the Camaro topped out with the 175 Horse "Mouse" 350. Still Sisters however.
@simeonyves5940 CAMARO IS CHEVROLET....TRANS AM IS PONTIAC
@ Still Sisters, same "F Body" Chassis with the same Locating Points, same Y99 Radial Tuned Suspension System, 70% the Same Parts shared throughout both Cars, Same Borg Warner Super T-10 (Manual) or GM THM200C (Automatic) Gearbox Options, heck, you could even get the Camaro's "Mouse" 350 in the "Esprit" Luxury Firebird (no the "Rockford Files" actually did not use a Firebird Esprit, the Cars used were actually Firebird Formula (with Olds Rocket 403, THM200C (as although James Garner himself was a fully Qualified, Formula One! Rated Driver and was fully Manual Rated, in Lore his Character, Jim Rockford, simply just preferred an Automatic so the Stunt Cars were Automatics!) and Y99 ('77) /WS6 ('78) Handling Pack) models that had been Visually Downgraded to Esprit Spec as you couldn't get the Rocket 403 and WS6 on the Esprit, but they needed both for the Stunt Work!) due to how many parts were shared due to GM cost Cutting! They were Sister Cars within the GM Family! Both Pontiac and Chevrolet were Wholly Owned by GM! They were Sister Cars, it is just the Firebird was the out and out Performance Model as Pontiac sold on a Performance Image (and T/A lived up to that alright! With a '77 Spec Manual Cam W72, Super T-10, no A\C, and Y99, T/A would Smoke even "Mr 'Vette" on the 1\4 Mile! In those Days before "Corvette King Performance" (1982 -Now) clipped the "Screamin' Chicken's" Wings) while Camaro was more of a Practical Cruiser more in line with Chevrolet's Practical "Family Friendly" Image. However in terms of Chassis, the "F body", Camaro and Firebid were and are (as the modern "Trans Am Worldwide" Boids are still Camaro "F Body" Based!) Sisters as they use the same Chassis!
A favorite movie for me.
I was 13 and watched that movie with my best friend. I remember cracking up when Jackie Gleason came out of the bathroom trailing the toilet paper. He was so funny
I was 13 also.
😂😂 Can you drive a forktruck?...
I can drive any forking thing! 😅😅
I have never seen Smokey and the Bandit. I randomly stumbled across this clip, and as a result, I've put the movie near the top of my list to watch soon.
You won't be disappointed 🎉
Hush puppies daddy 😂😂
We got no time for that CRAP!
I love these guys!
Young Sally Fields was very, very hot
It's Sally Field.
Sally in her seventies is no slouch either
Her eyes!!!!!😍😍
If I recall correctly, this is the role that finally got her out of kid & teenager roles. She proved here that, she may be very short, but she can play an adult.
An absolutely awesome scene. Jackie Gleeson, one of the best.
Watched this with my Gen-Z son last year and he's still saying "thank you nice lady" when my wife hands him things.
What a classic clip thank you.
I wished they remained together they were perfect for each other
One of my all time favorites!
JACKIE WAS SO DAMN AWESOME IN THIS SCENE! He was one of the best.
Lolz..,, 'where's the can I gotta take a squirt.,,."
Bank robbin is baby shit along side what this dude’s been doin. 😂😂
Jackie Gleason, Burt Reynolds and James Garner are my favorite actors . Rest in peace to all you gentlemen! 🙏❤
Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason rip two of the greatest ever
Wow!!! Outstanding picture quality!!!!
Jackie Gleason…I give him an Oscar for his performance in this movie.
Never tired of watching this.
Great scene
The BEST movie ever made!
Hush puppies Daddy.
We ain't got time for that crap!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sally Field is stunning. My goodness. What a beauty.
The loo roll just cracked me up 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂
Make it fast I’m in a GODDAMN hurry lmao 😂😂 1:29 sheriff says want anything boy junior said hushpuppies daddy we have no time for that bullshit 😂😂 1:36
One of the greatest movies of all time.
And I think it might have inspired.One of the greatest t v shows the dukes of hazard
That whole era late seventies to early eighties saw the boom of anything with a southern or Texas theme because many Americans who moved north to chase jobs post WW two were relocating back to take advantage of the oil boom, lower cost of living, and milder winter. Dukes would certainly qualify, as would Urban Cowboy, the TV show Dallas, and others.
@kencummings953 Urban Cowboy And Dallas took place in Texas, which is not a Southern state. Urban cowboy is about fake Cowboys.
And and Dallas is about oil millionaires or billionaires.
I don't see the connection there.
@kencummings953 People didn't move to the South. The North, yes.
But it was mostly black people.
@@oldcountryboy I mentioned Texas in my post. Anything having to do with Texas was trendy at that time. There was even a soap opera named
"Texas" for a brief period in the early 1980's.
I guess if you want to be technical Texas is a southwestern state but as a lifelong midwesterner it's southern for me.
@kencummings953 It is definitely not a Southern state.
I remember my dad taking me to the theater to see this absolute gem!!
Went & seen it at the Showboat drive-in in Springfield Ohio with family. I was'nt 3 yet, but remember like it was yesterday.
Sheriff: "What's ya name, boy?" "Why, that would be Ferguson, Turd Ferguson. It's funny."
I remember seeing this at the movie theater.....I have been a fan of Sheriff Buford T. Justice of TEXAS every since.
Great movie !
One of the greatest scenes in cinematic history!
there are whole threads on the Internet, debating what exactly a Diablo sandwich is
if ya live in NC its a bbq sammige...
It's a essentially just a spicy Sloppy Joe.
I had my wife make some for me for my birthday last year….of course with a Dr Pepper on the side 😂
Sheriff's diablo sandwich looks extra soggy.
@@paullatina7413 Hope you didn't tell her to make it snappy!😃
The snuck in, "Nice @$$" at the end was such gold. lol
Back when movies were movies
Most underrated actor of all time.
$1.50 for TWO cheeseburgers AND an ICE TEA?! God damn 😮😮😮
Gotta remember the timeline- in"77 minimum wage was $2.60 an hour. So Today 2 cheeseburgers and a n ice tea about $9 bucks.
@StayingBack71 I get that. But! It's still amazing things like food were so affordable.
@@stevencoates3382 Yep- gallon of gas was .60 cents
New house around $80k
New Car $6995
Interest rates went thru the roof around 1979 thru the 80s....
A large Pizza delivered to your house about $7 bucks
Good times back then- People were different than today
J.G...
BRILLIANT!
B.R... Absolutely BEAUTIFUL.
I MISS THE DAYS AND THE TALENTS.
GOD BLESS
Burts chemistry with Fields is palpable here. His charactor acting usually supersedes everything, but with Sally it's his sincerity.
You said that classy. I am going to go the other route. It's because like Keaton and Pfeiffer during Batman, they were boning.
He actually was in love with that pixie
It's Field. Not Fields.
Their real life romance was blooming here
Just three short years later the opposite occurred. Burt and Sally were going through a divorce during filming of the sequel and the on screen tension between them was real. The portrayal of Burt early in the movie as a bloated alcoholic ego''d out has been was accurate of his real life as well.
@@kencummings953 Yeah, it brought the sequel way down that Burt and Sally were breaking up (they never married), but the screenwriters could have written a decent movie for them. instead they spent 20 minutes on a subplot that would take a whole other movie to resolve, and then Pontiac put him in the 301 Turbo T/A, which is also a pretty sad echo of a great car. You can see it can't even do a decent burnout from a dead stop. Meanwhile, wasn't there an idea for a sequel at the end of the first movie, the clam chowder run, or whatever? Years went by and SB-II is a good argument for limiting most sequels to 30 minutes. There's 30 great minutes in SB-II. But it's never going to be a serious movie about alcoholism, so all of that is a waste. There's just a lot of waiting around for the action and laughs. And some overlooked setups. This pregnant elephant is on its way to a Republican convention. Might as well make an abortion joke - Conn and the Burdettes are already at war, and we are so far into bad taste it's no time to pull out. But the good 30 minutes are in there.
We just named our new beautiful yorkies Smokey and The Bandit & yes,we say the Bandit every time we call him to come 🎉
Ahhhhh....... I saw this in the Drive-in in 1977.
As a 7-year old, I was most likely playing on the swings right in front of the screen while my mom and dad were 100 yards away in the car drinking beer and smoking cigarettes.
Me, along with the other 30 kids on the playground, were trusted to just find our way back to the car when we were done. Which we did.
What a magical era!!
I remember doing that in the early 80s around the time drive-ins were starting to go away in my area. On the way to the drive-in I noticed that a kid looking out of the back of the car in front of us was a classmate. Soon as we got to the drive-in all the kids lined up and held out our arms while one of the moms sprayed us with bug spray then we were off to the playground. I don't remember what the movie was. It was kind of amazing how kids would just run off and play together like it had already been universally agreed upon as to what the plan was. "Swing set located." "Objective acquired."
@ Lol!!
Awesome story!! That was us!!
Thanks for sharing, Big Red!
Such places still exist! There’s one by me that has a swingset / playground close by to the main screen. We park at the end by the swingset / playground, get to watch a movie and do adult stuff while the kids play.
Sally Field..such a beauty. ❤❤❤❤
Even today..I'd pay for an officer's diablo sammich and Dr Pepper!
Daamn right. Mighty tasty.
damn right sumbitch needs his sammich
This film did win an Oscar for Best Sound Mixing and also for Best Best Boy🎬🎬
Burt Reynolds, one of the greatest actors of all time and I love smokey and the bandit movies, very entertaining.
Gleason ad libbed most of his lines... even though they gave him a script. 😊
I heard that before😂
Buford T. Justice 😁 love this movie.
Thank you nice lady! 😅
Her face when he tells her shes going the wrong way. "OH! 🥴"
I think Burt always felt roles like these were okay but he didn't like being type-cast, much like Sean Connery felt doing the Bond films. Both could really do dramatic roles and nail them. Both of them really took their craft seriously.
Burt was up for Bond after Connery too! I think he told them it needed to be a British guy
Burt signed on for this movie because he was close friends with director and stunt coordinator Hal Needham (who may have co-wrote the screenplay as well) it was originally supposed to be a B level movie with Jerry Reed playing the Bandit.
Gleason steals every scene...he was amazing.
Jackie Gleason, the one and only
I still love watching this movie.
$1.50 for 2 cheeseburgers an ice tea. I miss those days.
Do you also miss the $2/hr wages of the time?
@kindabluejazz I was a child back then.
@ So then you probably got $1 a week as an allowance - just enough to get a comic book and a candy bar. Ground beef was about $1.50 a pound, so for the same price as those two burgers, you mom could make a meatloaf and feed the entire family at home and have leftovers for tomorrow's sandwiches.