The Cannonball Run (1981): 20 Things You Never Knew!
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- Get ready to hit the gas as we dive into 20 things you never knew about The Cannonball Run! This 1981 action-comedy classic brought an all-star cast together for one wild coast-to-coast race, packed with high-speed chases, legendary cars, and outrageous stunts. We’re uncovering the wildest facts and behind-the-scenes secrets that made The Cannonball Run an unforgettable ride.
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Love the gag reel at the end. You can see just how much fun they were all having together- makes me nostalgic.
It's nice to hear that Jackie adopted the same thing for his films... Personally, I've always thought that should be a law! 😁
I think it was the first movie I ever saw with a gag reel at the end.
Had never even heard of 'gag reel' before that.
I only did not like how Burt was bullying Dom. He was too aggressive. Otherwise it was excellent movie, loved every second and love the gag reel.
Every single movie needs to have a gag/blooper reel at the end. They already have the footage and everyone loves them.
This movie was one of my favorite comedies from the 80's, the casting was unreal.
I think exactly the same : one of my varorite movie !
Watched this at the drive in with my cousins and family. Everyone enjoyed this movie. The drive in was packed
A drive-in would have made it completely perfect!
Drive in those where the days.
This movie has one of the greatest intros of all time! The little cartoon, followed by the Lamborghini slowly fading in, the V-12 whining, and then the eventual chase? Forget about it! 👍👍
I knew from the cartoon that the there was something good coming right afterwards, and I was correct.
We got us a red Lamborghini….
It didn't take us this long to catch Dillinger.
The 80's like these were the best!
Yep before political correctness took hold
Party with an expense account... that worked!
When people actually had fun making movies and not so GD serious about everything these days most of what was in that movie would not pass the censor board but they never had a sense of humor anyway I swear there all a bunch of Jehovah's witnesses.
This is one very iconic and timeless classic film you can watch over and over again, and always find it entertaining. Please don’t ever do a remake of this film, it just wouldn’t work, you can’t make a better film than this original one
Agreed!
ditto. it would be cast with bland actors like ryan gosling, robert pattinson, amanda heard, jaden smith, etc...BUT scarlett johansson would look amazing as a lamborghini girl.
!00 % agree it would all be a Fast n Furious thing no heart to it at all besides those where the times sof the ca chase movies and TV shows.
The character Roger Moore plays doesn't believe he's James Bond, he believes he's the actor Roger Moore.
Correct.
Hilarious !
What made that really funny, is that he was acting like someone who only thought he was Roger Moore but wasn't.
"You know something, mother? You're too Jewish." 🤣
Seymour Goldfarb Jr.
Heir to the Goldfarb Girdle fortune, lol
Love the Doctor in the Ambulance, played the part so well, as a 70's Baby watching these in the 1980's was epic, totally the best time to grow up and watch Comedies, and Spoof's like Airplane, and anything with Leslie Nielsen in it
Jack Elam was his name.
Dr. Van Helsing has been my avatar for years
There are also hilarious stories about the lack of rehearsals for the scenes. Burt and his boys would basically just show up, run through the lines and do two or three takes and call it a wrap! Gotta love it.
My late Dad took my older brother and me to see this in theater when it was released. Love this movie and the gag reels.
DITTO...i have the exact same experience !
@@BenHamine75 I was 10 years old when my parents took my younger brother and I to see this. This and Raiders of the Lost Ark were my favorites that year.
One of the greatest opening scenes of all time period exclamation point
My favorite movie of all time. It’s insanely quotable and you can tell the cast is having a ball with one another.
I can't see shit, can you? ...No problem man, no problem!!! 😂 The baddie from Ghost (P. Swayze) and his cowboy partner
Yep,my favorite as well a good fun film,no ego's,just stars having fun
"God is our co-pilot"
"Remember our car? 2 seats - where is he going to sit?"
"Those weren't fathers! They were..."
"Mothers!" LOL
@@thefourhorsemen91 😂
"Did you bring anything to eat?" *Mel Tillis pulls out a snack version of chips*
FREEZE IN THE NAME OF YOUR BENEFICIARY!!
@@humanoid7765 "Freeze! Or name your beneficiaries."
Must been 10 years old when i taped it off BBC1 and quickly became the most watched film groowing up along with ball 2.
Thankfully now own both on Bluray and have introduced the films to my kids.
In the days when the BBC actually showed worthwhile stuff.
The ambulance used in the movie Cannonball Run was the actual ambulance that Brock Yates and Hal Needham used in the real 1979 Cannonball race. It broke down and failed to finish. Hal Needham then used it for the movie. It disappeared after the movie and has not surfaced since.
Bingo. Pamela Yates was the "patient", and LA anesthesiologist Dr. Lyle Royer was the "doctor".
@@DortonFarb
Right, Lady Pamela.
i think it did show up at the Greenwich Concours, or maybe that one was a clone.
@alertgasper The original one no longer exists. MANY people have searched for MANY years for it.
There are numerous vans that have been dressed up to look like it.
The most authentic clone belongs to Travis Bell. It was built out of several vans, and cost him a LOT of money to build it.
80's movie were just the best. RIP Burt.
Best movie ever October 2024 just watched it
Nothing here that I didn't know but an entertaining synopsis of one of my favorite films. Something to add to your list, the extras in the crowd at the beginning of the race, were in fact former Cannonballers from the 5 runs in the 70's. The first 1971 run in the 'Moontrash 2' van, was a solo run since no one else showed up at the start.
"Yeah, I gotta lotta goodies for you guys and a Big Gulp Dr Pepper for me! I'm a pepper. You're a pepper. He's a pepper. She's a pepper. Wouldn't ya like to be a pepper, too?" 😆
Would you get in here Victor. LOL 😅😆😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣😄😂😅😆
i was a pepper until i got bit by a wild dog one night on a scottish moor, then i was never seen again....
but i did make out with jenny agutter so.....
bonus....!
@jimlassiter749 That's ENOUGH!
A shame that Burt Reynolds regretted making this movie. I loved it. So many great scenes. I still love watching the outtakes.
Great video, thanks. I grew up with this, and the Gumball Rally, it took me ages to get that on DVD. Other pointless trivia, Roger Moore never drove any form of Aston Martin during his tenure as JB.
Brilliant video! I love Cannonball Run and didn't know many of those facts! Thanks!
Great film. It defines the 80s.
Oh I love this movie 😂
I loved these movie as a kid and recently rewatched...still loved them!
Reynolds never regretted making The Cannonball Run. You're confusing it with the awful Stroker Ace.
that was the only thing in the video that was news to me. i had always thought burt had a fun time clowning around with all his friends.
Yeah, he loved it. That’s why half his mates are in it
Of course he didn't, he hooked up with Farrah and was banging her every night during this shoot.
Yeah, this made me both a little disappointed (if true) and surprised. Especially since he signed up to be in the second movie.
@@Valkyrie77 that’s why TH-camrs should do their research properly before spilling their Chinese whispers across the web
Man, I loved this movie, every shot is like an old friend.
Another brilliant 80's classic. The critic's know jack by the way.
Thanks for this one! The Cannonball Run (1981) is one of my fave films.
Dean Martin's & Sammy Davis Jr.'s Fenderbaum were my fave characters, posing as priests while driving a red Ferrari (!).
Sir Roger Moore was a nutcase who believed he was James Bond 007.
Fenderbaum: "Stop! We want to Bless you!!"
Blake (at seeing Farrah Fawcett-Majors): "I have GOT to bless HER..." 😊
Nobody can play drunk priests like Dean and Sammy.
"Next Time.. METHODISTS!!!!" (that one cracks me up as a Presby...they are going from one Furnace to another theologically, and it just Cracks me up!)
“These bleeds…?”😂
😂
"Dunn dun DU-UH-UHNNNN!! It's Captain Chaos...!" "Oh, Him". That never get's old
I don't wanna talk about him!Whenever you don't want HIM,he's around.Whenever you WANT HIM ,he's not around.I'm gonna get a beer!
Cannonball Run started the idea of doing bloopers during the end credits and it’s so iconic that when movies do it it’s literally called “Cannonball Run Credits.”
I watched the hell out of this on cable during the early 80’s. I didn’t really get the cameos then. I haven’t seen the movie for a good 30 years now but I bet I would pick up on so many more things I didn’t get watching it as a kid.
I and II are my favorite movies of all time and I still learned a few things from this video!
cannon ball run is a all time iconic that never gets old and if they ever did another remake it would have so much green screen and CGI it wouldn't be the same
Great cast burt,sammy,dean,klinger off mash,farrah is it,too many to list
Great Movie.....I really liked the second one as well.
right on cool stuff enjoyed
8:54 another easteregg, the Bandit was on the road in the movie too.
No way!! I never noticed that. So cool!!!
“It’s not the throttle, it’s the clutch”😂😂😂
Wow I've always like this movie.
The first time i saw it was way back when it first aired on HBO
I also like the very end during the closing credits coupled with all the flubs and out takes😊
In fact, I just watched it last Saturday night on LAFF
Rickles nearly got his knee cap blown off in Kelly's Heroes in the minefield scene, they were using quarter sticks. That was real blood in the truck at the end. He was done with movies until Toy Story. Now after a 50 Vegas comedy career he is so proud that his grand kids know him as Mr Potato Head.
We watched a lot of this being filmed. In Tucson and Southern Arizona
I never realized Jackie Chan was in this movie until I rewatched it about 5 or 6 years ago. Blew my mind the amount of current and future talent was in that movie. One of the greatest comedies ever made.
“Dahn dahn daaaaaaaaaahn!”
Not mentioned is that during a real Cannonball, with that actual ambulance, the team really did get pulled over (in PA, I believe) and the story used by Dom, Burt, and the doctor in the movie was almost word-for-word how they got out of a pretty large ticket.
plus hiding on a flatbed truck to fix the transmission.
As soon as I sow that you added Cannonball with David Carradine I subscribed…Gumball was a bit more silly but when you are a kid…good times
Brock Yates didn’t just use an ambulance in a race, he used THAT ambulance. That very same Dodge Tradesman. Also, in the scene with Hal Needham as a paramedic going to the hospital, you can tell his line “Like shot through a gun” been dubbed over as it was originally “Like shit through a goose” when you read his lips.
That van, according to Yates in his book, was used in two different events. It was repainted and outfitted with lights 9:08 and the livery and the engine and transmission were built by Dick Landy. Yeah, the famous drag racer. BTW, Hal Needham was his co-driver the year that the ambulance ruse was used, and Yate's future wife was the patient in the back. The book is a fantastic read and nearly all the cars and characters were referenced in the movie from different years of the event. Nice work, Mr. Yates. R.I.P.
@@rickstephens4490The 1978 Dodge B200 was only used in the '79 Cannonball.
He married Pam before the '79 Cannonball.
LA anesthesiologist Dr. Lyle Royer was the "doctor" that rode in the back with Pam.
@@rickstephens4490 Yes! It was allegedly a 440, in one scene you can hear its loping idle. From my experience, it sounds like the DC 484 cam and it has a header leak (like they all do!).
I was 16 y/o when this movie hit the theaters. Me and all my friends talked about doing a race like this over the summer.
I’m always really disappointed when stars from my favourite beloved films go on to say they regretted making them 😢
Never happened. That was 'Stroker Ace'. If he regretted it, why would he make the sequel? Stroker Ace was the film he made and turned down the astronaut role in Terms Of Endearment that Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for. That's a regrettable choice.
The chocolate monk?
He can say that, he can say that..........
They weren't father's....they were mothers! 😂
LOL my memories of my father laughing "chocolate MONK heheheheeeee" priceless 👍👍
@@tootsy1100Come here Victor. "Smack".
@@tootsy1100😂best line in a movie with great one liners.
I loved speed zone, wore the VHS tape out. Seeing that lamborghini skip across the water was mind blowing.
I like 👍 the cannon ball run 🏃 movie 🎥 with the cars 🚗 in the movie 🎥
"because you're small, small... s-m-all!!"
I quote that line all the time just classic
@@charlesschaefer7354 yes, it's a family favorite!
I also find it hard to believe Burt hated this movie, why, he looked like he was having so much fun making it and to be his biggest pay cheque at the time must have made it sweeter
Burt is quoted as saying he's never had as much fun making a movie and had a hard time keeping a straight face due to Dom Deluise's antics..
Another amazing fact about this film is that it was made without a script or plot. Shazzam!
As a kid, i met DeLuise as a young kid, he was the best person and very friendly to me dispite me being so young.
I always found it awesome that the ambulance was the ACTUAL one used by Brock Yates in the real Cannonball Run!
Yes. Unfortunately, the vehicle has been lost to history and likely no longer exists, but Travis Bell spent six figures painstakingly recreating a copy of it. A lot of people mistake it for the actual Yates/Needham race vehicle from the '79 Cannonball.
An absolute classic
Thanks!
If you do a 20 about the 2nd Film, the Lamborghini at the start of it belonged to John Schneider,Catherine Bach acted as a broker between the filmaker and John to make that happen.
Now THAT is deep trivia! 👏
They bring that up at Cons , John wondered why it was Red when he obviously knew his was White (until the power hose part made him realise) he also remarks the car was a little worse for wear when it returned to him.
The production were struggling to get their hands on a Countach , Catherine pestered John on the Dukes set , John was very reluctant and needed quite a bit of cash to be persuaded to loan it , they've told the story at comic-con type events.
John schneider also played donato in speed zone, the lamborghini driver!
This movie is awesome, don't care what critics say!! 😆
When I was a child, the doctor in the ambulance used to scare me. Now I'm an adult, he's my favourite character (after Captain Chaos, of course!)
A classic film!
3:32 Then John Landis said, "But this is a helicopter! Hurry the f*ck up!"
NEVER trust a critic. I grew up on cannonball run and loved it.
Goldfarb thinks he’s Roger Moore rather than James Bond. Either way, he’s the best character in the film for me. My daughters and I often play out his fight scene.
I believe you got it slightly wrong with Roger Moore bit. MGM were not pissed that Roger More was pretending to be Roger More acting like James Bond, but actually because Roger Moore was wearing the same tuxedo that James Bond wore. From this movie on, MGM effectively trademarked the James Bond tuxedo, preventing any James Bond actor to wear a tuxedo in any other non Bond film. Fantastic movie, and one of my all time favourites.
You're right. While he was James Bond, Pierce Brosnan ran into trouble for wearing a tux in the remake of "Thomas Crown Affair".
I love this movie❤❤❤😂😂😂😂
Reminds me of a poem i wrote:
"The automobile, the automobile. ...."
I LOVED the 3rd movie in the series.
😮 I hope they don't reboot cannonball run ‼️ the original was great the cast was awesome 😎. Nowadays the actors are just hacks and want to bees not good ‼️
They’d have to make a woke version, we all know it would suck hugely.
Not.... HIM!?
... Don-Don-DAAAAAHHH!!! 🤣🤣
Also, I use Dean Martin's line to SDJ on anyone significantly shorter than me (including my kids) - "I've had it up to HERE with you!"
Would had love to see a Captain Chaos movie starring Dom DeLuise but the movie studio missed a big opportunity to do a spin off film of a beloved & popular character. If someone was smart enough could write a good script to do a Captain Chaos movie starring Paul Walter Hauser who would be perfect in the role.
I don't want to talk about HIM!!!!!
Awesome movie, why don’t they make movies like this anymore is a mystery!
How many of the actors are no longer with us....Damn, I'm getting old
I think Jamie Farr, Jackie Chan, Adrienne Barbeau, and Tara Buckman are the only main cast members still alive in 2024.
Terry Bradshaw is still kicking.
@@humanoid7765 Footballs?
I'm sure there was enough bloopers to make its own movie.
The Coen Brothers writing Cannonball Run sounds insane.
As someone pointed out They not only mimic to the use of an ambulance.They used the actual ambulance that they ran the real Cannonball in...The real ambulance unfortunately broke down at the same Desert Inn location where the dinosaurs and peewee's big adventure were filmed. You can even find pictures of it under the dinosaurs online...
I love these movies
Burt was a good actor; if he didn't enjoy making this movie, then his apparent enjoyment (especially in the blooper reel) was serious method.
Great to see Mo Green and Tesio teaming up
Just goes to show critics don't know everything. This was one of the many movies from the 80s and 90s which you could just sit back and watch as a family and thoroughly enjoy it. It was made for entertainment, not for artistic prowess. Movies these days are too serious and too much involved. I miss sometimes just watching a movie for the fun of it. The most recent one I can remember was The Hangover and that's a few years ago now.
"Bring friends...a LOT of them...".
Such a great flick… sigh, going to go pick it up on whichever streaming service has it…
A couple of famous people raced in the real Cannonball Run race over the years, Richard Rawlings of the show Fast and Loud and Will Wright, creator of the Sims and other computer games were winners
Anybody else notice the irony at 00:54, where they passed a newer model Bandit Trans Am? 😉
Also, does anyone know what kind of motorhome that is at the beginning? I know it's not a GMC, I'm thinking maybe Revcon or FMC?
Can we get a count of how many viewers here were able to pause it at the 7:26 mark? :)
4:30 I assume this spinout was sped up, but even so, that's a CRAZY stunt. Back then, they had to ACTUALLY do this stuff.
That was a fun movie that we went to see several times in the theaters. It can never be reproduced or re-booted because talent like that no longer exists in HollyWOKE!
They filmed a lot of the scenes in Atlanta actually in Decatur, Georgia off of Glenwood. I remember as a kid there’s a hotel near 285 in Glenwood, where they actually filmed the scene where the car went inside of the swimming pool. There was some apartments that sat right behind the hotel that my family lived in and I was trying my hardest to get in the movieand the scene where they were riding up and down the hill was on Columbia Drive in Decatur so I remember a lot of the scenes also the scene where the airplane landed was in Lithonia, Georgia downtown Lithonia just some nuggets
Great movie... not available anywhere to stream and hasn't been for years for some reason
We sadly don’t have Burt anymore. A remake would 100% flop
Instead of doing a remake of "Cannonball Run", they should do a Captain Chaos movie starring Paul Walter Hauser. A Captain Chaos movie is so long overdue.
Have not seen this movie in years.
Surprised that Ebert gave it half-a-star! The movie was a romp - it never takes itself seriously and just has fun with the concept. A great deal of fun, in fact,
I know, especially because this film had a real life script to go by. It's almost as though Ebert was writing into the future for Cannonball II... That one had no plot except to get as many friends of Burt, Dino and Sammy on screen.
You missed----
The ambulance in the movie was the actual one Brock Yates used in the real race and the scene where it is pulled over in NJ was an almost perfect re-enactment with one of the troopers eventually making captain.
Bingo. Brock's wife Pam was the "patient", and LA anesthesiologist Dr. Lyle Royer was the "doctor".
Surprised and disappointed that Reynolds said he wished he hadn't starred in it, especially after doing a sequel two years later. It always looked like they were having a great time.
I loved The Cannonball Run. Cannonball 2, Smokey 2 & 3, and Stroker Ace were terrible though.
The story of the real Cannonball, and why Brock killed it, just as wild. Given how much Brock Yates was on TV in the late 70s/early 80s and how much work he did covering sports and being a journalist, plus his work for Car and Driver, he could likely afford that five million out of his own funds
The van was the PRDA and I'm not sure if they finished. Yates won with Dan Gurney in the Ferrari 365 GTB that you showed. That was the two of them.
It deserves a remake with modern cars on the German Autobahn. I know that's been done but not in a movie format