The Cannonball Run (1981): 20 Things You Never Knew!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2024
- 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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Great film. It defines the 80s.
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
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
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.
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.
I’m always really disappointed when stars from my favourite beloved films go on to say they regretted making them 😢
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 !
The 80's like these were the best!
Yep before political correctness took hold
Cannonball run isn't just a movie - it's cinema!
"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 😂
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 👍👍
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.
My favorite movie of all time. It’s insanely quotable and you can tell the cast is having a ball with one another.
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.
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.
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.
"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?" 😆
We watched a lot of this being filmed. In Tucson and Southern Arizona
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.
I can't believe you didn't mention that the ambulance in the movie IS the same ambulance that Yates and Needam drove in their C2C run!
ABSOLUTELY DO NOT REBOOT THIS FILM. First off there’s not enough mega stars to fill out the cast. Secondly whoever they’d use would fail miserably and saying they would pale in comparison would be the understatement of the century. Whoever the stars are today aren’t household names that everyone knows like Burt, Dom, Sammy, Dean, etc. Finally it would flop because not enough of our culture today view their cars as their prized possession like people did from the 1960s through the 1980s. It just wouldn’t click except with those of us who are old enough to remember those times. The younger generation just wouldn’t understand it. Plus during this time period comedy was funny because no one got offended if they were picked on, they just gave it right back. Imagine someone calling a black guy the chocolate monk. Us older people would just pick a reboot apart by comparing it to the original masterpiece. Same with Smokey and the Bandit. Today only Clint Eastwood would have the balls to make such a film but there’s just not enough of his type left to make a movie like this.
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
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.
The character Roger Moore plays doesn't believe he's James Bond, he believes he's the actor Roger Moore.
ALSO: This movie has gotten a bad rap from critics since day 1, and I have no clue why. Ensemble cast, great one liners, just funny as hell. Ever Burt would claim he did it just to help a friend and for the movie and he was ashamed. It was like, WHY? (the sequel on the other hand..ok, yeah, I could understand that)
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.
"because you're small, small... s-m-all!!"
A classic film!
Please no remakes, the movie is perfect as it is, the critics at the time were just jealous because they failed in the movie business (no joke, many were).
Is it a work of cinematic art? hell no, is it a work of peek entertainment with some of the biggest names in the business? hell yes!
It was and still is one of my all-time favorite "braindead comedies", just switch of your mind and enjoy the chaos, it's slapstick on wheels.
And Jamie Farr still cracks me up as much today, as he did when i first saw the movie, and Burt? he should not have regretted making it, the movie brought joy to many of his fans.
😮 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 ‼️
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.
In that scene with the bikers, thete is one seen with a bald head, standing next to Peter Fonda, that shaved headed actor can also been seen in the 1973 Burt Reynolds film
Tje Longest Yard.
He played the most dangerous and feared inmate
"Shockly"
His name is Rob Tessier. He was also in Hooper with Burt Reynolds
@@GiambijuiceI believe he played pro football
@@Giambijuice cool, thanks
Please
No Reboots.
Re-Release YES
But NO Reboots.
@robertdamron898 - an interesting idea as I have yet to see a reboot that didn't SUCK. Total Recall was horrible. Point Break was terrible and the list goes on. Roadhouse did not stink as bad as I thought it would.
Question - how would you re-release a movie in 2024?
@@johnlozauskas778they re released Smokey and the Bandit in the theaters a few years ago. I went and it was great on the big screen.
They re-dubbed Smokey and the Bandit and it was terrible, I hope they don't reboot Cannonball Run and alter the audio......
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!"
Probably one of the most impactful movies of my life as a youth it triggered my interest in beautiful cars and boobs. 😂
One thing never noticed is the black tab on the top back of the door on the passenger side of the 308. I imagine as the stock door handle is hard to manipulate this was done to make it easier.
How many of the actors are no longer with us....Damn, I'm getting old
I thought it was “thunder-bomb”
Sammy David jr character.
What a great film 👍🏼
Interestingly you didn't mention that the Black lambo is the actual car that killed the real Cannonball. Brock met with the owner that was excited to have such a fast car but Brock left that meetup deciding to cancel future Cannonballs because someone was going to get hurt. The lambo was sold to the owner of Hawaiian Tropic and was lent to the production for the movie.
I know that we are supposed to be Siskel & Ebert-levels of old man grouchy when it comes to remakes, but I'd buy a ticket or two to see Cannonball Run remade by stunt people a la The Fall Guy. It can be done. I think it would be a super fun movie with modern cars! It would give Fast & the Furious a reason to put in more effort into their films.
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.
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.
Studios are so dumb. It was Cannonball Run that turned me on to James Bond. The parody was great advertising. They should have had to pay.
I remember Cannonball runII but not any others
Is that tara buckmans nip at 0:20?
How did you not mention the trans am he passed as a nod to Hal Needham's movie, Smokey and The Bandit starring Burt Reynolds?
Nah. That's been done
Funny, this coincides perfectly with 20 things I didn't wanna know.
Making a reboot of a cult classic will fail.. LEAVE THIS CLASSIC ALONE!!!
Can we get a count of how many viewers here were able to pause it at the 7:26 mark? :)
I knew everything here. But good video nonetheless.
DO NOT REBOOT! Sadly comedic genius is gone in this world. They would have to make it woke and it will suck! Let the memory of these stars live on!
A "WOKE" movie? That's a first..lmao...what's next, a woke candy bar?
They couldn't afford to remake this movie.
It would suck!! Entertainers like Davis jr., Martin, Reynolds, Elm, etc don't exist anymore!!!
Did CannonBball Run leave from Goodwives Darien CT?
Good question
So is Bert and Jackie
The Aston was making its third film appearance it had been in goldfinger and thunderball
i love the cannoballs movie,s al dies acteurs ar legens
The DB5 Roger Moore drives is the actual Goldfinger car, but it was in very bad condition and resulted in an accident and left a female stuntwoman in a bad way
I like how there is a black 77-78 Trans-am in the movie. LOL
this man has been injured "Mr Foyt " he had his bell rang still use that line now when see a crash in sport or dashcam videos
Him!
ALL reboots should be illegal!
It's incredible how many drivers are pulled over while drinking, and the police don't even care about the booze. This was before Madd and all of the drunk driving campaigns made it into such a huge deal.
This was on TV just a short while ago. I had forgotten what an awful movie it is. But it is a trip back in time.
😮 nowadays a reboot things and they suck worse than the originals nobody knows how to act ‼️😡
I loved this movie when I was a kid. I bought it on Blu-ray a couple years ago and watched it and thought this is really stupid. 😄
Cannon ball remake stay the fudge away from it. The question would be who would star in it this day and age. Although they made a 3rd one it wasn't bad it wasnt the greates film in the world it was ok lol.
That cop is supposed to be Burt Reynold's "double" .? Major Fail. IMO he doesn't look anything like Burt.
Don't bother with the 3rd one burt ain't in it
NEVER REBOOT THIS CLASSIC!
Any reboot would be utterly hamstrung by everybody's woke sensitivities and feelings.! The film would completely suck Chef's Salty Balls!
Have seen this movie over 100 times is so BAD ITS GOOD and the GUMBALL RALLY is just has GOOD
Please, leave this movie alone. Take it as is. There would be no reason to remake it, except to exploit it and make some quick $$. Plus, 86 MPH is a slow day on most roads today. This would only create another generation of idiots trying to copy it. Remember life before the fast and furious?
Though I seen this in the Movie Theater and many times on TV / Cable after finding out what happened to this female stunt performer I will no longer watch this again also another great and informative video Rocky.
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I now feel a little bit stupider for watching the whole video