I'm going to be real for a sec. I was a little Black boy living in Oakland Ca, and loved that movie like no other. I have watched that movie more times than I can remember. I never noticed the confederate flag on that car until I saw someone complaining about it a couple years ago. Let me tell you this. I didn't care about it then, and I don't care about it now. I will still sit back and watch that movie with the same joy In my heart as if I was a kid. Those who never watched, and complained couldn't see every race helping the Bandit, frog who is very beautiful, and the infamous Snowman! CGI action movies today can't touch the real action and stunt scenes, and the comedic genius of Jackie. When I got old enough, and funds was good enough. You damn right I bought me a Trans Am!
Spot on same here Black man here Burt was no Racist he was a Legit Southern boy that was Solid worked with Jim Brown and made the production hire a black stunt man Burt paid $500 out his pocket , 99 Rifles ... He is Missed
@@stephenowens3687 I hope they try. Can you imagine what flop it'd be with all the PC woke boxes they'd have to check off to avoid offending/excluding anyone? 🤣🤣🤣
I became a truck driver as a result of seeing this movie when I was 11years old. I have been driving for 33 years now, own my truck and trailer, and have owned a black trans am… thanks for the memories!
I wanted to be one too, but never made it... still love to drive cross country. My dad did too. And now so do my children. We take two trips a year .. week to a fortnight long. Things have changed a lot but if you keep to State routes, old country roads, small towns; it is still fun. Rte 66, Rte 60, Rte 1...
I remember my father taking me to see this in the theatre. He laughed like hell every time Jackie Gleason opened his mouth. I still watch this movie today as a 53 year-old man and remember those good times.
I didn't get to see this is the theater with Dad, but to the day he died he would laugh until tears came...he just LOVED the line, "there is NO WAY you sprang from my loins, boy"...I'm about to turn 50 and I don't miss a chance to see this or canonball run
@@ericdraven7185 both Jerry and my Pops. Yes. Thank you. I have him in my garage now. And often listen to anything from 50s to 70s country, soul, rock. Just keeps me closer to him and reminds me of the good times.
I was 2 months shy of my 7th birthday when my Mom took me to see this masterpiece. Seeing Sally's tomboy nature celebrated instead of shamed was a BIG moment for that 6 year old girl. My Dad noticed the impact it made on me too, and for my 7th birthday he painted my pink Barbie car black and stenciled a gold phoenix on the hood. 🖤
Great story! But being slightly older than you, and a good Catholic boy, and having grown up in the 60's watching Sally Field as the Flying Nun, I had a REALLY hard time seeing her as a 'sex symbol' in this movie in the beginning. Until she climbed over that seat back clearly displaying her magnificent ass-ets. ..Still a bit uneasy but.. WOW.😍😋 Hottest ex-nun I ever saw.😜 Petite is perfection.
I agree, Jackie Gleason made that movie. Not to discredit any of the other actors, but that movie wouldn't had had nearly as much success without Jackie.
I was a 70’s and 80’s kid, prolly seen Smoky and the Bandit early 80’s and loved it. Also as a kid loved the Dukes of Hazard and just now watching this video, realized I bet that show was based off of this movie. Duh?!?! :)
I was 16 when I sat in the theater and watched Burt drive that Trans Am out of the truck. At that moment me and everyone else wanted one. 40 years later one sits in my garage coming out in nice days. It’s an absolute blast! I call her “The way back machine”. RIP Burt
Probably the happiest movie ever made. Wonderful fun. I know Jerry Reeds guitar picking but the fact that he wrote the theme song in an hour is ridiculously gifted. The whole casting was perfect. Thank you Hal Needham.
I always thought the way Jerry wrote that...It sounded like a truck running up through the gears...you can hear the shift and then the RPM's revving up until the next shift...BRILLIANT!
@@bullbaylissMusic The Cannon Ball run films have too many participants to really develop the deep character and relationships between the "three" sides: Smokey, Cleetus and the Sheriff.
In our house these movies are known as "remote droppers". Smokey & The Bandit, The Blues Brothers, and we also add The Good The Bad and The Ugly to the list.
I was 8 years old and my dad took me to see it against my mom's wishes, Smokey & The Bandit and Star Wars from 1977 were two movies from my childhood that left the biggest impressions on me.
When Burt mentioned that the sales of Trans Ams went up 700% because of the popularity of 'Smokey and the Bandit' I just smiled and nodded my head knowing that I contributed to that number. Mine was a '79, fire engine red, 6.6 automatic and boy could that car move! Had it up to 150mph one night in North Carolina. Never saw telephone poles that close together in my life! Got a speeding ticket in every state on the East coast and even lost my license for 90 days in North Carolina, but not for the 150mph night. That's another story. Of all the cars I've owned in my lifetime, that's the one car I would love to have back. That's impossible now though because the person I sold it to wrecked it within three months of owning it. Breaks my heart to know that.
me too, although i had been a trans am fan since i saw my first one in 1973, my first car out of high school was a 78 chesterfield brown t/a 6.6 4 speed., could bury the speedo in 3rd gear, would give anything to have it back
My favourite film of all time!!..Me too..I owned a 77 T/A 6.6 in white during the 80’s & early 90’s..great times!!..see some footage of it on TH-cam under my id of Jamoblade which I uploaded sometime ago.
When that movie came out I was 10 years old and my family had just moved to Nashville from Baltimore MD. I knew nothing about country music or knew who any of the stars were. I was unaware that, "Mr. Jerry" from across the street was famous at all. he was the kindest, nicest man and neighbor. It wasn't until I saw this movie at a drive-in while visiting relatives in Canada that I connected the two. When Jerry Reed's character came on, I said, "That looks just like Mr. Jerry" RIP Mr. Jerry. You will be missed!
Ur a very lucky 🍀 man to not notice til you find out yourself! That’s really cool 😎!! I’ve wondered about Jerry Reid myself, what a great guitar 🎸 player he was!! Naturally talented. Amazing 🥲!! RIP to both iconic actors, Bert & Jerry!! Missed them a lot!😔🥲
I will always be transported every time I hear Eastbound And Down. Some of my favorite Actors, Players and Pickers, Songwriters, Comedians and Stuntmen!!!! It’s PERFECT!❤
Breaking the 4th wall is not done often, because it usually breaks the "spell" of the viewer's feeling that they are watching something happening on the screen. However, I think it somehow fit perfectly with the outrageous tongue-in-cheek comedic energy that Burt, Jackie and the others maintained on full-throttle throughout the entire film. Bandit was a self-proclaimed show-off, and when he looked at all of us, we knew he was showing-off for us too :)
My step-daughter and I had a bit of a rocky start to our relationship. I showed her Smokey and the bandit and it was the first time she sat and watched a whole movie with me. It’s still our favourite movie to watch together and we listen to the soundtrack in the car together regularly
Exact reason I next to never watch US Movies anymore - they are a template - predictable- boring - and yes full of forced down your throat political correctness
There will never be another movie as magical as this, you had it all in one film, cars, beer, women, comedy, 18 wheelers, country music. I was 6 the first time I ever watched it. Been my favorite ever since
I don't like country music, but jerry reed did an exellent job by writing a fast country song that makes you want to put the pedal to the metal and we all loved it.
I was around 5 years old when I seen it back in 77. It was an unforgettable experience, one of a few movies that has stayed with me my whole life. I still love this movie.
I'll never forget seeing this at the theater as a kid with my father. Great movie, very funny at the time, my father loved it and laughed throughout. Miss you Dad :(
Saw it in the summer of 77 in Richmond VA at age 12.. Since then I must have watched this movie at least 100 times. Greatest movie of all times....hands down. When other kids were watching Star Wars I was watching the Bandit and Snowman.
I was introduced to this movie at age 5. My uncle was a retired Navajo Nation police officer in the late 80’s. He told one of my cousins it was such a relatable movie for him. So when ever I play the soundtrack of the movie I’m brought back to summers spent at my aunt and uncles home. Movie nights were my favorite, I got to know my uncle through them.
The original 'Smokey and the Bandit' was essentially a 'B' movie meant for Drive-In's as the opening feature to other 'first-run' shows in 1977. The Mustang Drive-In near Peterborough, Ontario ran the movie for over 2 months as the featured film (the second movie to be shown nightly). The Mustang was the largest Drive-in theatre in Canada at the time, and lines of vehicles waiting to go through the temporary quadruple box office entrance spread in two directions. By the Provincial Police (who were doing traffic control nightly) it was estimated each line of cars was over a mile in length north and south. I lived in the rural subdivision where the Mustang was located, from early June to mid-August 1977 that line-up of Drive-in patrons stretched past my house (going north). My Dad finally took our family to see the movie at the Mustang (and to see what all the fuss was about) in the first week of August of that year, and the Drive-In was still at-near capacity. Smokey and the Bandit made history.
I was a senior in high school. When that black Trans Am rolled out, my head exploded. The greatest car entrance of all time. No one had seen one yet. Wow.
Hit in the US? I saw this in the movie theater in Poland and what a hit it was! At the age of 8 I was in love with that movie. Little did I know, that I would end up in US as a Kenworth 18 wheeler driver. :)
You are what makes the U.S.A. GREAT! People from all over the Planet Earth live here & every country should join in with us & make the Earth UNITED with our basic FREEDOMS! United for the FIRST TIME in Earths HISTORY would be WONDERFUL!!
In the eighties I rode my motorcycle across Poland. I stayed at a small hotel in Katowice Smokey And The Bandit was playing at the theater a block down. I have always regretted not watching the movie in Polish.
@@tlt3921 WOW! That's a cool story man! 80s in Poland, man, that was the height of communism! If you had some western motorcycle, everyone was looking at you probably like you were a celebrity! :) Now Poland is a different world. Beautiful country! Oh, and as far as the movie, you have nothing to regret. Western movies in the theaters back then had only subtitles in Polish, so you would be listening to southern American english. :) Only when the movie made it to the TV screens, it had vocal translations.
As a retired Truckdriver, 50 yrs (accident free) on the roads, back in the day when this movie came out, the song became a drivers National Anthem. The CB craze was starting and this movie just boosted it alone. It wasn't many late night, or early mornings you would hear the song "Eastbound & Down" blasting over the CB, to keep the driver singing it to stay awake.
Late seventies and when the films came out it blew up with cb good buddy. We got a Smokey bear in the air and I'm tail grabbing your ass come on. 1010 and I'm gone.
@@darrenhirst9900 l remember as a kid in the 80s, my dad had a CB in his car and all l could think of to say is “radio check” meaning can someone let me know if they can hear me.
@@Paul77ozee I was a teenager in the 80's too. I had the illegal am radio before I got the FM radio. My dad had one in his truck and he bought me one so he could tell me he was on his way home. I can hear you good Buddy. I'm 1010 on the side and I'm gone.
Seriously??? 😄 He knew how to make it memorable when He did show up. 😃 Forever lasting. All the movies he could have chosen and he picked two legendary flicks Couldn’t know they’d turn out to be all time, unforgettable flicks. Nice 👍
I love how Burt got stiffed by GM and didn’t get his Trans Am, but he still went out and bought one. He must have really liked that car. That’s awesome
Awesome, yes, but I really think GM fucked up on that one - BIG time. I mean, we're talking ONE free car, when the movie has made sales of that car increase by 700% or so.... GM sucks. They could not even give away ONE car, to the star of the movie that fucking MADE that car the success it was. Fucking accountants.....
Watched this movie with my grand-father, my dad, then my friends back in school. Now I watch it with my son and I get to re-live it all over again. Hearing my son's laughter watching it for the first time was priceless!
My dad was the director of photography on this movie! Bobby Byrne! He passed away on 3-9-2017 ( RIP dad) and my stepmom gave me the clap board for this movie! My dad didn’t like to many people in Hollywood, but he liked Burt.
@@bullbaylissMusic I know! I have a lot of pictures ! I even have the script and I have a 2 more clap boards, “ The best little whore house in Texas” and “Sixteen Candles.” I was very proud of my dad. I miss him very much. He kept me and my sisters away from Hollywood, and now as I’m older I understand why. I was 17 when he finally let me come on to a movie set he was working on . It was “ Paternity” starring Burt, I met Burt and Sally Fields ( they we’re dating at the time) and a few other stars, but I was most nervous meeting Henry Winkler ! I was a huge Fonzi fan!
One of the funniest and most entertaining films of all time, love the cars, trucks and the banter in this great piece of comedy entertainment. RIP Burt, Jackie and Jerry, still watching and laughing guys!
The movie of my childhood! And I still can watch it 40 years later, having the same fun and find nothing that is wrong about it. Its indeed a timeless classic!
Yes, it's a classic. Something else--not mentioned here--Jerry Reed brought something else to America....how it was to be an old school trucker. I grew up in the business. When I was a child, in the sixties, I used to go on truck runs with my father. I knew all the CB lingo and many drivers' handles. Cletes Snow (Jerry Reed) plays the part perfectly. Makes me feel nostalgic-missing those days.
My dad drove trucks as well as his brother, and I loved talking on his CB to my cousin that was riding with his dad. I learned the the CB lingo real easy. I talk on a CB, and a HAM radio today!!
@@bullbaylissMusic I'm not surprised...Cell phones pretty well killed them off to the regular consumer..I still know how to wire them up, set the SWR(standing wave ratio) right, and still own 3 or 4...My favorite mobile raditio is a Teaberry Stalker T, Upper and Lower Sideband, turned up and cut loose and modified to get up to channel 40(old 23 channel raditio), my favorite base unit is a Cobra 139, Upper and Lower Sideband, turned up and cut loose, modified with a crystalite box to go up to channel 40
Great casting, great script and ad-libbing, great story, great characters, great chemistry, one of those rare gems that is timeless and makes you laugh no matter how many times you see it!
Had the privilege of meeting Burt 5 years ago at Super mega fest in Massachusetts! I waited 2 hours in line and met a gracious,down to earth guy. He signed a replica Bandit plate from the trans am, a Smokey & The Bandit poster, and a die cast car for me. I treasure them he will forever be “ The Bandit”
I loved the movie growing up, and I'm still enjoying it today! We just watched the movie for free on TH-cam. This documentary was great, having just watched the movie. I didn't know how talented Jerry Reed really was.
Smokey and the Bandit will live on for eternity. It’s sad we have to say good bye to so many famous actors we watched as kids. Smokey and the Bandit, Star Wars, and Rocky III were the most amazing movies for me as a kid.
One of the biggest memories of my childhood was this movie. Was 8 when it came out, 9 years later I bought my first car, a '79 Trans Am. Man, what I wouldn't do to go back in time for 1 day
I remember watching this with my grandpa back in the mid 80's when I was a kid. He loved Jackie Gleason and laughed fit to split at his one liners, especially when he said "They should have cremated the Sumbitch!" What memories. This movie is one of the greatest of all time!
I was 10 years old in 1977 and my dad took me to see Smokey & The Bandit (at the Farmington Civic for those Michiganders out there) not because it starred Burt Reynolds but because it featured Jackie Gleason. Looking back, I think he regretted it just a bit due to the profanity and his desire to shield his son from it (similar to when Sheriff Justice says, “I have my young son in the car and I don’t want to hear that kind of language”). My dad was Jackie’s biggest fan and he went to see every one of his movies. The funny thing is that my dad laughed so hard that many times I couldn’t hear the next line including the profanity. His laughter was the best censor for me and everyone in the 2 rows in front and behind us. I write this with tears in my eyes because I wish they were all still here: Jackie, Burt, Jerry and my dad.
I was 10 years old when it came out also. My father took me to see it as well, but because he was a Burt fanatic since he had watched part of the filming of White Lighting. He took me to see anything Burt was in for the rest of his life.
I was born in 67, funny, the exact same thing, When Bufford let loose, My dad looked at me worried, but I was laughing so hard, we made it through the whole show, Never have I and Dad had so much fun in a movie.
Such a classic movie. Unsure how the latest generation would view it - but when I watch it now (watched it last night for the first time in decades) I was shocked how damn funny it still is. Jackie was a beast! I'm so glad he did this movie.
I’m apart of the new generation and it’s my all time favorite movie sometimes I wish I was around to experience what it was like doing the height of CB Culture
BEST MOVIE EVER!!!! PERIOD!!! I have only watched it 3067 times, AND, drove a Black 83 trans am WITH T-tops to my hight school prom! Life is, was good!
I was a little kid living in England when this came out and I loved it as soon as I saw it. Fastforward to now and I'm a 47-year old bloke, still living in england, and I STILL love this film! Whenever I stumble upon it on the TV I drop whatever I'm doing and watch it again, feeling like that little kid again from all those years ago, just for a little while.
I saw this movie when I was 10 years old. From that moment on, I knew I wanted to drive tractor trailers. I bought my first tractor when I was 22 and made a career as an owner-operator. The first song I listened to in my Peterbilt was Eastbound and Down! Great memories!
One of the most fun movies ever made. This movie propelled me to buy a Trans-Am in 1978. Not a new one, at around 10 grand I think, couldn't afford it. A used one, a '71 white with blue stripe for 4 grand. Used musclecars where very cheap at the time, compared to today.
Those are so cool i remember the 455s i loved the older ones i was in highschool then all could afford was a 71 camaro that i fixed up but the year after highschool i got a 77 T/A because this guy sold it cheap and it ran perfect only needed a few very minor things like a window motor and i worked at a GM dealer so i got a discount on parts and got them installed for a couple bears haha good ol days!
When that movie came out I told my father that one day I would own one.....when the time came..drove one but the tops my feet kept hitting the lower portion of the dash/column area....its really tight and its not like I have gigantic feet, pretty average. Dont know if it was that model of TA or if they are all like that.
One of the greatest songwriters who ever lived. Truly a man of many talents. He was great in Phantom of the Paradise, and wonderfully funny as Little Enos in Smokey & the Bandit.
I still remember watching this at a small community hall on The Sunshine Coast, Queensland as a young kid. I thought it was the best thing I’d ever seen! It still rates very highly, over 40 years later.
Parts were filmed in McDonough Georgia near where my grandparents lived. The guy who owned the restaurant Snowman got beat up at was given a couple of the run over motorcycles. He had great food. Most iconic movie I can think of , besides Star Wars!😉
Parts were also filmed in and around Jonesboro GA. The beer load up was in the tiny downtown of Jonesboro, baseball field was close by too. All part of my childhood growing up in the mid seventies. Wish now I would have skipped some school to watch them film some of the movie. Still remember all the skid marks and burnouts left on the country roads in and around the area where I grew up.
It's simply the kind of movie you can pop into your DVD player any time you're having a crappy day and make you feel like a million bucks. So few movies really do that, especially now. I've watched so many times I lost count.
The best word to describe this movie is FUN. When you watch it you can see that everybody had so much fun making it. No wonder they went on and made another 'Smokey' movie and 'The Cannonball Run'. Twice.
Burt & Dom DeLouese became good buddies & did The End. S&TB2, & Cannonball Run together. Dom talks about "Swamp Fever" in both 2 above mentioned movies. Terry Bradshaw also stars in both of them.
Excellent entertainment for the whole family. Young boys loved Sally. Mom's loved Burt. Grandparents loved Gleason. Country music lovers loved Jerry. Everybody loved Paul williams.
Same here Convoy #1 followed by bandit, vanishing point new and old, white line fever, any which was but loose, gone in 60sec. Etc, etc. All the old movie from westerns, to car chases.
I saw this movie as a 12 year old at the local drive in. During intermission I was shocked to run into my grandmother and her sister. They loved it too!
As we live through the decline of the American empire, its good to look back and see what once was. This movie represents the absolute peak of our civilization.
All do respect and I do love the movie SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT but there is another movie,BULLETT with Steve McQueen.It was the very first car scene/chase that hit the screen,movie came out in the 1960's,late 60's.
@@craigbosko2229 Ummm...no....it wasn't "the very first car scene/chase that hit the screen". Far from it....it was a great, intense chase scene but many had come before it (although none probably done as well up to that point).
My mum brought me the video of this when I was 4. Its been my favourite film ever since. Especially as my Dads a truck driver and we've always had Basset hounds as pets. This film is just a masterpiece!!
Paul Williams had one of the funniest lines in the movie, and it's one that doesn't get too much attention; it's the exchange at the start between Big and Little Enos and Bandit where he tries to insult him, where Bandit says, "Why don't you just say something nasty about my mother?" and without missing a beat, Little Enos starts with, "Your momma is so ugly, that.." and gets cut off before the payoff. It's just classic.
My Dad took me to see Smokey And The Bandit when it first came out, I was 14 years old, we laughed so hard through the whole movie, truly one of the best days of my life, and still my favorite movie after all of these years!
I can recall seeing this movie as if it was yesterday! 11 years old and sitting on the roof of my parents 1968 caprice station wagon at the drive-in… Rest in peace Jerry, Jackie, Bert! Thanks for the laughs and memories
That's a great video with tons of super interviews. Also, East Bound and Down should have gotten an Oscar for music in a film, that song is so damn perfect, still blows me away 40+ years later. Glad Hal and Burt touched on that slightly botched stunt when the Bonneville got clipped by the semi. That shot is incredibly visceral and thrilling. No CGI, that's for sure.
Yeap, Jerry was one hell of a talented “swingin lil guitar man” 😉 It’s pure luck no one got killed during the making! 😅 First movie I ever seen, and it was while I stood in the back seat of our ‘69 dodge charger 500 at the outdoor movie theatre.
I remember watching this movie, Smokey and the Bandit with my dad when i was 13,14 years old and to this day, i can still hear my dad laughing his ass off, we both did. One of the best times i ever had with my father was watching this movie. My dad passed in 1986, and now im 58 years old. But one of the best movies to ever hit the big screen, could not have found a better cast than Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed and Sally Field. Thank you for making SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT
Sorry for your loss, he must have been an ace dad. I watched this with my father and also laughed so much making many memories He also has passed away too early
My son and I just saw this in the movie theater a couple of weeks ago. He had never saw it on the big screen and just loved it evenmore. We just laughed at the same jokes over and over. Just had a blast!
I remember it being a rainy Chicago Saturday afternoon. Little league canceled. Sox and Cubs game both canceled. I turned on the TV and this literally was just starting. Sucked me right in. I wanna say 1988 ....
" Because he's thirsty, Dummy." Might be the best line in film history. Either that or, "Any guy that would paint his truck like this would go to a minister's funeral dressed in feathers..." Lmfao for eternity...
That Movie will Never Get Old! Pure Magic
I know right.
I'm going to be real for a sec. I was a little Black boy living in Oakland Ca, and loved that movie like no other. I have watched that movie more times than I can remember. I never noticed the confederate flag on that car until I saw someone complaining about it a couple years ago. Let me tell you this. I didn't care about it then, and I don't care about it now. I will still sit back and watch that movie with the same joy In my heart as if I was a kid. Those who never watched, and complained couldn't see every race helping the Bandit, frog who is very beautiful, and the infamous Snowman! CGI action movies today can't touch the real action and stunt scenes, and the comedic genius of Jackie. When I got old enough, and funds was good enough. You damn right I bought me a Trans Am!
I loved the funny banter of the guys in the hearse.
You Rock! To most people back then, that flag just represented the south, nothing more.
@@st7728 Exactly
Spot on same here Black man here Burt was no Racist he was a Legit Southern boy that was Solid worked with Jim Brown and made the production hire a black stunt man Burt paid $500 out his pocket , 99 Rifles ... He is Missed
awesome story sir
This movie couldn't have been done any better and will never be repeated.
I hope they never remake this film.
@@stephenowens3687 they never would now - gen Z would have a meltdown...
Unfortunately.
@@stephenowens3687 I hope they try. Can you imagine what flop it'd be with all the PC woke boxes they'd have to check off to avoid offending/excluding anyone? 🤣🤣🤣
You are correct sir, as they proved with the sequels..... 😅
I will never stop watching this movie...Born in 1966
1968!✌
1982 🤘🏻
That Trans Am is STILL sexier than half the cars being made today.
Half? I'd say all of them! Today's look-alike cars are puke ugly.
@@gregb6469 I agree, no matter what brand, they're cookie cutter, all the same, no style.
@@rickmiller1429 And no soul.
Always liked the car never new it was slow
@@bullbaylissMusic a 11 fiesta can pick up speed in last cog
You can keep "The Fast and the Furious". 1 man, 1 car, 1 truck, 1 load, 1 mission.
You missed 1 dog.
A B S O L U T E L Y
Also you missed one girl
Couldn’t agree more 👍🏻😀
We’ve got a long way too go and a short time to get there.
I became a truck driver as a result of seeing this movie when I was 11years old. I have been driving for 33 years now, own my truck and trailer, and have owned a black trans am… thanks for the memories!
So wasn't Convoy that made you become a truckie ?
@@shenysys I would have to say no, but I did like the black Mack, lol.
I wanted to be one too, but never made it... still love to drive cross country. My dad did too. And now so do my children. We take two trips a year .. week to a fortnight long. Things have changed a lot but if you keep to State routes, old country roads, small towns; it is still fun. Rte 66, Rte 60, Rte 1...
Song you might like from the late Slim Dusty.
th-cam.com/video/et6wYjECxUA/w-d-xo.html
Lights on the hill is also the name of the Truckie's memorial in Australia.
lightsonthehill.com.au/
Thanks to all those who made this film possible. This is a classic and one of the best films made, period.
Pure entertainment. That's what it's all about.
I remember my father taking me to see this in the theatre. He laughed like hell every time Jackie Gleason opened his mouth. I still watch this movie today as a 53 year-old man and remember those good times.
That is so fantastic lol
I can really imagine a lot of people crying with laughter at those great lines
Amazing profit
I didn't get to see this is the theater with Dad, but to the day he died he would laugh until tears came...he just LOVED the line, "there is NO WAY you sprang from my loins, boy"...I'm about to turn 50 and I don't miss a chance to see this or canonball run
That’s my favorite line also. Sorry your dad is no longer with you.
Sounds like you have great memories of the man
I saw with my Dad at a drive-in, 59 currently and yeah, Dad laughed a ton too.
By Burt looking into the camera, he pulled the audience right into the movie with them all and made us part of it. Genius move.
"I find it hard to look at you, Wynette ..."
@@RideAcrossTheRiver "Especially when you got those things in your hair" 😆
I think it was more a 2 fingers up to the arch rule of acting !
@@Scottocaster6668 "Makes me think you're tuned into a radio station in Savannah"
@@robertlund5694 It was Hal Needham's idea!
"Eastbound and Down" was the last song my Pops and I ever got to listen to together. Thank you Jerry Reed.
He had great taste in music.
@@ericdraven7185 both Jerry and my Pops. Yes. Thank you. I have him in my garage now. And often listen to anything from 50s to 70s country, soul, rock. Just keeps me closer to him and reminds me of the good times.
That song still raises the hairs on the back of my neck. Just such a punchy great song!!!! Truly a piece of Americana!!! A classic still to this day!
I see the fact that he wrote it in an hour as Devine providence, as I see the whole movie.
What an epic tune for sure
I was 2 months shy of my 7th birthday when my Mom took me to see this masterpiece.
Seeing Sally's tomboy nature celebrated instead of shamed was a BIG moment for that 6 year old girl. My Dad noticed the impact it made on me too, and for my 7th birthday he painted my pink Barbie car black and stenciled a gold phoenix on the hood. 🖤
Fantastic
You had a good Dad.
For sure
Great story! But being slightly older than you, and a good Catholic boy, and having grown up in the 60's watching Sally Field as the Flying Nun, I had a REALLY hard time seeing her as a 'sex symbol' in this movie in the beginning. Until she climbed over that seat back clearly displaying her magnificent ass-ets. ..Still a bit uneasy but.. WOW.😍😋 Hottest ex-nun I ever saw.😜 Petite is perfection.
Ha ha this made me laugh. Excellent
Buford T. Justice was the movie and nobody else but Jackie Gleason could have played that role. Period.
Absolutely. NOBODY but JG could do it "Justice"
Nobody…he was made for that role and played it to perfection.
I agree, Jackie Gleason made that movie. Not to discredit any of the other actors, but that movie wouldn't had had nearly as much success without Jackie.
I was a 70’s and 80’s kid, prolly seen Smoky and the Bandit early 80’s and loved it. Also as a kid loved the Dukes of Hazard and just now watching this video, realized I bet that show was based off of this movie. Duh?!?! :)
@@MrOffshore idk, I bet Boss Hogg was based off of Buford!
CB radios,Coors beer,Burt Reynolds and a black Trans Am….still a classic…Thank you Burt..RIP
And Sally Field then Sally Field again then Colleen Camp.
@@Wildstar40 And then Jerry Reed (Snowman) became the Bandit himself after all.
Originally had the part of the bandit and then officially played the part in part 3
@@bullbaylissMusic Burt appears in a cameo at the end as the original bandit , which her was.
Nice
I was 16 when I sat in the theater and watched Burt drive that Trans Am out of the truck. At that moment me and everyone else wanted one. 40 years later one sits in my garage coming out in nice days. It’s an absolute blast! I call her “The way back machine”. RIP Burt
That’s awesome that you own one
Nice. I'd love to own one but people want stupid money for them.
Makes me so sad to see a lot of these great people are already gone.
For sure. All my hero’s are Disappearing
Agreed but the movie is over 40 years old now.
Frog .. little Enes. Only one's left 😢
Jesus saves
@@bullbaylissMusic same, bro.
Probably the happiest movie ever made. Wonderful fun. I know Jerry Reeds guitar picking but the fact that he wrote the theme song in an hour is ridiculously gifted. The whole casting was perfect. Thank you Hal Needham.
This and cannon ball run films
I always thought the way Jerry wrote that...It sounded like a truck running up through the gears...you can hear the shift and then the RPM's revving up until the next shift...BRILLIANT!
Nice
@@bullbaylissMusic The Cannon Ball run films have too many participants to really develop the deep character and relationships between the "three" sides: Smokey, Cleetus and the Sheriff.
45 minutes
Dang, life was so much simpler then... Next to the Blues Brothers, I'll always stop and watch no matter where its at during the movie....😁😂🤣
Man, I love the Blues Brothers, I'll watch them anytime, anywhere they come on...
we got older and the world went crazy
In our house these movies are known as "remote droppers". Smokey & The Bandit, The Blues Brothers, and we also add The Good The Bad and The Ugly to the list.
Fantastic list
Cannon ball films
Burt looking into the camera and smiling was brilliant because it allowed the audience to be part of the fun , a classic film 👍👍
Exactly
He broke the 4th wall for us.
He did indeed
Such a great movie
The building in that shot was a police station. It's no longer there.
As a 70's kid this and Convoy seemed cool. I got my CDL because of these movies.
Brilliant
This movie has inspired so so many people
@@alisterfolson Same here, with the addition of Claude Akins and B.J. McKay.
I was 8 years old and my dad took me to see it against my mom's wishes, Smokey & The Bandit and Star Wars from 1977 were two movies from my childhood that left the biggest impressions on me.
So true, that’s when I realized I wished I was born in the south
You and me both 👍
Me three!
I was 9 when my dad took me to see it.
That n Star Wars. Better n simpler times
Burt is the ONLY one who could look directly in that camera, a terrible taboo back then, and made it work perfectly
Remaking the 4th wall... and I remember that back in the day... how he outran the cop and hid behind the building...
One of my absolutely favorite scenes!! Of course, as the owner of a Bandit Trans Am, that whole scene is awesome!
Tom Selleck aka Thomas Magnum pulled that off too. Maybe its a mustache thing.
Ollie from Laurel & Hardy did it as well if not even better almost 50 years prior (hey...he had a mustache too!!).
Likely the inspiration for Ferris Bueller lol
Better than any other car movie…ever!
I always liked the Truck more. It had more style than the car
I Need a Speedy Car ...Speeder than that ...
For 30 years or so, then gone in 60 seconds came out
@@hushmoney2058 hello hush how are you doing today?
@@hushmoney2058 💐🌹
I have seen a lot of longer more in depth documentary’s on Smokey & the Bandit but this is my favourite, thanks for uploading it
When Burt mentioned that the sales of Trans Ams went up 700% because of the popularity of 'Smokey and the Bandit' I just smiled and nodded my head knowing that I contributed to that number. Mine was a '79, fire engine red, 6.6 automatic and boy could that car move! Had it up to 150mph one night in North Carolina. Never saw telephone poles that close together in my life! Got a speeding ticket in every state on the East coast and even lost my license for 90 days in North Carolina, but not for the 150mph night. That's another story. Of all the cars I've owned in my lifetime, that's the one car I would love to have back. That's impossible now though because the person I sold it to wrecked it within three months of owning it. Breaks my heart to know that.
me too, although i had been a trans am fan since i saw my first one in 1973, my first car out of high school was a 78 chesterfield brown t/a 6.6 4 speed., could bury the speedo in 3rd gear, would give anything to have it back
My uncle went in and bought one cash money afterwards
I owned one too.
I agree, could kick myself too.....black with that big ass phoenix/eagle on the hood. Fast car too.
My favourite film of all time!!..Me too..I owned a 77 T/A 6.6 in white during the 80’s & early 90’s..great times!!..see some footage of it on TH-cam under my id of Jamoblade which I uploaded sometime ago.
Yeah it took me until 1988 to get my 1979 Black T/A
When that movie came out I was 10 years old and my family had just moved to Nashville from Baltimore MD. I knew nothing about country music or knew who any of the stars were. I was unaware that, "Mr. Jerry" from across the street was famous at all. he was the kindest, nicest man and neighbor. It wasn't until I saw this movie at a drive-in while visiting relatives in Canada that I connected the two. When Jerry Reed's character came on, I said, "That looks just like Mr. Jerry" RIP Mr. Jerry. You will be missed!
You lived across the street from one of the most talented guys ever. WOW!
Amazing
Ur a very lucky 🍀 man to not notice til you find out yourself! That’s really cool 😎!! I’ve wondered about Jerry Reid myself, what a great guitar 🎸 player he was!! Naturally talented. Amazing 🥲!! RIP to both iconic actors, Bert & Jerry!! Missed them a lot!😔🥲
He was a quick wit. Loved his guitar playing.
@@michaeljulian4997 You lived across the street from Mr. Hubbard 😉😉
I can't tell you how many times I've seen this movie and just how great of a movie I think it is. RIP Burt Reynolds.
So many gone and missed
Same here!
I will always be transported every time I hear Eastbound And Down. Some of my favorite Actors, Players and Pickers, Songwriters, Comedians and Stuntmen!!!!
It’s PERFECT!❤
One of those rare movies where the chemistry between E-VE-RY actor, no matter if it was a small or big role, was 99,999999999999999999999% perfect.
Awesome casting all the way around!
@@MrOffshore And a witty script!
You can't drive this piece o S**T on my highway . One of the best scenes . Haha
@@drundub73 is still trying to get better!!
Breaking the 4th wall is not done often, because it usually breaks the "spell" of the viewer's feeling that they are watching something happening on the screen. However, I think it somehow fit perfectly with the outrageous tongue-in-cheek comedic energy that Burt, Jackie and the others maintained on full-throttle throughout the entire film. Bandit was a self-proclaimed show-off, and when he looked at all of us, we knew he was showing-off for us too :)
Agree
That is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. The way Burt slowly comes into focus and smiles “yeah, I’m a badass”. Pure genius
Epic
One of my favorite childhood movies.
R.I.P. Burt, Jerry, and Jackie
Yea, mine too for sure. Extremely entertaining and funny.
Don’t forget Pat McCormick Big Enos!
My step-daughter and I had a bit of a rocky start to our relationship. I showed her Smokey and the bandit and it was the first time she sat and watched a whole movie with me. It’s still our favourite movie to watch together and we listen to the soundtrack in the car together regularly
This whole cast was so fantastic. A once in a lifetime movie. Burt, Sally, Jackie, Jerry, Big and Little Enos.
You missed out Fred!
"You know daddy, a legend and an out of work bum look a whole lot alike."
One of the best lines in movie history. Thanks Paul.
Ha hav
When movies were not made to deliver a political message. When they were made to entertain and this movie entertained us like hell.
Exact reason I next to never watch US Movies anymore - they are a template - predictable- boring - and yes full of forced down your throat political correctness
Best road movie ever and i watch him ad least two times a year.🎬🎥 Greetings from the Netherlands
There will never be another movie as magical as this, you had it all in one film, cars, beer, women, comedy, 18 wheelers, country music.
I was 6 the first time I ever watched it. Been my favorite ever since
Same
I was 5
Dad bought me the soundtrack on 8-track
I don't like country music, but jerry reed did an exellent job by writing a fast country song that makes you want to put the pedal to the metal
and we all loved it.
I was around 5 years old when I seen it back in 77. It was an unforgettable experience, one of a few movies that has stayed with me my whole life. I still love this movie.
Cannonball run movies are pretty good.
Same here buddy. I was 6 when it came out. It kick started my fascination with cars that has never gone away.
I'll never forget seeing this at the theater as a kid with my father. Great movie, very funny at the time, my father loved it and laughed throughout. Miss you Dad :(
Saw it in the summer of 77 in Richmond VA at age 12.. Since then I must have watched this movie at least 100 times. Greatest movie of all times....hands down. When other kids were watching Star Wars I was watching the Bandit and Snowman.
Saw it with my dad, God rest his soul, Gleason brought tears to his eyes he was laughing so hard. Great memory.
M@@2laughandlaugh
Same here. Saw it with dad I was 11 we saw it again recently on Turner movie classics he's now 88 Im 55 where does the time go......
@@yukonjack. agreed.
I was introduced to this movie at age 5. My uncle was a retired Navajo Nation police officer in the late 80’s. He told one of my cousins it was such a relatable movie for him. So when ever I play the soundtrack of the movie I’m brought back to summers spent at my aunt and uncles home. Movie nights were my favorite, I got to know my uncle through them.
Nice.
The original 'Smokey and the Bandit' was essentially a 'B' movie meant for Drive-In's as the opening feature to other 'first-run' shows in 1977. The Mustang Drive-In near Peterborough, Ontario ran the movie for over 2 months as the featured film (the second movie to be shown nightly). The Mustang was the largest Drive-in theatre in Canada at the time, and lines of vehicles waiting to go through the temporary quadruple box office entrance spread in two directions. By the Provincial Police (who were doing traffic control nightly) it was estimated each line of cars was over a mile in length north and south. I lived in the rural subdivision where the Mustang was located, from early June to mid-August 1977 that line-up of Drive-in patrons stretched past my house (going north). My Dad finally took our family to see the movie at the Mustang (and to see what all the fuss was about) in the first week of August of that year, and the Drive-In was still at-near capacity. Smokey and the Bandit made history.
Nice information there for sure
You didn't say......did YOU like it?
@@joenwc It was an awesome flick, lots of action, wild car chases and full-on hilarious. A film that was 'outside the box' for its day.
Very cool!
It was essential an independent film. That's why it worked. They didn't have studio executives ruining their art
I was a senior in high school. When that black Trans Am rolled out, my head exploded. The greatest car entrance of all time. No one had seen one yet. Wow.
Damn. That must have been so great
No movie made was funnier than this one!
Hit in the US? I saw this in the movie theater in Poland and what a hit it was! At the age of 8 I was in love with that movie. Little did I know, that I would end up in US as a Kenworth 18 wheeler driver. :)
You are what makes the U.S.A. GREAT! People from all over the Planet Earth live here & every country should join in with us & make the Earth UNITED with our basic FREEDOMS! United for the FIRST TIME in Earths HISTORY would be WONDERFUL!!
In the eighties I rode my motorcycle across Poland. I stayed at a small hotel in Katowice
Smokey And The Bandit was playing at the theater a block down. I have always regretted not watching the movie in Polish.
@@tlt3921 WOW! That's a cool story man! 80s in Poland, man, that was the height of communism! If you had some western motorcycle, everyone was looking at you probably like you were a celebrity! :) Now Poland is a different world. Beautiful country! Oh, and as far as the movie, you have nothing to regret. Western movies in the theaters back then had only subtitles in Polish, so you would be listening to southern American english. :) Only when the movie made it to the TV screens, it had vocal translations.
Crazy
Definitely should’ve watched it Although I have many similar stories
As a retired Truckdriver, 50 yrs (accident free) on the roads, back in the day when this movie came out, the song became a drivers National Anthem. The CB craze was starting and this movie just boosted it alone. It wasn't many late night, or early mornings you would hear the song "Eastbound & Down" blasting over the CB, to keep the driver singing it to stay awake.
Nice mate. You should listen to Jimmy Barnes song Driving Wheels. Another great song that’s about truck drivers.
Late seventies and when the films came out it blew up with cb good buddy.
We got a Smokey bear in the air and I'm tail grabbing your ass come on.
1010 and I'm gone.
50 years on the road , no accidents , you’re name must be Erling Bertelsen!
@@darrenhirst9900 l remember as a kid in the 80s, my dad had a CB in his car and all l could think of to say is “radio check” meaning can someone let me know if they can hear me.
@@Paul77ozee I was a teenager in the 80's too.
I had the illegal am radio before I got the FM radio.
My dad had one in his truck and he bought me one so he could tell me he was on his way home.
I can hear you good Buddy. I'm 1010 on the side and I'm gone.
Saw it in the movie theater as an 8 year old…totally remember Burt Reynolds smiling at the camera and thinking what just happened that was so cool!
My dad who I didn't know showed up twice
Took me to blazing saddles
Took me to smokie and the bandit
Thanks dad
Seriously??? 😄
He knew how to make it memorable when He did show up. 😃
Forever lasting.
All the movies he could have chosen and he picked two legendary flicks
Couldn’t know they’d turn out to be all time, unforgettable flicks.
Nice 👍
@@CSDonohue11 tried to take me to Fritz the cat they said gtf outa here
Hell yeah .. life as it is !!!!!!
Both legendary movies
I love how Burt got stiffed by GM and didn’t get his Trans Am, but he still went out and bought one. He must have really liked that car. That’s awesome
Awesome, yes, but I really think GM fucked up on that one - BIG time. I mean, we're talking ONE free car, when the movie has made sales of that car increase by 700% or so....
GM sucks. They could not even give away ONE car, to the star of the movie that fucking MADE that car the success it was. Fucking accountants.....
I think GM gave him five Trans Am which he gave to friends and relatives but on the sixth year he called and they cut him off.
@@davesworld7961, by then the greedy unions at GM were turning out so much junk that Burt probably could have sued them for attempted murder!
They should have given him one - this way they would still be making them today for sure
GM is here but not for long! Pontiac is gone!
Watched this movie with my grand-father, my dad, then my friends back in school. Now I watch it with my son and I get to re-live it all over again. Hearing my son's laughter watching it for the first time was priceless!
A must for every Bandit-fan. However I'm having hard time to believe Buford only needed two cars. The mechanics must have been skilled!
Real skilled
My dad was the director of photography on this movie! Bobby Byrne! He passed away on 3-9-2017 ( RIP dad) and my stepmom gave me the clap board for this movie! My dad didn’t like to many people in Hollywood, but he liked Burt.
@@bullbaylissMusic I know! I have a lot of pictures ! I even have the script and I have a 2 more clap boards, “ The best little whore house in Texas” and “Sixteen Candles.” I was very proud of my dad. I miss him very much. He kept me and my sisters away from Hollywood, and now as I’m older I understand why. I was 17 when he finally let me come on to a movie set he was working on . It was “ Paternity” starring Burt, I met Burt and Sally Fields ( they we’re dating at the time) and a few other stars, but I was most nervous meeting Henry Winkler ! I was a huge Fonzi fan!
This is still so cool and I’m so jealous
@@dianebyrne9846 great story.
I get THAT! Burt was still that good ole boy, Total Americana captured on film thanks to your POP! Bless you and Yours!
That is so cool but my Dad was a truck driver.
One of the funniest and most entertaining films of all time, love the cars, trucks and the banter in this great piece of comedy entertainment.
RIP Burt, Jackie and Jerry, still watching and laughing guys!
Totally agree with all of that
I'm 52 and a Yankee... and I still watch and LOVE this movie. I always say it was one of the films that educated me into sarcasm.
The movie of my childhood! And I still can watch it 40 years later, having the same fun and find nothing that is wrong about it. Its indeed a timeless classic!
Absolutely agree such a great watch
Yes, it's a classic. Something else--not mentioned here--Jerry Reed brought something else to America....how it was to be an old school trucker. I grew up in the business. When I was a child, in the sixties, I used to go on truck runs with my father. I knew all the CB lingo and many drivers' handles. Cletes Snow (Jerry Reed) plays the part perfectly. Makes me feel nostalgic-missing those days.
God Bless Kimmy The same name as My Cuz, from Kansas!
Thats cool
My dad drove trucks as well as his brother, and I loved talking on his CB to my cousin that was riding with his dad. I learned the the CB lingo real easy. I talk on a CB, and a HAM radio today!!
No c b people left here
@@bullbaylissMusic I'm not surprised...Cell phones pretty well killed them off to the regular consumer..I still know how to wire them up, set the SWR(standing wave ratio) right, and still own 3 or 4...My favorite mobile raditio is a Teaberry Stalker T, Upper and Lower Sideband, turned up and cut loose and modified to get up to channel 40(old 23 channel raditio), my favorite base unit is a Cobra 139, Upper and Lower Sideband, turned up and cut loose, modified with a crystalite box to go up to channel 40
Great casting, great script and ad-libbing, great story, great characters, great chemistry, one of those rare gems that is timeless and makes you laugh no matter how many times you see it!
Spot on
Had the privilege of meeting Burt 5 years ago at Super mega fest in Massachusetts! I waited 2 hours in line and met a gracious,down to earth guy. He signed a replica Bandit plate from the trans am, a Smokey & The Bandit poster, and a die cast car for me.
I treasure them he will forever be
“ The Bandit”
I have osteoarthritis in both knees and I stood for 2 hours to meet him I will never forget it
That’s fricken awesome.
Those are Bad @$$ without the auto and the experience
That only makes it even BETTER !
awesome !
I loved the movie growing up, and I'm still enjoying it today! We just watched the movie for free on TH-cam. This documentary was great, having just watched the movie. I didn't know how talented Jerry Reed really was.
Wow I've seen this movie hundreds of times and never gets old , and now I've shown it to my kids and they love it too ..
That’s awesome. I’m sure when they are 50 they will be watching still and showing to their next generation too
Smokey and the Bandit will live on for eternity. It’s sad we have to say good bye to so many famous actors we watched as kids. Smokey and the Bandit, Star Wars, and Rocky III were the most amazing movies for me as a kid.
I know what you mean can’t believe how many child heroes are gone.
Also Saturday Night Fever And Grease And XANADU!!
One of the biggest memories of my childhood was this movie. Was 8 when it came out, 9 years later I bought my first car, a '79 Trans Am. Man, what I wouldn't do to go back in time for 1 day
That would be superb
I have a black trans am in my garage right now.
Absolutely stunning
I remember watching this with my grandpa back in the mid 80's when I was a kid. He loved Jackie Gleason and laughed fit to split at his one liners, especially when he said "They should have cremated the Sumbitch!" What memories. This movie is one of the greatest of all time!
Brilliant character brilliant lines
"If They Would've Cremated The Stupid Stiff, I Would've Been Parading Mister Bandit's Rear Around The Moon By Now!"
I was 10 years old in 1977 and my dad took me to see Smokey & The Bandit (at the Farmington Civic for those Michiganders out there) not because it starred Burt Reynolds but because it featured Jackie Gleason. Looking back, I think he regretted it just a bit due to the profanity and his desire to shield his son from it (similar to when Sheriff Justice says, “I have my young son in the car and I don’t want to hear that kind of language”). My dad was Jackie’s biggest fan and he went to see every one of his movies. The funny thing is that my dad laughed so hard that many times I couldn’t hear the next line including the profanity. His laughter was the best censor for me and everyone in the 2 rows in front and behind us. I write this with tears in my eyes because I wish they were all still here: Jackie, Burt, Jerry and my dad.
I was 10 years old when it came out also. My father took me to see it as well, but because he was a Burt fanatic since he had watched part of the filming of White Lighting. He took me to see anything Burt was in for the rest of his life.
Ha ha That sounds superb
I was born in 67, funny, the exact same thing, When Bufford let loose, My dad looked at me worried, but I was laughing so hard, we made it through the whole show, Never have I and Dad had so much fun in a movie.
Its defo a film that can make you cry laughing
Such a classic movie. Unsure how the latest generation would view it - but when I watch it now (watched it last night for the first time in decades) I was shocked how damn funny it still is. Jackie was a beast! I'm so glad he did this movie.
I’m apart of the new generation and it’s my all time favorite movie sometimes I wish I was around to experience what it was like doing the height of CB Culture
Let’s bring those c b’s back yawl
..."Wait a minute, why do ya want that beer so bad"? "Because he's thirsty, dummy"!!! That line always makes me laugh!!!
"Give him the money."....."I'd like to kick his ass just once."
It's my favorite line to use at every AA meeting.
The looks Burt Reynolds gives Paul Williams after the comment always cracks me up too.
That's a Fred Sanford line
@@KowboyUSA "I'm Kowboy, and I was thirsty". Classic!
BEST MOVIE EVER!!!! PERIOD!!! I have only watched it 3067 times, AND, drove a Black 83 trans am WITH T-tops to my hight school prom! Life is, was good!
I was a little kid living in England when this came out and I loved it as soon as I saw it. Fastforward to now and I'm a 47-year old bloke, still living in england, and I STILL love this film! Whenever I stumble upon it on the TV I drop whatever I'm doing and watch it again, feeling like that little kid again from all those years ago, just for a little while.
Well said.
Totally agree, cannonball run too.
Me too!
Defo me too as well
Beautiful comment, i'm in germany, born the year it came out..and i'm the same : ) Greetings
I saw this movie when I was 10 years old. From that moment on, I knew I wanted to drive tractor trailers. I bought my first tractor when I was 22 and made a career as an owner-operator. The first song I listened to in my Peterbilt was Eastbound and Down! Great memories!
One of the most fun movies ever made. This movie propelled me to buy a Trans-Am in 1978. Not a new one, at around 10 grand I think, couldn't afford it. A used one, a '71 white with blue stripe for 4 grand. Used musclecars where very cheap at the time, compared to today.
Those are so cool i remember the 455s i loved the older ones i was in highschool then all could afford was a 71 camaro that i fixed up but the year after highschool i got a 77 T/A because this guy sold it cheap and it ran perfect only needed a few very minor things like a window motor and i worked at a GM dealer so i got a discount on parts and got them installed for a couple bears haha good ol days!
When that movie came out I told my father that one day I would own one.....when the time came..drove one but the tops my feet kept hitting the lower portion of the dash/column area....its really tight and its not like I have gigantic feet, pretty average. Dont know if it was that model of TA or if they are all like that.
@@sherloidbai7064 must have been something someone added there is nothing from the dash or steeimg column that comes close to that area
@@magiccheeseball Thx for the response, I had given up on those cars for that reason but with this new info will try out another.
@@sherloidbai7064 hello handsome how are you doing today?🌹💐
Paul Williams is a legend. I realize he was overshadowed by Jackie, Burt, and Sally even..
One of the greatest songwriters who ever lived.
Truly a man of many talents. He was great in Phantom of the Paradise, and wonderfully funny as Little Enos in Smokey & the Bandit.
I still remember watching this at a small community hall on The Sunshine Coast, Queensland as a young kid. I thought it was the best thing I’d ever seen! It still rates very highly, over 40 years later.
Just curious, did you think it was a documentary? cause it was.
I can watch this movie over and over and still not get tired of it!
I’m totally the same. It’s a great movie
Parts were filmed in McDonough Georgia near where my grandparents lived. The guy who owned the restaurant Snowman got beat up at was given a couple of the run over motorcycles. He had great food. Most iconic movie I can think of , besides Star Wars!😉
Parts were also filmed in and around Jonesboro GA. The beer load up was in the tiny downtown of Jonesboro, baseball field was close by too. All part of my childhood growing up in the mid seventies. Wish now I would have skipped some school to watch them film some of the movie. Still remember all the skid marks and burnouts left on the country roads in and around the area where I grew up.
An American Documentary!
The Lynyrd Skynyrd album cover photo for PRONOUNCED LEH-NERD SKIN-NERD was also shot in McDonough.
It's simply the kind of movie you can pop into your DVD player any time you're having a crappy day and make you feel like a million bucks. So few movies really do that, especially now. I've watched so many times I lost count.
Totally true
The best word to describe this movie is FUN.
When you watch it you can see that everybody had so much fun making it.
No wonder they went on and made another 'Smokey' movie and 'The Cannonball Run'. Twice.
Burt & Dom DeLouese became good buddies & did The End. S&TB2, & Cannonball Run together. Dom talks about "Swamp Fever" in both 2 above mentioned movies. Terry Bradshaw also stars in both of them.
Thats cool
Excellent entertainment for the whole family. Young boys loved Sally. Mom's loved Burt.
Grandparents loved Gleason. Country music lovers loved Jerry.
Everybody loved Paul williams.
Two of my favorite movies are "Smokey And The Bandit" and "Convoy"
Hooper is pretty good
Same here Convoy #1 followed by bandit, vanishing point new and old, white line fever, any which was but loose, gone in 60sec. Etc, etc. All the old movie from westerns, to car chases.
and Jaws and Orca. Haha
Convoy is one of my all time faves
My favorites, I swear.
These legends are all gone. But the movie still rocks. Period. God bless they’re memories
I saw this movie as a 12 year old at the local drive in. During intermission I was shocked to run into my grandmother and her sister. They loved it too!
How cool is that
As we live through the decline of the American empire, its good to look back and see what once was. This movie represents the absolute peak of our civilization.
I cannot believe they didn't think Sally was sexy
She was the best thing since Kristy McNichol
Hello Eddie I guess you like sexy woman or it's just Sally?💐🌹
She really was
@@bryancooper2247 hello Bryan how are you doing today?💐
@@bryancooper2247 ♥️
I still can't take a road trip anywhere, without listening to eastbound and down. Such an iconic song.
It’s funny how are driving to certain music makes the world of a difference the music from Knight Rider theme makes me feel epic driving
Only car movie you can never get tired of
Gumball Rally
All do respect and I do love the movie SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT but there is another movie,BULLETT with Steve McQueen.It was the very first car scene/chase that hit the screen,movie came out in the 1960's,late 60's.
@@craigbosko2229 Ummm...no....it wasn't "the very first car scene/chase that hit the screen". Far from it....it was a great, intense chase scene but many had come before it (although none probably done as well up to that point).
@@neddegalan735 I even like Ron Howard's first directing movie; Grand Theft Auto.
Mr Gleeson , absolute legend, truly made this film .👍
This is the movie that made me a car guy I can watch it over and over never a boring moment all of this A list talent was increrdible....
So many others like you for sure
My Daddy's (RIP) favorite movie ❤
My mum brought me the video of this when I was 4. Its been my favourite film ever since. Especially as my Dads a truck driver and we've always had Basset hounds as pets. This film is just a masterpiece!!
Get OUT! AWESOME!
This movie is so good....great cast, action ...and so organic in its humor.......No other cop/car chase movie comes close
I was born in 79' but I find this movie insanely nostalgic
Watched again for the first time in over 20 years in a hotel while waiting for a train
It still holds up for me too.
Excellent film
Paul Williams had one of the funniest lines in the movie, and it's one that doesn't get too much attention; it's the exchange at the start between Big and Little Enos and Bandit where he tries to insult him, where Bandit says, "Why don't you just say something nasty about my mother?" and without missing a beat, Little Enos starts with, "Your momma is so ugly, that.." and gets cut off before the payoff. It's just classic.
Some proper epic lines in the movie for sure
One of the best exchanges in the movie.
It was for sure
Watch your language, little lady.
So many good lines
Smokey & The Bandit defined my childhood 🤠😍 Watched it so many times as a young boy. Love that movie still.
My uncle was an electrician key grip on Bandit. I got to see the trans am jump and shooting in Georgia when I was a little kid. Amazing!
My Dad took me to see Smokey And The Bandit when it first came out, I was 14 years old, we laughed so hard through the whole movie, truly one of the best days of my life, and still my favorite movie after all of these years!
That’s superb I bet those memories defo start flooding when watching that film
@@bullbaylissMusic Yes indeed!
That one and the original Gone In 60 Seconds. 😁
I can recall seeing this movie as if it was yesterday! 11 years old and sitting on the roof of my parents 1968 caprice station wagon at the drive-in… Rest in peace Jerry, Jackie, Bert! Thanks for the laughs and memories
Couldn’t say it better myself
That's a great video with tons of super interviews. Also, East Bound and Down should have gotten an Oscar for music in a film, that song is so damn perfect, still blows me away 40+ years later. Glad Hal and Burt touched on that slightly botched stunt when the Bonneville got clipped by the semi. That shot is incredibly visceral and thrilling. No CGI, that's for sure.
Love the tune
Yeap, Jerry was one hell of a talented “swingin lil guitar man” 😉
It’s pure luck no one got killed during the making! 😅
First movie I ever seen, and it was while I stood in the back seat of our ‘69 dodge charger 500 at the outdoor movie theatre.
@@daveosland awesome
2 genius song writers in this movie. Jerry Reed, and Paul Williams And no Paul, you'll also be remembered for playing Swan in Phantom of the Paradise.
and for writing the music in The End and Bugsy Malone.
Simply one of the best movies ever. We still love Smoky and the Bandit today
Awesome classic movie still enjoyable today and still makes me cry laughing
Snowman is one of the reasons I became a Trucker!! They way he talked on and off the CB! Loved it!!! One of my favorite movies!
One of the best ever
I remember watching this movie, Smokey and the Bandit with my dad when i was 13,14 years old and to this day, i can still hear my dad laughing his ass off, we both did. One of the best times i ever had with my father was watching this movie. My dad passed in 1986, and now im 58 years old. But one of the best movies to ever hit the big screen, could not have found a better cast than Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed and Sally Field. Thank you for making SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT
Sorry for your loss, he must have been an ace dad. I watched this with my father and also laughed so much making many memories
He also has passed away too early
My son and I just saw this in the movie theater a couple of weeks ago. He had never saw it on the big screen and just loved it evenmore. We just laughed at the same jokes over and over. Just had a blast!
Awesome
I remember it being a rainy Chicago Saturday afternoon. Little league canceled. Sox and Cubs game both canceled. I turned on the TV and this literally was just starting. Sucked me right in. I wanna say 1988 ....
Fantastic
" Because he's thirsty, Dummy." Might be the best line in film history. Either that or, "Any guy that would paint his truck like this would go to a minister's funeral dressed in feathers..." Lmfao for eternity...
Smokey and the Bandit is the greatest southern road chase movie and Dukes of Hazzard is the greatest southern road chase show