Smokey & the Bandit * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary
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Don't care what anyone else thinks but Jerry Reed is the one who makes this movie totally complete.
You're not wrong.
100%... This movie isn't close to as loved without Jerry Reed as Snowman or his music.
I am a firm believer that this movie would NOT have been as popular as it was without Jackie Gleason.
@@thereturningshadow agree on that point as well. He plays the douchey lawman perfectly.
@@thereturningshadow to be fair, Jackie Gleason was always acknowledged to be a big part of the draw of the movie. Burt Reynolds was a sex symbol at the time, but hardly a comedic legend like Jackie Gleason. And Sally Field was pretty much 'the girl from the Gidget and Flying Nun TV shows' in 1977. So Jackie Gleason was always recognized as one of the strongest elements of the formula, and was quite meme-able even then. Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane from The Dukes Of Hazzard are an obvious homage to Buford T. Justice.
Sheriff Buford T Justice aged exactly how the filmmakers expected him to age I think.
Jackie Gleason adlibed most of his lines and acting in the movie... NOBODY knew what the hell he was gonna say or do next, which is what makes his acting in this SO brilliant! especially how he interacts with Mike Henry (Junior). originally Gleason was going to be alone but he told production "i have to have someone in the car with me to play off of" the result was genius
Nothing was inappropriate in 1977 because nobody was uptight like they are today.
"I may not have been the best actor but I was the best Burt Reynolds" Burt Reynolds R.I.P.
Scanlan Shorthalt might disagree. (Most people here probably won't get this, but that's their problem.)
@@megadev9099 Do you mean Burt Reynolds, Esquire? Attorney at Law?
@@utility63 The one and only. Also known in some circles of course as... the Meat Man.
Burt always regretted turning down Terms of Endearment which won Jack Nicholson an Oscar instead he went on to do second rate Bandit rip offs like Stoker Ace...however Hooper was nearly as good as Smokey.
Did you realize the singer of East Bound and Down, The Bandit, and a few others in the movie is Jerry Reed. Jerry also plays Snowman, the driver of the semi with Fred?
The bandit was burt Reynolds.
@@knightwalkr The character Bandit was Reynolds. Jack was referring to the song "The Bandit", which was written and sung by Jerry Reed. Jerry also sang "East Bound and Down" as well as playing the character Snowman.
"Thought '70s movies were supposed to be wholesome ..." Oh, Ashleigh, how precious LOL We have such sights to show you ....
Behind the green door came out in the 70s
Maybe 50s yes, but 70s definitely not. (You could probably make the case for smut in the 50s with certain selections.)
Vanishing Point, 1971
Zardoz
Those were the days when people had fun and did not get insulted by a few jokes on each other. Woke ain't fun, just blah pretension...
I think Jackie Gleason makes the movie hilarious with His son.. the whole cast is funny
He is from the Honeymooners
Sherrif Justice completed the movie
Jackie was an absolute powerhouse of a performer. No one else could have played Buford T Justice.
I bagged Sally Field's groceries once. She was in town filming Lincoln. I didn't know it at the time. As she is placing her stuff on the belt I ask her 'Has anyone ever told you that you look like Sally Field? She doesn't respond, keeps her head down. So, I say 'Im sorry but there are worst people to resemble than America's Sweetheart.' She say's, 'Youre so sweet'. So, by the time she is paying she is closer and I ask, 'Forgive me, but are you actually Sally Field?' She says 'yes' and brings her finger to her mouth motioning 'Shshsh'. She was hoping to get through the store without being spotted. I get the hint and she shuttles out undetected.
Ever since tho like when I am dating someone if a girl calls me an asshole or tells me I am a jerk because of some circumstance where I probably was one I will say, 'Well, Sally Field is America's sweetheart and she told me I am sweet. Who the hell are you?" Haha.
Hell yeah! That's awesome!
That's adorable. I hope you try to be nice but it's still adorable. Shoot, now I picture someone like Starlord saying that to some girl after doing something foolish...
I remember when she and the film crew of Steel Magnolias rolled through Shreveport on their way to Natchitoches to film. It was an especially hot August and they just has to drag them in for a press conference. I watched it on TV, all these rich town hillbillies grinning up at her while she asked if it was going to get any cooler and they all snorted and said, "Naw..." in adoring voices. And they had to shoot a Christmas scene in that weather...
When I first saw you comment, I had a another window covering it and it read, "I bagged Sally Field" so I was disappointed, but it still was a nice story.
@@jackjones5314 😅😅🤦♂️😅😅
@@jackjones5314 That was funny.
It might interest you to know, Ashleigh, that actor Billy Bob Thornton once told Burt Reynolds that in the south in the 1970s, Smokey & the Bandit was considered a documentary. lol 😆
As Someone who had wild cat truckers in my family I can say he wasn't wrong
Truer words have never been spoken.
Thornton was right
The "whoever they are" to Fred and Ginger or Lester and Earl made me cry inside. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were a famous movie dance couple, they did 10 movies together, and Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs are a famous bluegrass duo, they did Foggy Mountain Breakdown and the theme to the Beverly Hillbillies.
In regards to the saucy dialogue, double entendres and general randy nature of this movie I can offer only one timid excuse:
It Was The Seventies!
I thought it was cute that she thought the 70's was some kind of non-prurient, wholesome period of history!
@@wallyman292 Ohhh, no it wasn't. Not by a long shot.
And it was fucking great 🤟
I mean to be fair With the internet their is damn sure even more horny people talking now then back in the day .
A lot of it was also IMPROVISED ...
This movie was a smash hit in '77; Overnight turning Burt Reynolds from a well known actor into a bona fide bankable movie star. Studios at the time were making gritty, deep, sometimes depressing films quite a bit. This movie was the ultimate escape. Fun fact: Up until his death, Alfred Hitchcock himself called this movie his favorite guilty pleasure.
Woah really? I had no idea Hitchcock even would be remotely interested in this movie, thats awesome!
Burt Reynolds had a metal chair stunt gone wrong while filming "City Heat" in 1984 and got a broken jaw that he got that majorly impacted his career... but he was a MAJOR movie star in my lifetime that was resurrected in 1997's "Boogie Nights" (a movie that I suggest that you DON'T include in a future edition of your channel about porn movies)
Second highest money making film of 1977, second only to Star Wars (A New Hope). Those two movies gave audiences a sense of fun and adventure that they obviously needed at that time.
Yea, Burt said in a interview that he net Hitchcock's daughter and her dad loved this film. Apparently, she said, the reason he liked it so much was because everyone looked like they were having fun.
Burt Reynolds held the top box office records for years starting with this movie.
The chemistry between Burt and Sally lifts this movie to another level. They look like they’re having the time of their lives all the way through.
They were an item for a while. Burt claimed Sally was, "The love of [his] life." Sally remembered it differently.
Directed by Hal Needham, who prior to this was the most legendary stuntman ever. He believed in fun. Big, dumb, fun movies.
Reynolds: After his divorce, Hal lived in my pool house for eight years
Needham: More like twelve
One of my favorite moments in "The Walking Dead" was when a couple of characters were hiding, they hid behind an old rusty abandoned semi trailer. When the camera pulled back for a longer shot, we could see that it was Bandit's trailer from this movie. Someone on "The Walking Dead" was a "Smokey and the Bandit" fan. For anyone who is interested, it's episode 10 of season 7.
In the episode prior to the trailer scene, in one of the shots, sitting in the background on the highway was a black Bandit Trans Am...great fan service...
sorry to disappoint you but the trailer in The Walking Dead isn't one of the trailers that were used in the movie... The movies trailers have horizontal ribs and the one in TWD is visibly completely different.
@@TeriWilde also, the Walking Dead trailer had side aero runners seen on all trailers today..the one in 1977 did not have those-they weren't invented or at least not in the US..We truckers can spot bs a mile away and they think we are stupid.
Also - they don't play Convoy in this one. That's for Convoy, with Kris Krostofferson as Rubber Duck.
Came here to say this, that they saved that song for it's own movie. And this, Convoy, should be on your list. Then Cannonball Run. Burt & Dom DeLuise = classic comedic duo
That's what I was going to say. Ashley is not far off though, with Convoy being a year younger than Smokey & the Bandit.
Yep. and C.W. McCall wrote and sang the theme song. I still like that cheesy song as a guilty pleasure.
Convoy is a really good movie too.
The actor playing the "smokey" is Jackie Gleason, one of the GOAT comic actors.
He was, iirc, called "The Great One"
Jackie Gleason is a goddamn legend.
Yeah, you can never forget him in the Honeymooners and "To the moon, Alice!! To the Moon!!!" phrase..
@@scottlyttle5586 Fred Flintstone!
@@RideAcrossTheRiver yep although he wasn't the voice of Fred Flintstone..Ralph and Alice Kramden were definately the inspiration for Fred and Wilma.
Throwback to pre-PC days comment wins the Internet:
"You couldn't even reach his ass."
🤣🤣🤣
The Eastbound and Down song was written and performed by Jerry Reed, who played the driver of bandit 2. Jerry Reed was an extraordinary musician and performer. His guitar playing was legendary. If you get a chance, do a TH-cam search on him.
He wrote it in one hour.
And they play two different versions. West bound and down, and at the end its East bound and down
Just so you know, this was made at a time when COORS wasn’t allowed to be sold in the eastern half of the United States.
Yeah, there are weigh stations and inspections that might've caught the beer, so they took backroads. And the truck had to speed to keep under the time limit of the bet.
Had a neighbor who used to run from Missouri to Indiana, he made some good money till people tasted it...
As a non American can I ask why?
@@patrickmassonne1919 🤣🤣🤣 piss water!!
COORS Banquet beer was unpasteurized. And they had no distributors or breweries east of the Mississippi. This means the beer could only be stored and delivered for a short time. Also, there were (and are) laws regarding the transport of certain things (alcohol included) over state lines.
Fun Fact: Smokey is slang for State Troopers. The slang term comes from the hat that state troopers typically wore, which is the same style hat that Smokey Bear wears. "Remember, Only YOU can prevent forest fires." 🐻💦🔥
LOL. I get it because I"m old enough to remember those commercials which aired befoe Ashleigh was born.
Smokey is also a term describing marine drill instructors because of the hat.
@@panowa8319 yes, and that's why we hear that term in Full Metal Jacket describing ole Gunny! :-)
Bandit even correctly refers to Justice as a "County Mounty" in the film.
FYI, City police were referred to as "City Kittys"
@@jamesfischer2427, Yep! My father was a Minneapolis City Kitty for 30 years but was big into the CB scene. His registered handle was "Nightstick".
“There ain’t a mystery left in them jeans.”
😂 Yup, that’s Burt!
The thing about Coors beer is that, at this time, you could not get that brand east of the Mississippi. Seems odd now, but it was not legally available in the east until a few years after this movie was a monster hit, which may have had something to do with changing things (not sure about that). That’s why Big Enos hired the Bandit and Snowman to haul a bootleg load to him. He wanted that brand of beer.
right now, you cant get Alaskan Brewery beers in Indiana..every state around us you can..but not Indiana lol
@@orangeandblackattack sounds like a tax issue
“This film has a lot of cussing for the 70’s”
*Laughs in Slapshot*
PS, watch Slapshot!
This comment needs more likes 👍 Slapshot is hilarious!
YES! SLAP SHOT!!!
Yes!
So many quotable lines in Slap Shot I don't even know where to begin.
Slap Shot FTW.
"This is like Country GTA." I have never seen a film summed up so succinctly since the review of Alien "Nobody listened to the smart woman and they all died except the smart woman and her cat, five stars".
GTA is just Country inserted into LA.
They should make a GTA: Bandit!
Blaine County is an amalgamation of all 70's and 80's car chase movies.
Love this movie! I grew up watching it, my parents weren't afraid to show it to us lol.
And fun fact, the only movie that was bigger than this at the box office in 1977 was Star Wars
I'd say that "Star Wars" number 1, "Smokey And The Bandit" number 2, "Pete's Dragon" number 3 and "The Rescuers" number 4… at the least! 🤔🤔
Fun fact: according to the director 85% to 90% of Jackie Gleason’s lines were ad lipped or improvised they didn’t know what he was gonna say from one scene to the next but the result was always hysterically funny
Ashley: "Oh, that's...inappropriate," followed by multiple "Oh, my Gods" and "I feel like 1977. Movies were still supposed to be wholesome."
Me: "Oh, you Sweet Summer Child. The 70's was insane! It was the last decade before AIDS and the modern movie system.
Not to mention that people "partying" was just building to the full swing of the 80's.
Even Bill Cosby was making risque sex comedies in the 70s!
Okay, let me explain: for most of his career Bill Cosby was known for being a wholesome, family friendly comedian. That was before we knew about his extracurricular activities.
@@charlesrense5199 lol, maybe we should have her watch "Mother, Jugs, and Speed"
Before AIDS but after The Pill. What a perfect time to be a 20-something.
The 70's were pretty much a 10 year hangover from the 60's. If you say you remember the 60's you obviously weren't there.
"I feel like for 1977 movies were still supposed to be wholesome" Now I think she should watch the 1976 Bad News Bears. Its a kids movie so you know it will be wholesome. :)
I started playing baseball (on a boys' team, cuz there weren't any for girls) in 1978 because of Bad News Bears... we saw it at the drive-in. I hadn't seen it in years and I watched it maybe 10 years ago and was like, "Oh my... times have certainly changed!" haha
Two words-- Animal House.
That was my first thought lol
The 70s and early 80s ... when we didnt mince words to spare feelings or worry about offending
She's not ready for Tanner Boyle! 🤣
my favorite line of the whole movie
"hold my hat!"
"my hat blew off daddy"
"i hope your god damn head was in it!"
Hal Needham, the actor/stunt man/ director of this movie was doing a movie in the east and brought Coor's beer with him for his motel room refrigerator.
For some reason, his beer stash kept shrinking. When he found out the hotel staff was swiping it, he asked them why they just didn’t buy their own?
He was informed that Coor's, at that time, couldn’t not be purchased east of the Mississippi under the brewing laws, and so was considered "bootlegging" (illegal transporting of alcohol for profit).
Hal figured the premise would make a great movie and Smokey and the Bandit was born!
Jerry Reed, a country singer/ songwriter was asked to write the music by Hal Needham. The next morning, Jerry performed EAST BOUND AND DOWN for Needham in his room. After playing the sound, Jerry said, "If you don't like it. I can change it!" Hal told him, "If you change it, I'll kill you!"
It's actually the other way around, Dukes of Hazzard was inspired by Smokey and the Bandit.
Partially, Dukes of Hazzard was based on the 1975 movie Moonrunners.
They toned it down and changed some of the characters for the Dukes of Hazzard show.
Only probably by the studio. ;) Guy Waltrip did a movie called Moon Runners about Moonshine. This follows on from that. By Guy himself.
And John Schneider,( Bo Duke) and Sonny Shroyer, ( Enos), we're both in this movie!
@@michaellailer9818 She should watch John Schneider's movie "Stand On It!"
@@CaptainFrost32 that is a good tribute movie! i was there when he filmed flying in, and landing on the General Lee, with the helicopter. i took my sisters kids up in that helicopter and we flew around, later that day! and last year, i was at his place and watched them film the car jumping across the Tickfaw river! it was a fun day!
Can't help but laugh at the notion of the 1970s being "wholesome."
So true
Clearly she is thinking of the 1950s.
The Brady Bunch aired in the 70s😆
Same here!
🤭😀😂
Important historical piece. The nationwide 55 mph was a real deal in 1977. 1800 miles at 55 mph is 32 hours. They only had 28, so taking loading and meal breaks into account, the truck needed to do around. Further, on the way back, the needed to distract the weigh stations. Tough job.
As someone that used to drive a semi, a roadside inspection is a reason the can be pulled over. You could be driving the speed limit, use your turn signal, not tailgate, and have your seatbelt on, and still get pulled over for an inspection.
With a roadside inspection, they're looking for lights that are out (every light on a semi needs to be functional at all times) or the wrong color (white or amber in the front and sides, red on the back except for the Antilock Brake System light on the back left on the trailer), brakes that are out of adjustment (this means they won't touch the brake drum when they need to), too little tire tread (4/32" on the steer tires. 2/32" everywhere else), incorrect tires (brand new virgin steer tires. Retreads can be used everywhere else), or hours of service violations (you can be on duty for up to 14 hours. Within that 14 hours, you can drive for up to 11 hours. Within that 11 yours, you have to have a 30 minute break within the first 8 hours of driving. You have to have a minimum of 10 hours off duty or in the sleeper every day. You can have a maximum of 80 hours on duty every 9 days with a 34 hour off duty or sleeper off to reset all the clocks). They are also looking for overweight trucks (absolute maximum without permits is 12,000 pounds on the steer axle, 34,000 pounds on the drive axles and 34,000 pounds on the trailer axles for a total maximum weight of 80,000 pounds.)
A roadside inspection can take an hour or two and does count against your 11 hour drive time clock
I always felt that Burt's little 4th wall breaks were him saying "I'm getting _paid_ to do this!"
Also reminds of Tom Selleck's 4th wall breaks on "Magnum P.I."
@@dannytse8767 Farmer Ted in _Sixteen Candles_
Where do you think Tom learned it.
Cannonball run is a good movie if you're into car chase type movies.
I was thinking Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Another Burt movie with Dolly
@@wearelegion6520 Being a Dolly fan she needs to see that one.
I second that notion 👍😁
I came here to suggest Cannonball Run too.
Cannonball Run and it's insane cast for it's time
Fun fact: There are brief cameos from four of the Dukes of Hazzard cast members. When Little Enos asks where he might find the Bandit, the man with the moustache that replies "I ain't seen him" is played by Ben Jones who also plays Cooter Davenport on Dukes. The motorcycle cop that pulls over Snowman is played by Sonny Shroyer who also plays deputy Enos Strate on Dukes. John Schneider (Bo Duke) and Catherine Bach (Daisy Duke) have brief walk-on cameos, but I haven't been able to spot them yet.
I’m so glad you liked this movie. It’s a lot of fun, and your reaction was golden! All those one-liners, lol
The actor playing the truck driver was the singer of Eastbound and Down - Jerry Reed.
Aka the singer of The Bird.
Singer and songwriter. He wrote it all in an hour.
@@kristennorth3268 also "Amos Moses" and "She Got the Gold Mine (I Got the Shaft)"
Jerry Reed is a world class guitar player. He is also in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
@@centuryrox "When You're Hot, You're Hot! (When You're Not, You're Not!)"
i watch this movie religiously on Christmas Eve. This movie is the second highest grossing film of 1977, fell short of number 1 by a little movie called Star Wars. Glad you liked this one Ashleigh!!!
Star War IV - the original
Yeah, second place cuz ... There was a first place movie. That's kinda how it works. :)
Saw this in the theater. Target audience was definitely teens. Jackie Gleason who played Bufford was an old time TV star.
@@t0dd000 I was a girl in 3rd grade and I can tell you I preferred Smoky And The Bandit over Star Wars. I actually wasn’t that into Star Wars.
This movie brought Burt and Sally together. Their relationship lasted many years and quite a few movies together.
I wonder if he ever had his hat off many times with her.
Interesting fact. When aired for TV back in the 80s, they decided to tone down the language and overdubbed the "SUM BITCH" line with "SCUM BUM" and ironically, it became a new insult and a lot of us kids would say it a lot.
The little guy in the blue suit is Paul Williams actor, singer and songwriter. He wrote it is not easy being green for Kermit the frog among others.
He was also one of the stars of and minds behind one of my all-time favourite movies, and one that would be great to see Ashleigh react to, Phantom of the Paradise.
As well as "Old Fashioned Love Song" popularized by Three Dog Night and "We've only just begun" made famous by The Carpenters.
Dude was a prolific songwriter in the 1970s and was on so many celebrity focused shows/game shows at the time.
He also wrote The Love Boat theme. Whether that's good or bad, I'll let you decide.
"It's Not Easy Being Green" was written by Joe Raposo. Paul Williams wrote "The Rainbow Connection", the OTHER song connected to Kermit thanks to The Muppet Movie.
@@philbell5564 I like it.
As the old saying goes: "Trousers so tight, you can tell what religion he is."
Ah, the 70s. I get a laugh out of how girls are hassled for bra straps showing or spaghetti straps. These people would have had a stroke when I went to high school. Any given day looked like an episode of Charlie's Angels, wall to wall nipples, cameltoes and mooseknuckles.
@@ronweber1402 Oof...... i was raised in the wrong time :( There's nothing more beautiful and pure than 70s women.
That's a really dumb one, especially for the US.
@@ronweber1402 Exactly. I remember those days. and the boys didn't all turn into sexual predator deviants because of it. My Mom during the summer didn't wear bras either. It was no big deal, but I rather enjoyed it as a youngster.
@@ronweber1402
Buffy made showing bra straps generally accepted.
Great reaction Ash, loved it :)
Enjoyed this. And nice seeing all the cab overs.
The song “Eastbound and Down's" lyrics change depending on which direction they're traveling, Ashleigh. When they're going to Texarkana it's “westbound and down, eighteen wheels a-rollin'," but after they get the beer and they're headed back to Atlanta it's “eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin'." They're not loaded up yet at the start of the movie.
Wow, I never picked up on that. Have watched this movie countless times, singing along. Thank you!
@@rebeccam7239 You're welcome!
Yeah I loved little things like that, also Ashleigh saying it was a mistake telling Old Justice to look over his shoulder ,
it was Bo's way of telling him, "you did f up son, at the rest stop you could have caught me."
Actually they are considered two different songs. West Bound & Down and East Bound and Down, though the actual music is identical.
@@davesteller6301 The only song listed in the credits is Eastbound and Down.
This movie was the inspiration for “Dukes of Hazard” as well as “BJ and the Bear”.
and convoy
And the CB McHaul and US 1 toys and the subsequent US 1 marvel comic
@@dougjohnson435 Wow…your right, I always thought Convoy came out first, but Smokey & the Bandit came out a year before.
Somehow I got them mixed up.
no Moonrunners was the inspiration for Dukes
Loved both of those shows.
I saw this movie multiple times as a kid then I saw it again in theaters for the 40th anniversary. When I saw it in theater I snuck a few Coors in and shared them with the gentlemen next to me. It was a great time with everyone singing along
This is the first time that truck driver, Snowman played by Jerry Reed, ever acted. He was a country music singer/songwriter that was friends with Burt Reynolds. He wrote the East Bound and Down song in one hour and that's him singing and playing guitar.
Jerry was an absolute natural! Some people just transition into acting so easily. I think the movie was really polished off by his character! : )
Dukes of Hazzard Note: The State Trooper in the movie that pulled over Snowman and the semi is the same actor, Sonny Shoroyer, who played Enos Strate in Dukes of Hazzard.
Most interesting, thanks.
Another Dukes note, at the end at the Smokey Red-22, there's a blonde guy in a green striped shirt driving a topless truck. That's John Schneider who played Bo Duke.
And starred in the strangely green-lit spin-off "Enos" that did not last very long and was not very good from what I remember.
Well possum on a gum bush!
How did I miss that all these years?
Such a fun movie and you’ll be hearing Jerry Reed singing the main theme song stuck in your head for days!
A big 10-4 on that
Loaded up and truckin'...
I would say for years 😅
You know straight away Sally and Burt have something that words cant explain , a chemistry far beyond words ! Something special you cant fake ! We all see it , Burt till his dying day said Sally was something he always loved .
I've been watching reaction videos since 2015 or 16 and I've never seen anyone do Smokey and the Bandit. OH MY GOD. Love you little girl!
You're going to love "Cannonball Run" staring Burt Reynolds and evrybody else.
And everybody else... you made me laugh.
Literally, everyone else
@@raff1966
(Not Quite) Everyone Else:
Dom Deluise (Also in Smokey and the Bandit II)
Sammy Davis Jr
Dean Martin
Jackie Chan
Jamie Farr
Jack Elam
Farrah Fawcett
Adrienne Barbeau
Roger Moore
Peter Fonda
Terry Bradshaw
Mel Tillis
Burt Convy
...
Cannonball Run is just Mad Mad Mad World with 70s people Ashleigh won’t know instead of 60s people Ashleigh won’t know.
@@jsharp3165 Haha, so true!
Trucks used to be routinely pulled over for inspection. You didn’t need to break the law to get pulled over. Nowadays, it’s more streamlined with weigh stations.
Nah. I still get more roadside inspections at random than weigh stations by at least 10 to 1. Roadsides aren't as thorough, but far more frequent.
Glass bottles full of liquid are very heavy, so that truck would have been WAY over weight - even a mediocre highway patrolman would have noticed how low it was riding.
There was also the fact he was speeding most of the way.
@@danhelphrey6260 But it was only 400 cases of beer. The liquid would be about 600 pounds presuming 24 bottles per case. Being cruel, the entire load wouldn't be more that 2,000 pounds. An entire trailer of beer in bottle would be maybe 35,000 lbs
the big reason he needed a "blocker" was there was no way to make the delivery on time without averaging way north of the posted limit. That was the challenge, illegal load and the need to run 80+ mph average to make it. Might as well paint a bullseye on the trailer instead of a cowboy mural.
The reason this movie was so well shot is because it was directed by former stuntman, Hal Needham.
catching up with your brilliant reaction videos a year on
absolutely love that you are reacting, exactly the way everyone else has over the last 40 years
from Britain, movies like this were a window on another world, the really BIG trucks, the massive vistas (on the big screen), and all the product placement of things we didn't have in Britain back then (but do now)
and yeah, movies were usually 90-100 minutes, films in the cinema were 6 reels of film = 100 or so minutes is your max
"Westbound And Down" and "Eastbound And Down" were actually separate songs. The latter had the "loaded up and truckin'" lyric, while the former had "18 wheels a rollin'", since they weren't actually "loaded up" yet. But it was otherwise the same basic song.
That’s how you can compose one song and get two royalty payments from it, an old music business trick. It’s a loophole in copyright and music publication law.
Yep, I was yelling at the TV, “You've got the words right!” 🤣
@@stantheman9072 Well, you know, ten bucks is ten bucks.
Jackie Gleason in this was absolute GOLD. He INVENTED that character as he went. "Sumbitch" was used by him after Reynolds told him about an old time southern sheriff who used the word and it was forever cemented into southern lexicon. This line is absolutely brilliant and I cannot count the times I have looked at one of my kids an thought this in my head. th-cam.com/video/Sn9-nNLzcWE/w-d-xo.html
the old time southern sheriff was Burt's dad.
Jackie Gleason is Hollywood royalty
Jackie modeled Justice after Burt's dad who was a chief of police in (old) South Florida. Think swamp, not Miami Beach.
I was ROLLING at the comment of: "Country GTA." 😂😂💯💯💯👏👏
@@hippychikforever Would give anything to have met Burt's dad.
My husband knows when I am watching a review from you because of your giggle.
Great review sis
The reason why they didn't play Convoy is that it's a whole different movie.
Convoy is a trucking movie staring kris kristofferson which you should also watch. Also "Cannonball Run" is a must watch.
Just wanna mention, the movie version of the song follows the movie plot and is slightly darker than the original version... so the lyrics are slightly different. Both are sung by Chip Davis aka C. W. McCall. Sam Peckinpah, the director of the film probably asked Davis to do an alternate version to make the story a bit more interesting.
Great movie. Ernest Borgnine was amazing as Dirty Lyle.
@@exafrost McCa;ll sang it, but Kristofferson wrote it. He like Jerry Reed was a song writer before being an actor.
Not to mention it came out the next year.
@@exafrost I've always preferred the movie version. If you get a chance, check out Around The World With the Rubber Duck for the continuation of the original version. RD and crew take a trip to get away from all the bears, it's actually quite funny.
Another hilarious Burt Reynolds movie is "The Cannonball Run", featuring an all star cast, and the best bloopers in cinema history.
It is as you'd say.... very witty.
Yes. This. Cannon Ball Run has a lot of the same kind of vibe as Smokey And The Bandit
When they did their review of the movie, Siskel and Ebert said the outtakes made it look like making the movie was more fun than watching it.
I also was going to suggest you watch The Cannonball Run.
I loved Smokey and the Bandit. Jackie Gleason made this movie great.
However I enjoyed The Cannonball Run even more.
CANNONBALL RUN !!!!! Co-signed!!!!
Cannonball Run is done by the same director as Smokey and the Bandit. (plus the commentary on Smokey and the Bandit is one of the best ones I've ever seen..) All east coast scenes from Cannonball Run were filmed in Atlanta-mentioned in the commentary..
Not sure, but Cannonball Run was the first, or one of the first, to show bloopers at the end of the film.
I remember when I was a kid, this was on TV and my dad let me stay up late
to watch it as it was one of his favourite movies
thumb up for the editing Ashleigh.
“East Bound and Down” was written and sung by Jerry Reed, (“Snowman” in this film.)
Also, Burt Reynolds’ hair was “perfect” because he was wearing a hairpiece. Even at this point in his career, his hair was starting to thin. He started wearing hair pieces pretty young and he’s got one on in this film. But I’ll give him credit: To my knowledge, he never denied wearing a hair piece or a wig and in fact, was comfortable with it; and the ones he wore were top quality and weren’t ever cheap, obvious, cheesy ones.
That's good for him =) Burt's so cool that he doesn't even deny it; "Yeah, I'm wearing a hairpiece. It is what it is."
Funny when they have Paul Williams in the cast , who has 190 soundtrack credits , from Telly ...who loves ya baby ? , to several Muppets appearances .
@@pete_lind PAUL WILLIAMS!!!
In some of his earlier movies he didn't wear the hairpiece so he couldn't deny it was a hairpiece.
@@Logan_Baron In Deliverance Burt gave up the ghost about it then... My mom didn't care one bit...
The absolute best line in ALL OF movie history -
Branford: "The fact that you are a Texas Sheriff is not germaine to this conversation."
Justice: "GAWDAMN GERMANS GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS."
Justice had some brilliant lines in this
Junior: But Daddy...
Buford: SHUT UP!!! One s--- at a time!
Oh… You, ah… Sounded taller in the radio..
And here i thought it was .. "nice ass"
Gleason best line for me other then smacking his son's momma was...
"I'm going to barbecue your ass in molasses!!!!!"
3:35 "there aint a mystery left in them jeans!" BWAHAHAHA!!!! THAT WAS CLASSIC!
Back in the 1970s, some beers were not sold in the Eastern US. Coors--- the beer in the truck--- is brewed in Colorado and it was illegal to possess this beer on the East coast. That was a crime.
Sheriff Justice's comment about Sheriff Branford aged exactly like it was supposed to. If Buford wasn't immoral he'd be the good guy in this story about bootleggers.
Exactly. The movie needed to show Bufort T. Justice in a bad light so you wouldn't like him too much.
I was just coming to make this same comment. That line aged perfectly--it was meant to paint him as a racist douche then, and it does the same job today.
@@arkikali5632 And see, I must not have been smart enough, because I missed any racism altogether. I thought he was referring to the apparent incompetence of a sheriff being in the crashed car in the creek (Despite the fact that he's the reason they tipped over in the first place)
@@captin3149 If you haven't seen the movie in a while, it's easy to forget the racist comments he makes. And the quote in question starts with him saying, "Hey, boy. Where's Sheriff Branford?" And then he kind of backtracks and says he thought he sounded taller on the radio. So no, it's not like he dropped a slur or anything, but I thought it was definitely racist. But the fact that you didn't interpret it that way is a good thing. Too many people reading racism into everything these days, IMO.
"can't believe they haven't play the song Convoy yet!" - that would be in the film "Convoy" :D
Yes that started another Country and West Star, Kris Kristofferson. But Kris didn't actually sing the song Convoy.
by C. W. McCall, aka Chip Davis, aka Mannheim Steamroller.
@@AlanCanon2222 No C.W McCall's real name is Bill Freis,used to be mayor of Ouray,Colorado,a small town about 80 miles from me.Check out his song Crispy Critters about Ouray
Good job, Ash!
I grew up about half an hour from the road where they filmed the lake jump scene - according to local legend, anyway.
Sally Field was 31 when she did this movie.. still young but not in her 20s which is what I always thought until I looked it up.
Jerry Reed (Snowman) wrote and sang most of the songs from this movie, he was a country music singer. It's rumored that he wrote the theme song (Eastbound and Down) in a single night before filming started for the movie.
He did, and he played it for director Hal Needham in his trailer on set. When he was finished, he asked Needham if he needed to change anything. Needham told him that if he changed one note, he would kill him, because it was perfect.
She looks maybe 21 in this movie - she's so gorgeous. I had no idea she was older. She still looks amazing.
Jerry was also one of the best guitar players in the USA.
@@leehanson1416 In fact, he was one of an elite few to be ordained by the legendary Chet Atkins as a C.G.P. - Certified Guitar Player.
Sally spent her 20's being the Flying Nun...
You asked why the truck needed the blocker: The truck is hauling illegal Coors across the Mississippi and going way over the speed limit to make the run on time. There are random inspections to catch such a thing too.
I was just gonna say the same thing. 💯😁
And you can get Coors at the 7-11 now, but it wasn't sold east of the Mississippi in 1977. That's where the bootlegging subplot comes from.
Coors is not a pasteurized beer so that was why it was illegal to ship it to some areas just like how unpasteurized milk is.
I don't know if refrigeration technology reached a crucial point in the early 80s, or if that's just when it became affordable, but Coors didn't consider the eastern seaboard profitable enough to extend their distribution license that far until then.
@@RichardX1 Coors was one of the innovators of refrigerated trucking, so they certainly had the technical means to expand their distribution area. They did decide to expand nationwide wide in the 1970s and 80s, hence the need to buy a big product placement/advertisement in this movie.
You nailed it! Dukes Of Hazard used this film for inspiration as that show aired in the early 1980's.
7:11 “Isn’t this how ghost stories start?!” 👻
Nice line, Ashleigh. And very true. 👍
During this time period. The national speed limit was 55 mph.
Yes, Coors was illegal in many states. It was a regional beer.
This was the movie that transition Sally Fields from TV sitcom star to box office movie star.
Relic from before refrigerated trucks were a thing. If you want to give yourself a headache, try making sense of liquor regulations.
my mom has 2 cats, one black, one gray. The gray one is Smokey and the black one is Bandit.
Bless your mom.
That’s adorable!
makes sense to me.
Love!
Burt and Sally fell in love in real life and years later I saw Burt on a Brit TV show saying Sally was still the love of his life and that he regreted not being ready for marriage while they were in a relationaship.
Motorcycle cop is the actor that played Enos straight in the dukes of hazzard
Burt said before he died, letting Sally get away from him was his biggest regret. She was the love of his life.
Link it up.
yup but he admitted he was a womanizer because he was so popular at the time
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman Again, link it the FUCK UP or be done with your bullshit gossip.
Are you all little old ladies on here, gossiping without a clue in the world?
If he said it, link it the FUCK UP or admit you are just spreading little old women gossip.
@@michaelmay5453 and if you were smart enough you could do your own research & figure it out for yourself but looks like you will never know
@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman No, kiddo, that is not how this works. If you make a claim it is either false or true, if you can't back it up it'll forever be false.
Just wait until you get to high school and learn how this works.
The semi isn't obeying the law. They have such a short time windows, that the semi has to "hammer down" (i.e. keep his foot on the gas) and make very few stops. Bandit 1 is running "blocker" to make sure that all the attention is on him, rather than a Semi that is doing 20-30+ mph over the speed limit. Also, the "Smokeys" know that is a route for bootleggers, because they all know Big Ennis has been trying to get truckers to make that run. So they are watching for them.
@Tyler Buckley but we also don't want to over complicate with industry terms so someone can understand us. We should also for grammatical accuracy.
Not to mention, in my experience at least, Smokey, or DoT, doesn’t need much reason to pull your over. Being a commercial vehicle, “safety” is their primary concern. Not filling their piggy banks ;-b
@@bobbyclarkston8836 as a commercial vehicle, they don't need any reason at all sadly
Why didn’t they just sort out the booze laws? F#cking weird country.
Also, since they are hauling an illegal load across state lines, we can go ahead and assume that he ain't hitting any weigh stations.
The interesting thing about the "Breaker breaker, Rubber Duckie. If you know what song I'm talking about." There's another movie for you, right there. The song Convoy inspired a fantastic movie, of the same name, staring Kris Kristofferson. Also thank you for the earworm, that's not going to leave me today. :P
EDIT: The reason they don't play Convoy is as above (19.10). C.W. McCall's Convoy was the inspiration for the Convoy movie, which Smokey and the Bandit was sort of a cash in on.
loving that i came across ypur chanels pretty funny lady !!
Buford T. Justice will remain the best character ever created.
@Jared Falk the first time I saw this film, I couldn't stop laughing at everything he said. Even in the sequel, he made me cry.
I always get confused and call him Buford T. Coltraine.
And his patrol car is one of the funniest non-human characters to ever appear in a movie. It's the only thing in the movie he treated worse than Junior.
@@joeday4293 that patrol car has been through more hell than anyone else that has ever existed.
The fact that you are a sheriff is not germane to the situation.
The @#!$*** Germans got nothing to do with it!!!
No, the truck was speeding to make the time. Bandit was just making sure he was the target and it let Snowman drive fast without getting stopped first.
Also hauling beer without proper authorization is illegal and called bootlegging. Plus I believe Coors at that time was not sold in the east (I could be wrong) so just hauling Coors could be illegal. But yeah doing 96 will definitely put you on the cops radar even without the rest of those charges.
@@davesteller6301 then they finally got the Coors and said "well that certainly wasn't worth it!"
@@davesteller6301 They actually say in the movie that transporting Coors east of Texas was bootlegging.
Your reaction to this movie was hilarious! Also, the answer to all of the questions, you have about this movie is, "it was the 1970's!"😂
I remember seeing this in the theater when I was a kid. The 4th wall break behind the bank was the first I ever remember seeing!
Great movie!
You do realize that everyone is going to call you Frog now, right? 🤣👍
The ‘dwarf’ is Paul Williams, one the the most prolific song writers of 70s and 80s. Songs by The Carpenters, Three Dog Night and others. Look up his catalog!
He played the Orangutan on the Battle of the planet of the apes which ended the movie series with charleston Heston.
Of course Muppet Show,too.
Don't forget "Short People"
@@Urugami45 Short People was written and performed by Randy Newman, not Paul Williams.
Bugsy Malone was a great movie score of his.
The Fred and Ginger he mentions are Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers who starred in a lot of RKO musical films
The greatest dance duo of the '40s.
"Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers dance on air"
And Lester and Earl were Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, famous bluegrass musicians. They used to turn up on TV on the Beverly Hillbillies as themselves.
@@missmartylynn - Really it was the 30s. They only made one film together in the 40s (1949) The Barkley’s of Broadway.
@@dadoctah ..."Nowww, Listen to mah story bout a man named Jed..." One of THE most wonderful and famous TV theme songs EVER !!!
The final chase is full of hilarious antics. The Rollercoaster collapse was real footage. Lakewood Amphitheater used to be fairgrounds and that was demolishing the coaster for removal.
"I'll make everybody happy"
1000th Ghost just knows how to please.
Movies WERE wholesome in the 70s. Just, the definition of "wholesome" has changed over the years.
70s movies were family movies.
If you count showing how families are made.
Also expectations and understanding of ratings were different before PG-13. Even a G rated movie like Bambi or Old Yeller could be 'traumatizing' for a small child, but people knew G had no sex, language, or graphic violence. People knew R would have all those things and you should def not show them (R rated movies) to children (as a social norm).
PG was in the middle and meant exactly that. It could go either way. PG was not 'obviously' appropriate or inappropriate. You were expected to watch it for yourself and make your own decision if it was okay for your kids/family.
Now broadcast television was very different from movies back then. The three major networks had pretty strict guidelines about what would fly and what wouldn't with pretty much everything, at least is it was shown before 10 pm needing to be what most would consider 'wholesome'. Archie Bunker was pushing the envelope about as far as you could at the time.
I remember when PG-13 meant there was still a chance for bewbs. Now you that's almost NC-17 territory.
“Why is everyone so passive aggressive?”
It was the 70’s Ashleigh.
Convoy was another movie from the 70’s.
Convoy is a great movie.
I know all the song lyrics as the film plays.
@@richieb7692 I prefer the original song, but the movie is a good watch.
I love how in some shots, your face is where Bandit is, making it look like you're driving with Carrie.
Thank you!
I enjoyed this movie in the theater when I was a kid.
I haven't seen it since
Your interpretation is Great!