The second theme, Eastbound and Down, actually changes. When you first hear it, when Cletus and Bandit are going to Texarkana, its actually Westbound and Down. When they have the cargo and are headed back, its Eastbound and Down.
There is an annual (and illegal) Bandit Run road race. The goal is to drive from Atlanta to Texarkana, purchase some Coors beer, and get back to Atlanta with the fastest time. Some participants drive black Trans Ams, but it isn't a requirement.
True that 110 mph would be around 180 kph. But the 110 that Frog has seen on the speedometer were actually kph not miles. So they were doing roughly 70mph. The Trans Am had both mph and kph on their speedometer. Seen this movie over 50 times. Always bothered me this line.
They're not Texans. They're from Atlanta, Georgia. They're going to Texarkana, Texas to pick up 400 cases of Coors Beer, which in those days it was illegal to transport East of the Mississippi River.
The truck driver, Jerry Reed, also sang the "East Bound & Down" song. Don't play with yourself = don't gratify yourself...sexually. The Sherrif, played by Jackie Gleason, was in a famous comedy television show in the 1950s called The Honeymooners. His unique speaking mannerisms were honed there.
Back in the 1970s, the CB radio was the cell phone of today. Truckers mainly used channel 19 and Channel 9 was considered the emergency channel. Most police departments of the day, monitored the emergency channel for emergency radio traffic from citizens.
Little Enos played by writer, actor, singer, songwriter, musician Paul Williams. One of the best song writers in history. Has an Oscar and several Grammy awards. Rainy Days and Mondays, We've Only Just Begun for the Carpenters. An Old Fashioned Love Song for 3 Dog Night. The Rainbow Connection for The Muppet Movie. Co-wrote Evergreen which won Oscar.
Older US (I'm from the South) car enthusiast checking in. At the time this film was made, the US had a nationwide 55mph (90kph?) speed limit, even on our trans-continental expressways. Completely unacceptable in a nation this large. CB radios were traditionally used by radio hobbyists and small fishing vessels until the low speed limit was created..we started putting them in our cars (I think truck drivers did it first) as one way of avoiding police enforcing that stupid law. The culture around those things were actually much like internet culture today. Use a nym ("handle") instead of your real name, use slang to refer to things, etc. The Pontiac Firebird: The "Trans Am" was the top of the line version, with the most powerful engine available at the time, and a suspension with better roadholding. One of my girlfriends had one. We called it the Reverse Bandit, it was gold with black decals. Car was a lot of fun, but we never jumped a bridge! 😄
This was a time when the majority of the people disagreed with a law and deliberately ignored it. It made the highway police real unpopular and they never did get back the attitude of co-operation from before the law was passed. Just like prohibition and the war on drugs, once the people decided they didn’t like the law they felt free to disregard it. Even today there are places where it’s not the speed limit but the speed suggestion.
@@Bakura5445 , gorgeous cars, right? If I could afford to collect old cars, I'd rather have the gold than the black. An aside I hope you'll find funny - I'm a Sports Car Club of America member. Pontiac named the "Trans Am" after our pro racing series for US 'pony cars' during the late 1960s. GM paid the Club one dollar per car sold as a marketing fee. After "Smokey and The Bandit" came out, they sold so many Trans Am Firebirds that it brought us a pretty good chunk of change!
On the topic of CB Handles my uncle, my cousin and myself used the handle the Flying Frenchman. Before my uncle retired my cousin dubbed himself Flying Frenchman Jr
Pre-cellphone days. Truck drivers used CB radios to talk back and forth. They had their own lingo to communicate easier. Burt Reynolds and Sally Fields had a real long running relationship and the chemistry comes right thru on the screen . 🚛🚓
This movie is a time capsule hon. I graduated in 1977 and almost everyone had those citizen band radios and a "handle" (nickname for the radio) that Trans Am was every young man's dream. At the time we thought those times would never end.
I was born in 1960 and spent my entire teenage years in the 70s and I feel it was the best decade from music of all genres great comedians and movies and being a teenage boy I loved seeing girls in halter and tube tops
Paul Williams (Little Enos Burdette) was also a famous singer/songwriter (winning 9 Grammys, 6 Oscars, 6 Golden Globes, + 2 Emmy nominations (for music) as well as other honors) as well as an actor and current President and Chairman of ASCAP since 2009.
Little Enos is Paul Williams who was a pretty popular singer in the 60s/70s. Of course Jerry Reed (the truck driver) is the one singing the music in the soundtrack.
As silly it may seem: This is my #1 movie. Seen it over 50 times. First time over 40 years ago when I was 5. Told myself one day I'll get my own Trans Am. Took a bit more than 20 years until I got one (for a few years at least). And it wasn't just me - the sales skyrocketet after the movie came out. Burt, Jerry, Jackie Gleason and Mike Henry. All gone...Sally is still here. Great movie, great fun - very quotable and with a great soundtrack. Jerry was definitely one of the best country guitarists.
Sally and Burt became a couple during the production of this movie, so their chemistry is very real. Jackie Gleeson is famous for being in the 1950s comedy, The Honeymooners. Couple of other Burt Reynolds car chase comedies worth watching is The Cannonball Run and The Cannonball Run 2. Both movies have a lot of famous people in them, from actors, to singers, to professional athletes.
This film was the first one directed by stunt coordinator Hal Needham. He was living in a spare room at Burt Reynolds' Florida home after becoming homeless after a divorce. Burt started his career in Hollywood as a stuntman and worked with Hal for a long time. Hal actually was his stunt mentor. So anyway, Hal wrote this script and asked Burt to read it. Burt was nice to his friend but thought the original script was terrible but thought that it could be made better. Hal originally wanted Jerry Reed to be the Bandit but changed his role after he convinced Burt, the biggest movie star at the time, to be in the field. Burt got 1 million dollars of the limited 4.3 million budget as his pay. Burt contacted Sally thru her agent and got her a copy of the script to read. He told her he thought they could make the dialogue better working together, and she really wanted the chance to headline a big movie. Hal didn't think she was pretty enough, but Burt convinced him. Burt also talked Jackie Gleason into doing Sheriff Justice by telling him he could pretty much write all his own dialogue. It was Jackie's idea for Junior to be in the car with him as he said he couldn't do his type of comedy without someone to bounce off of.
Jerry Reid ... AKA Snowman is an incredible song writer & guitarist .... he wrote & performed theme song "East Bound & Down" 110 Miles per hour ... is 177 Kilometers per hour Sheriff Branford being taller on radio was a tongue in cheek reference to him being black Burt & Sally dated off & on for 6 years after making this movie
Burt was engaged to Sally for quite a while but they never married but he did marry Loni Anderson frome WKRP TV show. He had a farm in Jupiter, Florida where he kept all his memorabilia including the vehicles from this movie and I met him once there. Santa
Two movies, both from 1977, which had the biggest impact on my life, was this one, and "Convoy". Both movies made me want to be a trucker....now I am one. 10-4 good buddy.
I'd love to see a Convoy reaction. Barely any out there - or none at all? Besides SATB one of my very favorite movies. Kris Kristofferson, Ernest Borgnine and Burt Young. Fantastic movie and like this one here with a great soundtrack.
"Deliverance" (1972) starring Burt Reynolds (without the mustache) and Jon Voight, is a whitewater backcountry adventure film that you need to consider. Oscar nominated for Best Picture among other nominations. Rated 4 to 5 stars by everyone. Reynolds was a tv actor, but this movie made him into a movie star.
One of my favorites. Fun fact the motorcycle cop played Deputy Enos in The Dukes of Hazzard TV show. I got another movie reaction suggestion for you it's another one of my favorites, The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz. It's like Top Gun meets Back to the Future.
Thxs Emma, my 2nd all time favourite movie!!! Especially the theme song "East Bound and Down", a must driving song!!. RIP Jerry Reed, Burt Reynolds & Jackie Gleason
Yes, Finally Did This Great Classic Movie & As Always Love Seeing Your Reactions Sweetheart ❤, Please Do Smokey & The Bandit 2,You Will Definitely Love That One Forsure
My last wife was much younger and when I tried to get her to watch this she said "I don't watch old timey movies" I was too shocked to even be crushed lol
Playing the Sherriff : Jackie Gleason, was an American actor, comedian, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One", a sort of tongue in cheek running joke every one liked. He developed a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, and was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his city bus driver character Ralph Kramden in the television series The Honeymooners. He also developed The Jackie Gleason Show [variety show], which maintained high ratings from the mid-1950s through 1970. His father abandoned the family, his older brother had died at age14, Gleason was 19 when his mother died. He had nowhere to go and 36 cents to his name. From 36 cents to his name to total stardom...that's pretty impressive. hi performance in Smokey here was praised by the critics and he truly stole every scene he was in. He should have gotten a Best Supporting Actor Award for this role. He was funny as hell. It was Burt Reynolds who recruited him for the film.
I had two of those Pontiac Trans Ams a few years after this movie came out. They were a special edition called the Blackbird. Both were 1977 models. My Father and Brother both owned their own Semi Trucks and drove all across the country. This was a special movie for all of us. Star Wars was number one, Smokey and the Bandit was number 2, and The Spy Who Loved Me with James Bond rounded out the top three fort 1977.
This movie jumped the Pontiac Firebird into a Top Seller for GM. It also started the CB radio craze then. I got one for my car and quickly you could order a New Car with a Factory installed CB radio. That died out after a few years. Now everyone has Cell Phones but it's just not the same.
You should react to Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins playing together on your music channel. Both were amazing players, Chet taught Jerry some of his techniques.
As we say down South, "Hell, yeah." My dad was a big Atkins fan, it made him happy when his rock-loving teenage son became a Reed fan. Was a TV show in about 1975, IIRC.
I lived in Jonesboro 2 miles from Snowmans house the summer of '76 & got to see the Trans Am coming out of the truck & in Spring of '77 we moved to Covington where I got to be in the 1st episode of Dukes of Hazzard Dec '78, Cannonball Run 1981 where Burt lands his plane to get beer & my '78 Ttop Z28 was in a chase scene in Heat of the Night 1992! Seen the Bandit for the last time at the 40th anniversary of SATB in Jonesboro 2017! Went to a few races at Lakewood & rode the coaster a couple times before it was destroyed in Smokey & the Bandit II & also went to a lot of concerts in the 80s & 90s at Lakewood Amphitheater
@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman I learned how to drive a straight shift in the parking lot of the Amphitheater while it was under construction... and went to a bazillion Jimmy Buffett concerts there.
Awesome Reaction Video 🎉 The character "Foxy Lady" was played by the legendary singer Brenda Lee. Someone that you could check into on your music channel 😊 Thanks for the Entertainment ‼️
The majority of this movie was filmed around Atlanta. My wife is from Atlanta so she personally knew where a lot of the scenes were recorded. For instance, the Coors warehouse that was supposed to be in Texarkana, Texas was in reality in Conyers, Georgia east of Atlanta (and my father-in-law worked there at one time), the scene where Bandit loses the cop at night in the town center where he looks at the camera was actually filmed in McDonough, Georgia and the missing bridge that Bandit jumps is now by a bunch of subdivisions southeast of Atlanta close to where my father-in-law is buried.
This was much more relevant in the late 70's. CB (Citizens Band) radios were huge, and monitored by the FCC: you needed a license to use one legally. CB radio clubs were popular.
Not too long after this and the sequel, Burt Reynolds was being presented with a lifetime achievement award of some kind. From around the crowd, hy ere comes Jackue Gleason in full Buford T. Justice uniform and persona. Gleason proceeds togive a non-stop Bufird style monolog, stalking all around the room, promising all kinds of mayhem when he catches the Bandit. Other fun movies of Burt and cars...Stroker Ace and the Canninball Run movies. The latter has massive casts of major celebs of the time. *always* watch for a blooper reel during and after the credits on Burt's movies!😊
Thank you Emma! Everybody loves this story! Burt and Sally married not too long after the movie, and lasted some years as a married couple. Burt made it clear that she was the love of his life. Sally later won two (!!) Academy Awards, becoming one of the most acclaimed actors in the world. Jerry sang most of the songs! He acted wonderfully, in spite of his main job as a major country musician.
@@bossfan49 Wow, thank you for the correction! Oh, how time has clouded (and sweetened) my memory of their relationship. I forgot what a controlling and misogynistic guy he was. Much appreciated!
Sally Field and Burt Reynolds had a complicated relationship that began when they met on the set of Smokey and the Bandit in 1977 and lasted until 1982
"Ready Roy, I was born ready" They were referring to Roy Rogers who was one of the biggest cowboy actors and singers. He did almost 90 movies and had his own tv show. It was Roy Rogers that side swiped the sheriff's car a few scenes later. He said "Bonzii" with the white cowboy hat and took the door off.
i follow you and as soon as i seen the reaction to arm spray . i knew i seen you do this before . i like respect for truckers not for them we have nothing. Should be better paid than politicians .
Emma, if you really liked this film, you should watch Hooper. It has the same director with Hal Needham and stars Burt and Sally. It is a movie about stuntmen in particular Burt in the title role.
12:44 -- RE: "Ha! I love the mood of this guy."; A: Fun Fact! Country-Western music recording legend Jerry Reed, a fierce guitar picking man and a singer to boot. He's got a few songs in video games, "Amos Moses" was in GTA: San Andreas.
55 mph speed limits were implemented by the government because they thought it would save gas during the gas shortages of the 1970's. Also, during the 70's, the government forced car manufacturers to basically muzzle car engines to improve gas efficiency.
I love it when young people do reactions to old movies. Especially when they are concerned about car safety and things like that. The 1970's in America was a free spirit kind of time. We had seat belts but never used them. We used to drive with our girlfriends cuddled on our lap. Our mothers held us in their laps in the car when we were babies. We used to ride in the back of pickup trucks going down the highway. We did a lot of things in the 1970's that were considered normal then but would be considered child endangerment today.
Saw this probably 20 times in the theater when it first came out. Loved it then... still do. Glad to see you liked it. Texas... yeah... As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Sheriff Buford, Jackie Gleason, had TV shows for years. It was a variety show where a skit from it, The Honeymooners, became a hit on its own. He starred in a great movie The Hustler with Paul Newman. He was composer and conductor.
At the time this movie was made Coors be was not allowed to be sold in many states because it was cold filtered not pasteurized. I don't think it was allowed to be sold east of the Mississippi River, thus the reason it was considered bootlegging and illegal
as i recall it wasent illegal it was just too much of a hassle since you had to use a reefer trailer. so coors never sold thier beers in those states so in the movie it would be illegal since they are a 3rd party bootlegging
The short guy who plays Little Enos? That's Paul Williams. Apart from acting, Paul is a prolific award winning songwriter, has won an Oscar, three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Ivor Novello International Award and earned induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is As President and Chairman of the Board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). But country singer Jerry Reed, who plays truck driving Snowman, wrote and sang the theme song. He demanded the song as a condition to acting in the show.
Well that was a blast from the past, CB Radio's, Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason all having fun and plenty of mayhem on the road, all added up to a great hour or so, so thanks for that Emma; Plus an enjoyable, charming/witty and stylish reaction, with Emma looking mighty fine, beautiful and elegant; 🦄🥰😘🙏👏🙏👍🎶🎵🎶🎧🎙🍵🥃🍁🍁🦅.
Classic movie from a classic time in America. I saw it in the theater when it came out in 1977. The trucker craze was going wild and the CB radio was the must have technology of the time. The reference to 110 miles an hour indicates that the Bandit was going twice the legal speed limit on America's highways at the time. The 55 mile per hour speed limit was the law of the land on highways and it was not popular. You also mentioned that Sally Field and Burt Reynolds looked good together and that is probably because they were together in a romantic relationship for years. They did a few movies together in the late 1970's.
It was a fun movie when it first came out and still a fun time revisiting the movie. Great reaction and continue to review the oldies. Thank you Emma. And by the way, you do not have a stupid smile. 😃
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Jerry Reed, who plays The Snowman in the movie sang the majority of the songs in the movie.
Movies back then were fun!
R.I.P To Burt Reynolds,Jerry Reed & Jackie Gleason Still Miss You Guy's
Jackie Gleason was an ab libbing genius 😎🥃
@@zrx1100zz He even wrote the scene w him and the Bandit in the diner which wasn't in the original script.
@@jamesHazel-b2n Oh I Didn't Know That,I Learned Something New,Thanks 👍
@@zrx1100zz Exactly 💯
Sally Field was such a fox 😍
She still is pretty good looking.
I was only 8 years old when I first watched this. It took me a couple more years to realize why i liked her so much lol. Girl next door vibes
@@cp368productions2 Yep!
Was,😢
@@matthewpayne42That's what the OP said. What's your point?
The second theme, Eastbound and Down, actually changes. When you first hear it, when Cletus and Bandit are going to Texarkana, its actually Westbound and Down. When they have the cargo and are headed back, its Eastbound and Down.
There is an annual (and illegal) Bandit Run road race. The goal is to drive from Atlanta to Texarkana, purchase some Coors beer, and get back to Atlanta with the fastest time. Some participants drive black Trans Ams, but it isn't a requirement.
Just for reference, 110 miles per hour is nearly 180 kilometers per hour. Yes, it's a little fast for a public road.
WOW!! Thank you!!
180 isnt too fast ... on a german Autobahn ... but since it is the USA in this case ... they shouldnt even be allowed to drive or own cars.
180 in most cars of those aera felt like 300kph today.
@@Muck006 We may be stupid, but at least our grandfathers weren't stuffing people in ovens. You have no right to criticize anyone's culture, ever.
True that 110 mph would be around 180 kph. But the 110 that Frog has seen on the speedometer were actually kph not miles. So they were doing roughly 70mph. The Trans Am had both mph and kph on their speedometer. Seen this movie over 50 times. Always bothered me this line.
They're not Texans. They're from Atlanta, Georgia. They're going to Texarkana, Texas to pick up 400 cases of Coors Beer, which in those days it was illegal to transport East of the Mississippi River.
The truck driver, Jerry Reed, also sang the "East Bound & Down" song.
Don't play with yourself = don't gratify yourself...sexually.
The Sherrif, played by Jackie Gleason, was in a famous comedy television show in the 1950s called The Honeymooners. His unique speaking mannerisms were honed there.
Back in the 1970s, the CB radio was the cell phone of today. Truckers mainly used channel 19 and Channel 9 was considered the emergency channel. Most police departments of the day, monitored the emergency channel for emergency radio traffic from citizens.
$80,000 in 1977 is $416,000 today
Billy Bob Thornton grew up in the South. The first time he met Burt Raynolds he said "We considered Smokey and the Bandit a documentary".
R.I.P. Burt Reynolds, Jerry Reed, and Jackie Gleason
And Fred...
Little Enos played by writer, actor, singer, songwriter, musician Paul Williams. One of the best song writers in history. Has an Oscar and several Grammy awards. Rainy Days and Mondays, We've Only Just Begun for the Carpenters. An Old Fashioned Love Song for 3 Dog Night. The Rainbow Connection for The Muppet Movie. Co-wrote Evergreen which won Oscar.
I think he just has Oscar nominations, but, yeah, quite a career.
Paul Williams performed An Old Fashioned Love Song on the Muppet Show. That had to be a blast working with the Muppets.
And do not forget his brilliant performance as Swan in the Phantom of the Paradise! Underrated DePalma.
@zooks527 no, he has an Oscar for best original song for Evergreen from the movie A Star is Born
@@blortmeister Damn you must be old. Too. Really a forgotten gem. I saw that at the matinee.
Older US (I'm from the South) car enthusiast checking in. At the time this film was made, the US had a nationwide 55mph (90kph?) speed limit, even on our trans-continental expressways. Completely unacceptable in a nation this large. CB radios were traditionally used by radio hobbyists and small fishing vessels until the low speed limit was created..we started putting them in our cars (I think truck drivers did it first) as one way of avoiding police enforcing that stupid law. The culture around those things were actually much like internet culture today. Use a nym ("handle") instead of your real name, use slang to refer to things, etc.
The Pontiac Firebird: The "Trans Am" was the top of the line version, with the most powerful engine available at the time, and a suspension with better roadholding. One of my girlfriends had one. We called it the Reverse Bandit, it was gold with black decals. Car was a lot of fun, but we never jumped a bridge! 😄
My Mom had one in 'reverse' paint, too. Gold car with black trim and decals. That car was seriously badass.
This was a time when the majority of the people disagreed with a law and deliberately ignored it. It made the highway police real unpopular and they never did get back the attitude of co-operation from before the law was passed. Just like prohibition and the war on drugs, once the people decided they didn’t like the law they felt free to disregard it. Even today there are places where it’s not the speed limit but the speed suggestion.
@@Bakura5445 , gorgeous cars, right? If I could afford to collect old cars, I'd rather have the gold than the black. An aside I hope you'll find funny - I'm a Sports Car Club of America member. Pontiac named the "Trans Am" after our pro racing series for US 'pony cars' during the late 1960s. GM paid the Club one dollar per car sold as a marketing fee. After "Smokey and The Bandit" came out, they sold so many Trans Am Firebirds that it brought us a pretty good chunk of change!
On the topic of CB Handles my uncle, my cousin and myself used the handle the Flying Frenchman. Before my uncle retired my cousin dubbed himself Flying Frenchman Jr
Pre-cellphone days. Truck drivers used CB radios to talk back and forth. They had their own lingo to communicate easier.
Burt Reynolds and Sally Fields had a real long running relationship and the chemistry comes right thru on the screen . 🚛🚓
This movie is a time capsule hon. I graduated in 1977 and almost everyone had those citizen band radios and a "handle" (nickname for the radio) that Trans Am was every young man's dream. At the time we thought those times would never end.
I was born in 1960 and spent my entire teenage years in the 70s and I feel it was the best decade from music of all genres great comedians and movies and being a teenage boy I loved seeing girls in halter and tube tops
We used CB upnin my neck of the woods clear into the mid ninties. My uncle, cousin and I were "The Flying Frenchmen"
Smokey and the Bandit and The Blues Brothers were my favorites when i was a kid
fun pick. Jackie Gleeson is hysterical as the sheriff. Most of his scenes were improvised. Happy Halloween Emma!
If you want to see Sally Fields and Burt Reynolds together again, watch "Hooper". It's a really fun movie.
Then The Cannonball Run, the 3 best of these films imo.
*Field
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If you haven’t noticed, the girl in this movie is the same woman that plays the mother on Forrest Gump
Paul Williams (Little Enos Burdette) was also a famous singer/songwriter (winning 9 Grammys, 6 Oscars, 6 Golden Globes, + 2 Emmy nominations (for music) as well as other honors) as well as an actor and current President and Chairman of ASCAP since 2009.
Little Enos is Paul Williams who was a pretty popular singer in the 60s/70s. Of course Jerry Reed (the truck driver) is the one singing the music in the soundtrack.
As silly it may seem: This is my #1 movie. Seen it over 50 times. First time over 40 years ago when I was 5. Told myself one day I'll get my own Trans Am. Took a bit more than 20 years until I got one (for a few years at least). And it wasn't just me - the sales skyrocketet after the movie came out. Burt, Jerry, Jackie Gleason and Mike Henry. All gone...Sally is still here. Great movie, great fun - very quotable and with a great soundtrack. Jerry was definitely one of the best country guitarists.
Sally and Burt became a couple during the production of this movie, so their chemistry is very real. Jackie Gleeson is famous for being in the 1950s comedy, The Honeymooners. Couple of other Burt Reynolds car chase comedies worth watching is The Cannonball Run and The Cannonball Run 2. Both movies have a lot of famous people in them, from actors, to singers, to professional athletes.
This film was the first one directed by stunt coordinator Hal Needham. He was living in a spare room at Burt Reynolds' Florida home after becoming homeless after a divorce. Burt started his career in Hollywood as a stuntman and worked with Hal for a long time. Hal actually was his stunt mentor. So anyway, Hal wrote this script and asked Burt to read it. Burt was nice to his friend but thought the original script was terrible but thought that it could be made better. Hal originally wanted Jerry Reed to be the Bandit but changed his role after he convinced Burt, the biggest movie star at the time, to be in the field. Burt got 1 million dollars of the limited 4.3 million budget as his pay. Burt contacted Sally thru her agent and got her a copy of the script to read. He told her he thought they could make the dialogue better working together, and she really wanted the chance to headline a big movie. Hal didn't think she was pretty enough, but Burt convinced him. Burt also talked Jackie Gleason into doing Sheriff Justice by telling him he could pretty much write all his own dialogue. It was Jackie's idea for Junior to be in the car with him as he said he couldn't do his type of comedy without someone to bounce off of.
4:40 :) that made me laugh, it was so funny. Howdy from Texas, Emma! This movie was one of my favorites growing up, I still can sing the song.
Jerry Reid ... AKA Snowman is an incredible song writer & guitarist .... he wrote & performed theme song "East Bound & Down"
110 Miles per hour ... is 177 Kilometers per hour
Sheriff Branford being taller on radio was a tongue in cheek reference to him being black
Burt & Sally dated off & on for 6 years after making this movie
Burt was engaged to Sally for quite a while but they never married but he did marry Loni Anderson frome WKRP TV show. He had a farm in Jupiter, Florida where he kept all his memorabilia including the vehicles from this movie and I met him once there.
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Two movies, both from 1977, which had the biggest impact on my life, was this one, and "Convoy". Both movies made me want to be a trucker....now I am one. 10-4 good buddy.
Love Convoy, and Cannonball run is another good film
Whst's your handle. My uncle,cousin and I all used Flying Frenchman
@@curtisberard7831 My handle was Buster.
CONVOY is a truckdriver movie at the same time. 70s.
I'd love to see a Convoy reaction. Barely any out there - or none at all? Besides SATB one of my very favorite movies. Kris Kristofferson, Ernest Borgnine and Burt Young. Fantastic movie and like this one here with a great soundtrack.
@@alexhaas9653 Iam totally with you.
"Deliverance" (1972) starring Burt Reynolds (without the mustache) and Jon Voight, is a whitewater backcountry adventure film that you need to consider.
Oscar nominated for Best Picture among other nominations. Rated 4 to 5 stars by everyone. Reynolds was a tv actor, but this movie made him into a movie star.
One of my favorites. Fun fact the motorcycle cop played Deputy Enos in The Dukes of Hazzard TV show. I got another movie reaction suggestion for you it's another one of my favorites, The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz. It's like Top Gun meets Back to the Future.
Thxs Emma, my 2nd all time favourite movie!!! Especially the theme song "East Bound and Down", a must driving song!!. RIP Jerry Reed, Burt Reynolds & Jackie Gleason
This movie made the Trans Am Camaro *THE CAR* for nearly a decade.
*Firebird
@@SGlitz Firebird is Pontiac. Camaro was Chevrolet
Yes, Finally Did This Great Classic Movie & As Always Love Seeing Your Reactions Sweetheart ❤, Please Do Smokey & The Bandit 2,You Will Definitely Love That One Forsure
My last wife was much younger and when I tried to get her to watch this she said "I don't watch old timey movies" I was too shocked to even be crushed lol
Playing the Sherriff : Jackie Gleason, was an American actor, comedian, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One", a sort of tongue in cheek running joke every one liked. He developed a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, and was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his city bus driver character Ralph Kramden in the television series The Honeymooners. He also developed The Jackie Gleason Show [variety show], which maintained high ratings from the mid-1950s through 1970. His father abandoned the family, his older brother had died at age14, Gleason was 19 when his mother died. He had nowhere to go and 36 cents to his name. From 36 cents to his name to total stardom...that's pretty impressive. hi performance in Smokey here was praised by the critics and he truly stole every scene he was in. He should have gotten a Best Supporting Actor Award for this role. He was funny as hell. It was Burt Reynolds who recruited him for the film.
One of my all-time favorites. Glad you liked it so much.
I had two of those Pontiac Trans Ams a few years after this movie came out. They were a special edition called the Blackbird. Both were 1977 models. My Father and Brother both owned their own Semi Trucks and drove all across the country. This was a special movie for all of us. Star Wars was number one, Smokey and the Bandit was number 2, and The Spy Who Loved Me with James Bond rounded out the top three fort 1977.
9:19 You also have to remember that this is a speed in some miles per hour, not in good old kilometers per hour.
This movie jumped the Pontiac Firebird into a Top Seller for GM. It also started the CB radio craze then. I got one for my car and quickly you could order a New Car with a Factory installed CB radio. That died out after a few years. Now everyone has Cell Phones but it's just not the same.
You should react to Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins playing together on your music channel. Both were amazing players, Chet taught Jerry some of his techniques.
As we say down South, "Hell, yeah." My dad was a big Atkins fan, it made him happy when his rock-loving teenage son became a Reed fan. Was a TV show in about 1975, IIRC.
I grew up a couple of miles from where they filmed the opening and closing scenes at Lakewood Fairgrounds in Atlanta.
I lived in Jonesboro 2 miles from Snowmans house the summer of '76 & got to see the Trans Am coming out of the truck & in Spring of '77 we moved to Covington where I got to be in the 1st episode of Dukes of Hazzard Dec '78, Cannonball Run 1981 where Burt lands his plane to get beer & my '78 Ttop Z28 was in a chase scene in Heat of the Night 1992! Seen the Bandit for the last time at the 40th anniversary of SATB in Jonesboro 2017! Went to a few races at Lakewood & rode the coaster a couple times before it was destroyed in Smokey & the Bandit II & also went to a lot of concerts in the 80s & 90s at Lakewood Amphitheater
@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman I learned how to drive a straight shift in the parking lot of the Amphitheater while it was under construction... and went to a bazillion Jimmy Buffett concerts there.
Awesome Reaction Video 🎉
The character "Foxy Lady" was played by the legendary singer Brenda Lee. Someone that you could check into on your music channel 😊
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The majority of this movie was filmed around Atlanta. My wife is from Atlanta so she personally knew where a lot of the scenes were recorded. For instance, the Coors warehouse that was supposed to be in Texarkana, Texas was in reality in Conyers, Georgia east of Atlanta (and my father-in-law worked there at one time), the scene where Bandit loses the cop at night in the town center where he looks at the camera was actually filmed in McDonough, Georgia and the missing bridge that Bandit jumps is now by a bunch of subdivisions southeast of Atlanta close to where my father-in-law is buried.
This was much more relevant in the late 70's. CB (Citizens Band) radios were huge, and monitored by the FCC: you needed a license to use one legally. CB radio clubs were popular.
You didn't need a license to have a CB radio. I had a car that had a cb/ am/fm radio from the factory. You needed a license to have a LMR radio
The song by Jerry Reed Eastbound and Down never gets old! Love seeing this reacted too! Way to go Emma!
Hugely under rated guitarist and songwriter.
Not too long after this and the sequel, Burt Reynolds was being presented with a lifetime achievement award of some kind. From around the crowd, hy ere comes Jackue Gleason in full Buford T. Justice uniform and persona. Gleason proceeds togive a non-stop Bufird style monolog, stalking all around the room, promising all kinds of mayhem when he catches the Bandit.
Other fun movies of Burt and cars...Stroker Ace and the Canninball Run movies. The latter has massive casts of major celebs of the time.
*always* watch for a blooper reel during and after the credits on Burt's movies!😊
Lol. I just randomly decided to search for any reactions to this movie, ten minutes after you posted! Gonna enjoy this one! ❤
Thank you Emma! Everybody loves this story! Burt and Sally married not too long after the movie, and lasted some years as a married couple. Burt made it clear that she was the love of his life. Sally later won two (!!) Academy Awards, becoming one of the most acclaimed actors in the world.
Jerry sang most of the songs! He acted wonderfully, in spite of his main job as a major country musician.
They were never married.
@@bossfan49 Wow, thank you for the correction! Oh, how time has clouded (and sweetened) my memory of their relationship. I forgot what a controlling and misogynistic guy he was. Much appreciated!
@@bossfan49 Thank you for for the correction!
Fantastic!!!!! This is a STAPLE if you live in the South!!!! ❤'iT,,,,,you should look into Jerry Reed Fantastic Musician/Writer & Actor
Hooper is a good Burt Reynolds movie that everyone forgets about. He plays an aging stuntman trying to compete with a young ambitious up and comer.
Wow. It’s been years since I’ve watched this one. Thank you
This movie's so cute. Had to jump in here and see you with it. It's light. But there's so much talent in here!
Sally Field and Burt Reynolds had a complicated relationship that began when they met on the set of Smokey and the Bandit in 1977 and lasted until 1982
Thanks for labeling this one Emma. Cheers!
"Ready Roy, I was born ready" They were referring to Roy Rogers who was one of the biggest cowboy actors and singers. He did almost 90 movies and had his own tv show. It was Roy Rogers that side swiped the sheriff's car a few scenes later. He said "Bonzii" with the white cowboy hat and took the door off.
Roy Rogers was Asian?
@@zedwpd No, he just said that as he rammed the car
this movie is far up in my favo list,for decades!!
Great theme song written and performed for the movie by Jerry Reed, who played the truck driver Cledus.
Just tuned in - I’m going to predict that Emma falls in love with Burt!
i follow you and as soon as i seen the reaction to arm spray . i knew i seen you do this before . i like respect for truckers not for them we have nothing. Should be better paid than politicians .
Emma, if you really liked this film, you should watch Hooper. It has the same director with Hal Needham and stars Burt and Sally. It is a movie about stuntmen in particular Burt in the title role.
Omg, haven't seen this since like the early 80's I bet... first time ever I see someone reacting to it :)
There's only one thing I take my hat off for... Emma's Reactions ❤
One of the greatest chase movies.
12:44 -- RE: "Ha! I love the mood of this guy."; A: Fun Fact! Country-Western music recording legend Jerry Reed, a fierce guitar picking man and a singer to boot. He's got a few songs in video games, "Amos Moses" was in GTA: San Andreas.
110 miles per hour not kilometers. Jerrry Reed the Cletus truck driver wrote and performed the music in the movie. One of the greatest guitarist ever.
110mph would be double the speed limit. The USA had speed limit of 55mph for some reason.
That car only has 200hp from a 6.6l V8 LOL
yet was the 2nd fastest car in 1978 behind the Dodge Lil Red Express pickup truck
55 mph speed limits were implemented by the government because they thought it would save gas during the gas shortages of the 1970's.
Also, during the 70's, the government forced car manufacturers to basically muzzle car engines to improve gas efficiency.
It was supposed to help the "energy crisis"
I love it when young people do reactions to old movies. Especially when they are concerned about car safety and things like that. The 1970's in America was a free spirit kind of time. We had seat belts but never used them. We used to drive with our girlfriends cuddled on our lap. Our mothers held us in their laps in the car when we were babies. We used to ride in the back of pickup trucks going down the highway. We did a lot of things in the 1970's that were considered normal then but would be considered child endangerment today.
Also another great one with Burt... The Cannonball Run.
I saw this first run in a drive in movie theatre, leaving was a challenge.
This movie is a classic so glad emma is doing it big thumbs up
I don't know about anyone else but I recommend watching the second Smokie and the Bandit. But, definitely not the third one.
Saw this probably 20 times in the theater when it first came out. Loved it then... still do.
Glad to see you liked it. Texas... yeah...
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
The truck driver was Country singer Jerry Reed. He's also the one singing the theme song.
your imitation of a texan accent cracks me up
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In case you didn’t know the guy who sings all the songs and the song is Jerry Reid, who is also the truck driver in this movie
I love it when you impersonate the characters voices and you're usually spot on ! Thanks Emma keep up the good work 😊
Thank you! Will do!
Now you GOTTA WATCH,,,The Cannonball Run,,,think you'll love it😊
Sheriff Buford, Jackie Gleason, had TV shows for years. It was a variety show where a skit from it, The Honeymooners, became a hit on its own. He starred in a great movie The Hustler with Paul Newman. He was composer and conductor.
At the time this movie was made Coors be was not allowed to be sold in many states because it was cold filtered not pasteurized. I don't think it was allowed to be sold east of the Mississippi River, thus the reason it was considered bootlegging and illegal
as i recall it wasent illegal it was just too much of a hassle since you had to use a reefer trailer. so coors never sold thier beers in those states so in the movie it would be illegal since they are a 3rd party bootlegging
I first saw Sally Field as the star of the TV show, "The Flying Nun."
The only movie reaction channel brave enough to watch this movie on Halloween.
My other editor is sick and I couldn't upload Halloween Movie today! You are right!🙏
@@Emma_Reactions I'm sorry your editor is sick but I'm glad we got a non-Halloween movie. They aren't my favorite :)
I saw this at the Drive-In when it came out.
😍😍Sally Field😍😍 What a doll! ❤
Sheriff Buford T. Justice!!!!
everytime i saw that this movie was on TV i dropped whatever i was doing to watch it.
Most of Jackie Gleason's lines in the diner were mostly ad-libed.
Just so much fun! Good job dealing with the accents!! Not an easy task. Seems like you got most of it. Great reaction!
The short guy who plays Little Enos? That's Paul Williams. Apart from acting, Paul is a prolific award winning songwriter, has won an Oscar, three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Ivor Novello International Award and earned induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is As President and Chairman of the Board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). But country singer Jerry Reed, who plays truck driving Snowman, wrote and sang the theme song. He demanded the song as a condition to acting in the show.
Sally Fields before she gave birth to Forrest Gump.
Burt is Forests dad who went on vacation! Lol
great reaction emma lovve your comedy reactions
Well that was a blast from the past, CB Radio's, Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason all having fun
and plenty of mayhem on the road, all added up to a great hour or so, so thanks for that Emma;
Plus an enjoyable, charming/witty and stylish reaction, with Emma looking mighty fine, beautiful and elegant;
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Forrest Gump's mom looking her best. Always a cutie. Love that Trans Am.
Classic movie from a classic time in America. I saw it in the theater when it came out in 1977. The trucker craze was going wild and the CB radio was the must have technology of the time. The reference to 110 miles an hour indicates that the Bandit was going twice the legal speed limit on America's highways at the time. The 55 mile per hour speed limit was the law of the land on highways and it was not popular. You also mentioned that Sally Field and Burt Reynolds looked good together and that is probably because they were together in a romantic relationship for years. They did a few movies together in the late 1970's.
It was a fun movie when it first came out and still a fun time revisiting the movie. Great reaction and continue to review the oldies. Thank you Emma. And by the way, you do not have a stupid smile. 😃
Jerry Reed personified the "Louisiana Accent" before the "Cajun Chef", Justin Wilson did. ..."we're Eastbound, now watch ol' Bandit run."
The good old days before cameras & lots of police 😂
You mentioned that you're romantic person - then french movie "Amelie" will melt you like butter melts on a hot pan