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Written by James M. Tate / 8/30/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , alfie wise , burt reynolds , cop , hal needham , jackie gleason , mike henry , paul williams , road movie , sally field , seventies

BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED IN 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEFwEIBTWrD0aumiMkX0bnzbOaNATUsmGETiOqyOz2rj7ha2YHhFrC6I5cS1XHN8W8PJkh2-VHZ5n6YTW5PbFe4h0ZoFDbESplJA7pgjklUBMZPFmYno2Dd70c32XvF6PFV3kjsZWvuckvGJ4R89Z8bvps8zQ8Wz6piw_3PodeXFtwsEgOIIHlh3zuDuF/s1852/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-03%20at%206.53.59%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1852" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEFwEIBTWrD0aumiMkX0bnzbOaNATUsmGETiOqyOz2rj7ha2YHhFrC6I5cS1XHN8W8PJkh2-VHZ5n6YTW5PbFe4h0ZoFDbESplJA7pgjklUBMZPFmYno2Dd70c32XvF6PFV3kjsZWvuckvGJ4R89Z8bvps8zQ8Wz6piw_3PodeXFtwsEgOIIHlh3zuDuF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-03%20at%206.53.59%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt Reynolds in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT Year: 1977 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>While SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has been maligned for not allowing Burt Reynolds to continue his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/deliverance.html">DELIVERANCE</a> style of worthwhile acting, it should be complimented for finally perfecting the good-old-boy persona/rural car-chase action he ignited in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/06/white-lightning.html">WHITE LIGHTNING</a>...Mostly thanks to the director, who was already a veteran stuntman, as Hal Needham brought the action up front to where the characters — from Jerry Reed's trucker Snowman to Burt's Trans-Am driving cop-blocking Bandit — flows smoothly along with the trek and the reason behind it...

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BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED IN 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT'

Burt Reynolds in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT Year: 1977 Rating: **** While SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has been maligned for not allowing Burt Reynolds ...

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVING HAL NEEDHAM'S 'THE CANNONBALL RUN'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1WmjGKS1Cs1V0_Pswj9GoW7M-2pD9_ocAFhgn6H578BWQN3enIHoiLgBAMGCzIMlGMu0DAVnuO7MtmnHwSmrD3Emxjr3eVsSwpAy1P9UqhwmRHsmrcC50nQbQwzOVdyZU6Cd6WuAolGQyhM79zzDlNNkIqfgann2jHGvmZaZK_u9dM_AzpsvplKCOQ/s919/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="919" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1WmjGKS1Cs1V0_Pswj9GoW7M-2pD9_ocAFhgn6H578BWQN3enIHoiLgBAMGCzIMlGMu0DAVnuO7MtmnHwSmrD3Emxjr3eVsSwpAy1P9UqhwmRHsmrcC50nQbQwzOVdyZU6Cd6WuAolGQyhM79zzDlNNkIqfgann2jHGvmZaZK_u9dM_AzpsvplKCOQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt Reynolds in THE CANNONBALL RUN Year: 1981 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>After SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, director Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds had the car chase comedy down — actually more of a romantic adventure with humor derived from the situation effecting the characters... wherein THE CANNONBALL RUN is more of an intentional slapdash smashup where laughs happen at every turn (somewhat like the game-changing blockbuster AIRPLANE sans the genre-parody aspect)... Fully-loaded with an all-star cast ranging from Roger Moore pretending to be a guy pretending to be Moore as James Bond... to a Kung Fu fighting/biker-brawling Jackie Chan, an Arab Sheikh, two hot-rod hotties and...

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BURT REYNOLDS DRIVING HAL NEEDHAM'S 'THE CANNONBALL RUN'

Burt Reynolds in THE CANNONBALL RUN Year: 1981 Rating: ****1/2 After SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, director Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds had...

BURT REYNOLDS GETS CAPTURED FOR 'THE LONGEST YARD'

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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD2EmKs0xztng9r-jRfc-VVmIS25A8WeCFIwa_yBMoSxzplXOrxTvSs03tZDGLdEZB64abj3LEx75_aKesSR9n1mKMUAdVkHdb8m_4LrFnKIWk7SsYtRrjRvQDrogtfeARbh1C3hPeFeJJUpMfUWQx727zdytJPaIoo9aMVdTMSk-lpPg6ZWhd10v92g/s1037/the_longest_yard__1974__poster_by_a_jaded_smithy_d9qld7i_pre.0%202.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="1037" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD2EmKs0xztng9r-jRfc-VVmIS25A8WeCFIwa_yBMoSxzplXOrxTvSs03tZDGLdEZB64abj3LEx75_aKesSR9n1mKMUAdVkHdb8m_4LrFnKIWk7SsYtRrjRvQDrogtfeARbh1C3hPeFeJJUpMfUWQx727zdytJPaIoo9aMVdTMSk-lpPg6ZWhd10v92g/s16000/the_longest_yard__1974__poster_by_a_jaded_smithy_d9qld7i_pre.0%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt Reynolds in THE LONGEST YARD Director: Robert Aldrich Year: 1974 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Having experienced the many Burt Reynolds road flicks throughout the mid/late seventies and early eighties, you'd expect him to, in the very beginning as he's being chased by cops in a stolen hot rod, get away and avoid all punishment... </div><div> </div><div>Nothing doing in THE LONGEST YARD since Burt, playing a has-been football star, is sent to a backwards Florida work-camp where he's called upon by a power hungry warden (Eddie Albert backed by chief guard Ed Lauter) to start a team of convicts: who end up challenging the prison guard semi-pro outfit with a start-up game (fitfully helmed by DIRTY DOZEN prisoners-with-a-purpose director Robert Aldrich) ...</div>

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BURT REYNOLDS GETS CAPTURED FOR 'THE LONGEST YARD'

Burt Reynolds in THE LONGEST YARD Director: Robert Aldrich Year: 1974 Rating: **** Having experienced the many Burt Reynolds road flicks ...

BURT REYNOLDS WANTS TO HAVE YOUR BABY IN 'PATERNITY'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPyixHR9sk8JPDglJ9JQJqAkRiq3Km4yvHjfaLCJKoxp022l8rgvucUj9az6YUWld3qLUrhYjS8lC894rf5a31VkXg1EpFvD2WQFCNvBflPBKq02wp21V_1BM7ShMYcluzrjuUhzUP3ka42SizNJW9j0wXOs9FQ64hqQXjcGsorWvb3_MzjRIxc707t9rU/s1379/12.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="1379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPyixHR9sk8JPDglJ9JQJqAkRiq3Km4yvHjfaLCJKoxp022l8rgvucUj9az6YUWld3qLUrhYjS8lC894rf5a31VkXg1EpFvD2WQFCNvBflPBKq02wp21V_1BM7ShMYcluzrjuUhzUP3ka42SizNJW9j0wXOs9FQ64hqQXjcGsorWvb3_MzjRIxc707t9rU/s16000/12.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt Reynolds in PATERNITY with Aileen Quinn  </td></tr></tbody></table>In his string of romantic comedy films, and even his car chase flicks, Burt Reynolds is never alone. There's always an eclectic cast of characters supporting him along the process... 
 
But here’s a movie where Burt, playing extremely subtle as a single successful guy who yearns to have a baby, seems completely isolated, at first, and not only because he wants the child born through a surrogate mother...