Smokey and the Bandit (1977): 20 Things You Never Knew!
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Get ready to hit the road with 20 fascinating facts about Smokey and the Bandit! This 1977 classic became an unexpected box office hit, but there’s so much more to this high-octane adventure than meets the eye. From the real-life inspiration behind the plot to the surprising challenges faced during production, we’re diving deep into the stories that fueled this iconic film.
Whether you’re a fan of Burt Reynolds’ charm, Sally Field’s wit, or Jackie Gleason’s comedic genius, this video has something for everyone. Buckle up and enjoy the ride as we explore the world of Smokey and the Bandit like never before!
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Every character was perfectly cast, a truly brilliant fun film. You don`t see anything close to this these days.
I can't imagine this movie without the trans-am, Burt, Jackie, Sally or Jerry, pure classic
Don't worry...Hollywood will do a re-make in a few more years and completely destroy it like all the other 'remakes' they've done...😡😡😡
The TV version overdubbed Jackie's SOMBITCH and Don't Jack off- Don't even take a piss!😁🤭😣
WAY TO GO suits behind a desk!!😡
@@DaveC_TN They managed to destroy it already with Smokey and the Bandit 3. While it has a bit of Burt and still keeps Jackie and Jerry, it is almost completely unwatchable. The original script had Buford Justice as the Bandit, but it was so nonsensical that Gleason refused it and Jerry Reed was brought in to be the Bandit (with him all giddy about the "promotion"). Burt only appears in a cameo, and Sally doesn't appear at all.
Let me have a Diablo Sandwich and a Dr Pepper and make it fast; I'm in a got-damn hurry!
In other words, Can I have $5 worth of diarrhea please.
Sheriff (to Junior): You want somethin’?
Junior: Hushpuppies, daddy!
Sheriff: WE AIN’T GOT TIME FOR THAT CRAP!
@@Hardwareman1343 “Ain’t nobody chasing me, boy….” 😂
Rip Jackie Gleason
@@spaz-tech Bank robber?
This and the Blues Brothers are my all time favorite movies.
I love that movie. Perfect example of a FUN ROMP movie. Set your troubles aside, and just enjoy a couple hours of pure entertainment. Gleason is great, Reynolds is great, God rest their souls.
And don't forget that this movie also contributed to the spike in C.B. Radio sales as well.
Exactly !!
I remember when cars, even CADILLACs came with CB radios!
They can still be a lot of fun. Me and all my friends had em in our pickup trucks in high school in the late 90s/early 2000s. Racing down the backroads and going to pasture parties, it was easier to duck the sheriffs and state troopers with CBs. This was back when you had to have a lot of $$ to have a cell phone, and you paid by the minute if you did have one. LOL.
Great call by Mr. Gleason on adding another character to work off of. I feel his responses to Junior, are the majority of funny lines of those movies.
Definitely some of the best.
And, of course, it allowed them to work in the main reason for the chase--Sally dumping Junior at the altar and Justice chasing them to do a shotgun wedding.
This was one of the most iconic 1970's movie ever made!! I absolutely LOVED this film and remember seeing it on the OG Home Box Office back when HBO was an actual cable company (That was in South Florida, before they became ComCast...)
How lucky for you that the truck in the convoy had SUBSCRIBE written on it.
I hope that was a joke
@@robertself5930Yes, it was.
Coors was never actually illegal, it was just hard to transport given its not being pasteurized. Once they secured a brewery on the East Coast it was sold everywhere.
Iconic...perfect plot..perfect cast...filming.. masterpiece
I like that you keep your videos under 10 minutes. No unnecessary dribble. Thanks.
No problem 👍
How can Sally Field and ugly be used in the same sentence!
Wonder that too.
It beggars belief.
"I'm gonna barbecue your ass in molasses!!!!!!"
My absolute favorite movie line of all time. Jackie Gleason was the best.
I always liked that scene when Buford was riding in the car talking about imagining Carry coming back to the church.
"I can see her now, running up that isle, no, she was dancing. Knockers bouncing all over the place. And her ass was wiggling too." 😂😂 The facisl expression he was making is hilarious.
@@joetroutt7425 oh, you know it.
The TV edit is one where he suddenly sounded like Fred Flintstone.😂😂😂
Editing slamming on the brakes pedal before jumping the bridge kills me! Lol
Absolutely one of my favourite films EVER!!! 🎥 🎞 🍿 😋
S & TB , Convoy (Dads a Trucker) Maximum Overdrive & the Blues Brothers
Burt should have waived his salary saying “I’ll take 1.5% from all profits: Movie, sequels, ,merchandising, video sales and rentals, reruns.”
😂❤❤❤😂❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂
Burt wasn't ever known as being a deep thinker.
No one,not even Burt thought that it would be as big as it became,his friends begged him not to take the role,waving his paycheck in lieu of a percentage wasn t an option.
$1,000,000 back then
Is worth more than $50,000,000 today
@@fastinradfordable
Wrong. It would be worth 5,527,943.76 in 2024 USD.
Boy there ain’t no way you came from my loins…..!!!!!!
Buford T Justice
"As soon as we get home, I'm gonna punch your mama in the mouff".😂😂😂😂
You forgot the part where Pontiac promised Bert a new car every year and did it for a while then they stopped
Awesome video!
This was one of my favorite films growing up. In '78 my dad bought a corporate official car, a '77 Coupe de Ville d'Elegance, and it had a CB radio built into the cheesy Delco stereo. Folks, I have to tell you, truck drivers back then worked profanity into an art! Some of the stuff we heard driving to Flori-Duh had me and my brother giggling for hours! It was awesome.
The '77 Pontiac Trans Am? There were actually TWO different cars, one with the blue painted Pontiac 400 engine, and the other with the gold painted Oldsmobile 403. Of the two the 400 Pontiac was definitely faster, but this was a 3500 pound car with 200 hp (W72), which resulted in a car that would reach 60 mph in about 7.7 seconds, primarily due to the 3:23 axle ratio. The Olds 403 (L80) version had about 180 hp, and took about 8.3 seconds to reach 60.
To put that in perspective a modern Toyota Camry with a V6 can do the same in 5.8 seconds...
Stock, these were mid 15's in the quarter at around 90 mph, not that fast. But it was a fun movie nonetheless!
Yea that car was pathetically slow. 455 cubic inches of nothing but noise.
Pontiac had 2 versions of the 400, one was the base L78 6.6 LITRE 180hp which is what the Bandit Trans Am had & the other was the W72 T/A 6.6 220hp
Absolutely one of the greatest action comedy movies of all time! It's one of those movies that you can watch over and over again and STILL laugh because the cast had perfect chemistry working together, which in my opinion is what makes great movies... I saw the movie in the theater as a teenager and countless times on tv, vhs, dvd, ect... My youngest kids are teenagers and THEY love it, which is an example that the movie stands the test of time... I have family that live in Franklin Tennessee and Jerry Reed lived on one side of them and Marty Robbins on the other. They were at Jerry's house celebrating his 41st birthday and Burt Reynolds showed up in a new Trans Am, which he gave to Jerry as his birthday present! They said Jerry was a great, down to earth neighbor and Burt was very nice and treated them like he knew them for years! Most celebrities nowadays are not like that at all; Hollywood is not like that anymore... Pathetic
You forgot to mention the great Jerry Reed in your intro. He made the movie what it was just as much as the others. Him and Fred. LOL.
You forgot to watch the video.
One of my all time favourite movies ever
Here’s a fun fact
Sally Fields was always gorgeous with that girl next-door look!
I don’t care what anyone says,the W900 A model was the star vehicle.
All 150 hp.
@eriklarson9137 doesn't matter. That model of KW is iconic in its look no matter what power plant is under the hood!
It remains in my top 10 movies all time. I’ve prob seen it over 100 times. Laugh every time.
In addition to the EIGHT copies of the film that I possess, I also have a VHS copy of the TV Edit, which I had just happened to randomly record as it aired. The “Fred Flintstone” ADR’s are absolutely comical. 🤣
A tv edit I love is when Buford is talking to the black sheriff and his son at the same time. "HOLD IT ONE JERK AT A TIME" thats actually better than movie version "one shit at a time"
I almost expected him to exclaime YABBA-DABBA-DOOOOO! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The connection between Jackie Gleason and Fred Flintstone isn't all that odd. Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble were based on Jackie Gleason and Art Carney in "The Honeymooners".
Who's calling Sally Field ugly?
Someone that is not attracted to beautiful women
People thought that Sally Field was UGLY??!!!??!!!!!
Damn......
Just how wrong can you be....
Have you got a Vauxhall Viva?
@@abenormal9075 I did. That avatar photo is of the car I had. I have sold it now though. But I loved that two-door. It was under-powered for what it was, but I have also seen people drop the CF Bedford van slant-four 2L into these(and change the box and diff!!!), and they can really move then!
@@VauxhallViva1975 Shame you haven't still got it, maybe one day you'll get another. Back in the 70s my dad had a Vauxhall Magnum 2300, apparently it was a two door but not the coupe version
I saw this movie as a kid and fell in love with the car. Burt's clothing reminds me of my dad who dressed like him and sadly passed away in 2015. I'm in my mid-50s and drive a Maybach 57s V12 6.0 liter and am still in love with that Trans Am ❤.
I saw this in the theaters in 1977, boy am I old. In all seriousness, an amazing and fun production. Oh, and I bought a Trans-Am in 1979 ;)
Jackie Gleason was a master at his craft. What more can one say.
You forgot one thing, apparently the part where the snowmans truck hits sheriff buford t justices car was not planned
In my world Jackie Gleason was the star who made the movie. Jerry's character was the most likeable and down to earth guy in the movie, and Burt played his usual arrogant, pretty boy self.
Who the hell would call Sally Field ugly she was so cute in this movie
Sally Field was a super cute woman
Not really related but it's funny to see how much beer has changed since this movie was filmed... from people "smuggling" Coors to having 500 types of beer available at every corner store!
Any time a coworker mentions places to go for lunch, "Hush Puppies Daddy" always goes through my head.
Sally's been BEAUTIFUL AS Long as I can remember Loved her in Sibbal, The End & Smokey and the Bandit, & others 👍👍👍👍👍👍
You can see where the A Post on the Pontiac Sheriff’s cruiser was neatly cut.
Top film.. this is the film that started my crush on Sally Feilds.. i was 11 at the time....
I was 16-17 same effect
I can think of at least 1 more thing that a lot of people probably never knew...that being...how Sally Field was able to get in and out of those jeans...LOL
My Dad was doing income taxes and my mother was helping him in GC Murphy's at Seminary South shopping center in Fort Worth back in 1977. My brother and I (10 and 11 years old then) went to the General Cinema and watched Smokey and the Bandit 3 times. Back then that was a PG movie. You only had G, PG, R. The 1970's was also the decade of the disaster movies. Airport, Airport75,77,79, Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, Gray Lady Down, just to name a few. Seen them all.
The Trans-am was absolutely the right choice for the movie. Imagine the movie with a Mustang 2. 😂😂😂
This was a really good video. Not going to lie, I didn't know most of that. Jackie Gleason was awesome improvising his lines. That generally makes a much better outcome - this movie was cast perfectly and executed flawlessly
Loved this series of movies back then another series was cannonball run
I remember watching it for the first time on my uncles huge projection screen tv. This was long before anyone else had anything like it and nobody had any kind of VCR's. His was a beta video tape. All gifts from his friend's he did business with in Japan. We watched it at our family Christmas party. I think we watched it at least 4 times. lol I remember all of the adults coming down to watch it. My dad loved Jacky Gleason and laughed his ass off. That TV and beta player became the center of our get togethers. Every year he would have a handful of new movies to watch. Still one of my favorite movies ever.
In my opinion, Jackie Gleason made this film a success. But that is my opinion.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion. For years, whenever I watched the edited version on TV, I always wondered why Burford T. Justice would suddenly sound like Fred Flintstone...now I know. 😅
The Diablo sandwich was not actually on the menu at the diner. It is now.
I believe the diner is closed
@@tomcapehart1878 Google is hard. It closed in 2014. Uncle Jello will probably still tell the story anyway.
Having the voice of Fred Flintstone dub over Jackie Gleason actually was full circle as the Flintstones was dreamed up as an animated version of the Honeymooners which stared Gleason.
I saw this movie on TV a million times growing up and thought "scumbum" was an actual thing to say (until I got old enough to know what he was actually saying). I think it's time to bring "scumbum" back!
I’ll give you another one Rocky: When Burt Reynolds is driving Jerry Reed as he’s standing on the front of the forklift (when they’re stealing the beer at the warehouse) and he slams on the brakes, (launching Jerry Reed over the top of the stack of beer cases), if you pause just as he’s coming over the back of the stack, you can see that the beer boxes are all empty.
His loyalty to Needham set the stage for Stroker Ace which he did instead of Terms of Endearment. The latter was a blockbuster and the former bombed.
"Are we really doing 100 MPH ?? " ... No Sally, you were doing 100 KPH. It was a metric speedo they clipped to, when Sally asked Burt.
she actually said 110 which was in KPH but only 68 in mph! The speedo was correct if you look at the screen shot, she just seen the bigger number
@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman yer right, I meant to poke fun at the film makers for using a metric speedo. I'm certain American cars of that era were in MPH. The car that rolled out of the truck in the movie had 6.6 Liter on the hood scoop. Which I don't think any of the American cars had. I think they used one that was built for Canada, thus having the metric speedo and hood scoop decal. Did the Trans-am's in the states, or certain states have metric markings in the late 70's ?
@@lorinpierce7704The cars sold in America did in fact have either 6.6 liter or 400 TA on the scoop. The 2 engines that general motors used were the Pontiac 400 6.6 liter and the Oldsmobile 403 engine.
And the transmission is in “park.”
Eighty five hundred thousand? Is that even a number? It's like my kid saying a gazillion billion dollars.
Mike Henry played”Junior”. Mike a former Professional American Football Player (Linebacker) co-,starred with Burt Reynolds a few years earlier in the movie “The Longest Yard”. Mike played one of the guards/ football players. Mike also appeared as one of the many Tarzan’s in the 1960 s.
For those of you who are across the pond this movie is considered a documentary in most parts of the U.S.
had one of those cars for a while and I loved the dog and Snowman
Love the movie. Thanks for the great video. I like the way you put Subscribe on the truck😂
Glad you liked it!
American Graffiti 😮 wow that car got around didn’t it. Great video 🥰
It was originally Project X from Hot Rod Magazine in 1965. It was also in Hollywood Knights with Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer.
@@larrysherman5254 don't forget the '55 was also in the film 'Two-Lane Blacktop' with James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, and Dennis Wilson as well!.....
Universal Pictures got its moneys worth outta this car!
@@larrysherman5254 Talk about a little gem of a movie, Hollywood Knights. It might have not been that popular, but I thought it was a good funny movie.
1977 what a great year for movies
The Sheriff's car was a LeMans, not a Bonneville. The Bonneville was a full sized car, the LeMans was the midsized model.
Also the Trans Am was really a '76 car with a '77 front clip.
One of the greatest movie
Funfact: during the first act, while they are on the way to get the beer loaded, the lyrics of the title song are changed to „westbound and down“
From "West bound and down/eighteen wheels a-rollin" to the better known "East bound and down/loaded up and truckin".
Best movie ever. I still haven't seen Star Wars.
love this movie!
I thought this would be clickbait. But I didn't actually know many of these!
another piece of trivia about Coors Beer it was not allowed to be sold in Washington State and Olympia Beer was not allowed to be sold in Colorado an agreement between the 2 companies due to they both Its the water as their tag line ..
I saw Smokey in 1977 (and hundred times after ) i was 17 at the time and led to me owning Firebirds and Camaros for the next 50 years...
Love Camaros and esp firebirds .. even before they became famous!!
Very very well done, I was 16 and had just moved to California from a Wisconsin dairy farm. I was finally able to go out and see whatever I wanted. Three of the four are still among my favorites. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and observe my name, his wasn't Robert, but Bertram.
Nice, what part of Wisconsun? Who's milking the cows now???
@@cowboykody6775 St Croix county no dairy farms in the area anymore, everyone is growing corn for ethanol, or soybeans.
Sheriff In early dodge commercials was also an influence on Buford and sonny shoryer(enos from dukes) was a motorcycle cop uncredited.
I remember when the "scum bum" phrase aired. We all used it relentlessly after that😂😂😂😂
Years ago I met one of the actors that played a cop in the movie.
Enos from Dukes of Hazard? He played the motorcycle cop.
I’m sure Pontiac would have never figured that there SE T/A was developed for there 50th anniversary in 76 would be referred to being called “Bandit “cars. Shows the influence this movie had for the T/A . No other car would have worked the magic
In a video about "things you never knew," I'm shocked there was no mention that there are TWO songs from Reed. "East Bound and Down" is the more well known, but before they pick up the beer and start heading back, the song played is "WEST Bound and Down."
I was looking for that comment
Major plot hole of this movie: Coors beer, not legal east of the Mississippi because of it needed constant refrigeration, was picked up from a non- refrigerated warehouse to be transported in a non refrigerated trailer.
The trailer had a reefer unit on it!!! Its a NWD Thermo-King. They didnt show them running it. Also, how do you know the beer depot wasnt refridgerated.???
@cowboykody6775 OK, I didn't see the reefer unit on the trailer so my bad there. However, there is no way the area that the beer was at was refrigerated as there wasn't any indication of that there, plus I know for a fact it couldn't be as my father-in-law worked at that warehouse in Conyers, Georgia that was filmed at but hey, it's a movie so I should just suspend my disbelief.
I asked my (smart son) to figure out was bootlegging was (besides making-selling fake items). I said how can transporting beer be illegal with with elimination of prohibition. He said its probably because delivery trucks were traveling thru whats called "dry counties". Dry meaning that prohibition was ineffect still in certain counties.
@@cowboykody6775you could just tell.
@@davidfrederick6003 Lynchburg, Tennessee where they make Jack Daniel’s is a dry county, you have to drive to the next county to try some
Breaking the 4th wall was a no go at the time, they were told they shouldn't do it...but Burt pulled it off in style, as always!
One thing you didn't mention was the rise in popularity of the CB radio that came from the film - there was a time in 1978 when it seemed like every third or fourth car on the road had a long whip antenna and a CB radio.
Also, we kids belittled the term 'Scumbum' mercilessly - it was just so ridiculous!
My older sisters dad ended up buying her a 1977 Smoking, the bandit special Trans Am no they weren’t that fast unless you were hot and knew him and my older brother worked their magic that car became known as the beer money car on the weekends if they didn’t have beer money two hours later, they had money for two or three weeks because that damn car run just about everything in Marengo county short of our brothers old Ford hot rod he had which wouldn’t mean things take on and outrun for a 15 year old First car that thing was a hoot to ride in because she was 15. I’m much younger but God we both missed that car.
The film was beautifully cast!
Jackie Gleason not only drank heavily but he smoked six packs a day!
I saw Sally Field in the worst movie ever made"stay hungry"with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jeff Bridges, and I fell in love with Sally Fields even though I'm a year younger
I have never seen that, I am going to hunt for it now that you have said it's the worst movie ever. It sounds intriguing! 😂
An obvious "Thing You Never Knew" involving the scene in #20.
The "Diablo Sandwich" scene was Jackie Gleason's idea. He wanted to make it clear that he had no idea who he was actually chasing, having never seen the Bandit in person. While this is clear when he arrests a local police captain having a romp in an RV, Gleason wanted it more apparent by adding the extended conversation between Bandit and Justice where the sheriff didn't realize who he was talking to.
And, of course, this is again shown in the final scene when Bandit has the Sheriff look over his shoulder to see him and Carrie sitting in the Burdette's convertible.
Sally Field ugly? I've been crushing on that girl since "The Flying Nun".
Junior , played by Mike Henry, was once Tarzan and for a short time an NFL player
Fred Flintstone is based on Ralph Cramden
He also played Lt. Col
Donald Pinopscot (Margaret's fiancé on M*A*S*H).
Wow. 2nd highest earning movie in 77....
Why are they hauling an elephant in the second movie when the first one ended in a double or nothing for clam chowder. Why aren't they hauling chowder?
My mom worked on the production of the trans-am and firebird appliques, along with other automotive overlay, such as "wood" trim. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and the nasty chemicals she worked with gave her cancer and killed her.
The police cars driven by Gleason were not Pontiac Bonnevilles in the first movie but they were in the second movie. The first movie was using a Pontiac Lemans for Gleason’s patrol car.
When they cut one million from the budget,
Burt should've forgo his salary and asked for a percentage.
Oddly in 1989, there was an episode of "in the heat of the night" where Alan Autry's character Bubba Skinner uses the word sumbitch so it was allowed on network TV at least later on in the late 80s.
Always a fun movie to watch.
I saw it at the movies when I was a kid . I had taped the movie when it was shown on TV and watched it lots of times. I'd just like to find a copy of the movie with the original 1977 monaural recording. The sound effects were all changed for the 2006 rerelease.
This is one of my favorite movies, having watched it countless times. I have it on DVD, along with the two so-so sequels. The music is great, although it took me years to understand in the song "The Legend" at the opening the words "Mount Eagle." Jackie Gleason and Fred steal the show. And I have 1/18 and 1/24 scale diecast models of the 1977 Trans Am, the smaller one even including Bandit's hat.
There were actually 6 sequels,the last 4 going straight to video.
The Trans Am helped make the movie. Another car in mind? Like what a 77 Mustang Cobra 2?
Burt was cheated out of his free Trans-Am, he had to buy his own!
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Wow, thanks!
8:00 NO. Burt Reynolds was promised a Trans Am but never got it. He talked about that a lot in interviews.
I saw this movie when it was new in the theatre,
Lovie Jackie Gleason
Another connection between Jackie Gleason and the Flintstones is the fact that The Flintstones was a not so thinly veiled cartoon version of The Honeymooners. It was Gleason's final decision not to force Hanna- Barbera to cease and desist Flintstones production. Gleason didn't want to be known as the man who killed The Flintstones.
I love this movie 😊