Smokey and the Bandit (1977): 20 Things You Never Knew!
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- 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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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.
That Trans Am was incredibly underpowered ...
only 150 BHP
@@greatestytcommentator
Prolly a smog engine??
I was 12 when we went to see this and back then people actually cheered and clapped in the theater..miss you mum and pop,RIP Burt and Jackie and Jerry.🚛
I was 12 too. My Grandma took me. She thought it was a Smokey the Bear movie. Ha
I was 11 years old. I loved "Hooper" too. What a summer for movies: Star Wars, Close Encounters, Saturday Night Fever, geez!!
I also have to put a shout out for Clint Eastwood's "Every which way but Loose" which came out the next summer. That was awesome too. 👍😉
I was 11 went to see it after little league practice
Every character was perfectly cast, a truly brilliant fun film. You don`t see anything close to this these days.
1 million % agree with you
@@markbarker8034 the whole cast appears to be having a great time in the movie and the funny bloopers/outtakes during the ending credits are proof of it. I love this movie.
How true ..how true..they picked all actors as they should have..sheriff justice made the story strong on screen
Nobody would have played Buford T. Justice as well as Jackie Gleason did. That man was a comedy genius.
Agree 👍👍👍
Same could be said about Snowman - Jerry Reed was a home run
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.
How can anyone ever see Sally Field as anything but gorgeous?
She's been on my "Hollywood crush" list since I was a teenager back in the late 70's / early 80's.
That's what I said!
Totally agree. She is not glamorous she has natural beauty.
Absolutely agree, frog is just naturally beautiful
I like that you keep your videos under 10 minutes. No unnecessary dribble. Thanks.
No problem 👍
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.
"As soon as I get home the first thing I'm gonna do is PUNCH YOUR MAMA in the mouth"
I still Laugh when I think about that seen. Thanks junior!
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.
10-4 Big Buddy
Agree!! I still love CB radios and also have a number of them :)
Same with convoy
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...)
Iconic...perfect plot..perfect cast...filming.. masterpiece
It remains in my top 10 movies all time. I’ve prob seen it over 100 times. Laugh every time.
Me as well!!!
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?
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
When Justice encountered the black cop and said to him he sounded "taller" on the radio me and my family were dying laughing 😆👍🏿
Absolutely one of my favourite films EVER!!! 🎥 🎞 🍿 😋
S & TB , Convoy (Dads a Trucker) Maximum Overdrive & the Blues Brothers
While lots of people say Convoy was what got the CB radio craze going, it was actually S&tB 1/2 that did. Basically every boy in my elementary school worked hard to come up with a handle and the two or three of them who owned home CB units used to have us over to talk to truckers. Radio Shack must have sold a million of those units.
10-4 Big Buddy
Here’s a fun fact
Sally Fields was always gorgeous with that girl next-door look!
Yeah. Even in Forest gump! 😂
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.
One of my all time favourite movies ever
When burt Reynolds passed away i watched this movie all the way through for the first time in years as a tribute to him. One of my favorites
"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.😂😂😂
There is no way you could come from my loins....when I get home Im gonna punch yo mama in the mouth😂
Mine was… if they would have cremated that SB I be kicking that Mr Bandits ass around the moon by now….. they used that Moon phrase in honor of the honeymooners…
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
@@marvinheemeyer6660That model didn't have a 455 in it
@@karlepaul6632 + Ya might wanna Google that. The 455 was an option in every state EXCEPT California. It had a whopping 200 horspower. Know how I know? Because my dad had a 1969 AMC AMX with a 290 and Hurst 4 speed. Heads were shaved and the compression was raised to 12 to 1. Some missing chromosome in a 76 trans am challenged my dad. A 455 couldn't touch a lil ol 290.
It's amazing how well some actors just roll along and create gold by just going and filming as they go along... one of the best types of comedy out there in my opinion...
How lucky for you that the truck in the convoy had SUBSCRIBE written on it.
I hope that was a joke
@@robertself5930Yes, it was.
It's actually a Mandela Effect. My DVD actually has "Subscribe" on that truck now. I'm sure it wasn't there in the 70's.
@@CrowmagnonmanActually, I already knew that when I first posted my comment. I was just joking when I posted it.
I've watched the movie since then, and the truck definitely had something else written on the side.
Thank you cast and crew, you'll probably never know how many bandits and snowmen you made,every time I climb up steps on a tractor that song plays
Editing slamming on the brakes pedal before jumping the bridge kills me! Lol
This film was perfection in its time and now a classic and one of my personal favourites and massive part of my childhood
Jackie Gleason was a master at his craft. What more can one say.
This and Cannon Ball Run were always my faves, thanks for this!
"Smokey and the Bandit" still feels like "Cannonball Run" meets "CONVOY," but with a positive twist.
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 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 ;)
I have always loved the series of Smoky and the Bandit of films
This was back when movies were worth going to see at the theater.
Brilliant film. They all played their parts so well. Nice one.
The Dukes of Hazzard connection was amazing. 3 of the cast members had bit roles, including an uncredited role by Bo Duke who was the kid hit by the tire at the end of the movie. Deputy Eno was the cop who pulled over Snow Man and Cooter was the man with the red head (who was the Penthouse Pet of the year) talking to the Enos brothers. And later, Jon Schnider (Bo Duke), made some odd movie called "Stand On It" which was a tribute to Smokey and the Bandit and became friends with Reynolds and Needham as well - trying to reboot the southern boys with loud fast cars idea throughout the years.
“Daddy my hat blew off”
“ I hope your god damn head was in it “
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
Sally's been BEAUTIFUL AS Long as I can remember Loved her in Sibbal, The End & Smokey and the Bandit, & others 👍👍👍👍👍👍
One of the greatest movies ever made, still as funny and entertaining now as in my childhood.
Pure class
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.
Imagine craving Coors...
Who the hell would think Sally Field was anything but completely adorable? Crazy people, that's who!
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".
Great trivia that I'd never heard before (as a kid in the 70s). And Smokey & The Bandit is one of my first, most watched, and favorite video movies from getting our first VCR back in the day !! 👍🏻👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it
Absolutely hilarious, the good old days, miss them so much
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.
LOL Fred Flintstone covering for Buford T Justice!!
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.
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.
Rest in peace, Mike.
Smokey and the Bandit is one of my favourite Movies of all time, This film NEVER gets old I’ve watched this film like a Million times it just NEVER gets boring. I showed this film to my family they absolutely enjoyed.
The CAST
All the Actors and Actresses in this film are WONDERFUL. I wanted to wish Jackie Gleason, Burt Reynolds, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, Jerry Reed, and Sally Field FANTASTIC JOB. Jackie Gleason was the only ONE that made this film so popular and funny, I laughed a lot of lines when Jackie Gleason said so many Jokes.
But I got to tell this film was Unbelievable, I want to Wish THANK YOU so much to the director HAL NEEDHAM to create this Awesome film. One Thing I really love about this film was the Soundtrack: East Bound And Down, The Bandit, The Legend, and West Bound And Down were Amazing. I also want to wish thank you so much to Jerry Reed to put these Soundtracks in this film. One of my favourite scenes in this film is when Burt Reynolds and Sally Field went to a relaxing Swamp and talked about Life it also shows beautiful Nature and I love this the Music. SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 1977 Is THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE. GIVING SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT CREDIT: 100%.
had one of those cars for a while and I loved the dog and Snowman
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
Who the hell would call Sally Field ugly she was so cute in this movie
It was about her thoughts from an earlier movie. Like the punctuation in your comment (missing) you apparently missed that!
Love the movie. Thanks for the great video. I like the way you put Subscribe on the truck😂
Glad you liked it!
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!
Agree!
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.
You can see where the A Post on the Pontiac Sheriff’s cruiser was neatly cut.
How can Sally Field and ugly be used in the same sentence!
Wonder that too.
It beggars belief.
That’s what I want to know. Sally Field is gorgeous!!!
She wasn't ugly...but she wasn't movie star gorgeous though either...just an opinion, but a popular one
Good question.
In my opinion, Jackie Gleason made this film a success. But that is my opinion.
I completely agree!
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.
I watched this for the umpteenth time the other night. Still love this movie.
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. 😅
We dont need to know anything else about the movie because you can't change the fact that the movie will always be legendary no matter what you say or bring up about it.
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.
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.
Could not believe that was "his" favourite film! 😮
I'm fairly certain Sheriff Buford T. Justice's car was a LeMans, not a Bonneville.
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".
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!
Great film ....... and Sally is gorgeous ❤
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.
That's a fav! Since day one! 😁
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.
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.
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".😂😂😂😂
Who's calling Sally Field ugly?
Someone that is not attracted to beautiful women
She’s so beautiful.
Eh. She was just ok in my book
Yeah, Sally Field NOT sexy? It's like that slam in Family Guy too, a lot of jew writers are homosexuals...FUCK THEM!!!
@@yakfishin4912lol
Sally Field ugly? I've been crushing on that girl since "The Flying Nun".
One of the greatest movies ever!
Any time a coworker mentions places to go for lunch, "Hush Puppies Daddy" always goes through my head.
Always a fun movie to watch.
The Henry Corden connection is fascinating. It's broadly recognized that the Flintstones is clearly inspired by the Honeymooners and Fred Flintstone is analogous to Ralph Kramden. Ralph Kramden is of course acted by Jackie Gleason. I'm sure then that it was no accident that Corden was chosen to dub lines for Gleason.
love this movie!
The Line: *You Sum Bitches Couldn't Close An Umbrella* Hands Down Will Always Be The Best Line Of The Entire Movie.
Sheriff In early dodge commercials was also an influence on Buford and sonny shoryer(enos from dukes) was a motorcycle cop uncredited.
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
Coors Banquet is such a nice beer!!!!!
I actually loved the sequel as well (one of the rare times it's better than a great original).
And to this day when driving across long stretches of American highway I'll eventually put on Eastbound and Down...a truly great driving song. Just never got a convoy of trucks to help me speed.
managed to get my grandma to take us to this as kids because we convinced her it was themed after Smokey the Bear...boy was she surprised...
One of my all time favourite movies.
The first film was and still is the best one in my opinion with the follow up films not quite as good as I had expected from 2 and 3.
If one looks closely in the movie smokey and the bandit ..... Burt Reynolds is waiting for snowman to cstch up in truck the trans am is a 1976 model with the honeycomb alloys ......😁👍
Rewarched this recently! It’s still very enjoyable!
The sequel was … pretty bad. But this one was a fun watch!
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!
i was 11 years old when my dad took me to see Smokey and the Bandit, still one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. It's a real shame how they ruined the sequels when they had so much potential.
The second one wasn't too bad but not as good as the original!
Loved this series of movies back then another series was cannonball run
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
You forgot the part where Pontiac promised Bert a new car every year and did it for a while then they stopped
And the Trans-Ams they got were '76 models but they put a '77 front clip on them