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I love how every time Roger Moore has a scene he's got a different Woman with him.
More James Bond, less The Saint 😉
The reason is because the first girl was almost killed and was wheelchair disabled for the rest of her life. A stunt man wrecked
All of them were voiced by June Foray.
Mel Tillis and Terry Bradshaw were an excellent team in this movie!!❤️❤️❤️
"We just out out out out lookin for a pack of cigarettes" one of my favorite movie lines.
"P...p...p...PLENTY!"
Have to say I prefer Mel in the sequel with Tonya Danza and the ape... Lol... Can't beat Sammy and Deano tho.
@@mcgilj1 some of the better bits in the very dissapointing sequel.
It didn’t seem like they were in it much
Earlier in their careers Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood both were under contracts at Universal Studios. As Burt tells the story, they both were fired on the same day. He stated, they met at a bar near the studio to commiserate losing their jobs.
Clint asked Burt what reason the studio boss gave him and Burt replied, "He said I couldn't act. And you?"
Clint replied, "He told me my Adam's Apple was too BIG." Burt started to chuckle and said, "That's too bad, buddy."
Clint became a bit angry and said, "Hey, why are you laughing? You're just as out of a job as me."
Burt replied, "Yeah, but I can always learn to act and you'll have that Adam's Apple for the rest of your life."
Great story. What was that movie they did together? White Heat?
@@beatmet2355 City Heat (1984) was the movie they did together. But they were fired in 1958 from UA. At the time both were under "contracts" with the studio. Back then, under their contract, actors would agree to make x-number of movies for x-number of dollars. They were not paid points or residuals. Residuals (royalties) began being paid on movies after 1960 and salaries based upon points is a bit newer of a concept. There is a famous story about the cast of Gilligan's Island who were paid their weekly salary of < $1000 and NOTHING more despite the show being syndicated for over 50 years. That story has been disputed by claims that their contracts actually provided residual payments for the first 4 or 5 times the episode was re-run which was the standard in 1964. But still the actors missed out on a ton of residual payments compared to what actors receive today. But back in 1958 actors were likely paid a flat amount for a film and nothing more.
Fun fact: Brock Yates actually drove the TransCon Medevac ambulance in the real Cannonball, and the part where the doctor explained the cysts on the lungs to the police really happened. Brock's wife was their "patient". The ambulance broke down and I don't think it finished.
Farah Fawcett?
Plus that was the original ambulance they used. I never understood the scene at the seven eleven when he says the car goes both ways. After seeing a doco on it l realised the ambulance has 4 fuel ports which makes it faster to fill.
I'm guessing you watched the comments part where they said .. exactly what you just said.
The crazy doctor is played by Jack Elam, whose left eye was blinded in a childhood accident. He mostly played creepy villains, playing off the eerie permanent stare of the dead eye, but occasionally also did roles like this that played it for laughs. And that also means there's two one-eyed actors in the film, with Sammy Davis Jr.
This film was a huge leap forward for one eye representation
Starred in a number of Westerns....alongside actors like John Wayne.
Watching old westerns, espeically the tv shows, he shows up all the time.
He was great in Support your Local Sheriff!
he was passing through on his way to Australia.
I was so excited when I saw this. This is one of those classic guilty pleasures. They put together an amazing cast for this one.
I also loved that we got multiple Emily snorts with this one.
I always thought the SECOND one had a bigger and better cast as well as more comedy, even if the story wasn't quite as good. After all the second one had Frank Sinatra, Ricardo Montalban , Telly Savalis, Richard Kiel, Tony Danza, Jim Nabors, and a lot of other big names that weren't in this one.
I would recommend "The Gumball Rally", another movie based on the Coast to Coast race. It stars Raul Julia in his first movie role.
A great film.
You gotta do Cannonball 2, also I think you did smokey and the bandit 1, definitely do part 2 as well, just as good and forget about pt 3. Yikes.
The first rule of Italian driving - whatsa behind you isa not important!
I absolutely agree, Do Cannonball 2 if you must for the ratings, but Please, Please, Please watch "The Gumball Rally" almost no one has done Gumball. its, as a whole a better movie, sans spoof than the Cannonballs.
Agree 💯%
Yes, Jackie was speaking Cantonese (Southern Chinese) with the odd Japanese word thrown in.
Loved seeing Corporal Klinger there (Jamie Farr) as the Shiek
Doesn't the Shiek make a longer appearance in Cannonball Run Part 2 ?
This is awesome that you watched a movie that I was in! Where Burt lands the plane to get beer I was standing with the crowd of folks on the corner where the plane turns around, I was in 10th grade in 1981 & had just gotten out of school & made it to the square just in time to see them land! This is the Covington Georgia square which is home of the Dukes of Hazzard which I was on the opposite side of the square in the very first episode 1978 right as the General Lee comes sliding onto the square {RUclips Dukes of Hazzard : Chase From 1st Episode} & Covington was also home to Heat of the Night which I had my 1978 Ttop Z28 in an episode 1992 but I reckon it was left on the cutting room floor as I never seen it in any episode! My family & I were actually living just outside Jonesboro the summer of '76 where Snowman's house was in Smokey & the Bandit & we moved to Covington the spring of '77! Those were some great times back then - PEACE LOVE n HIPPYNESS ✌❤☮
Growing up in NYC I wonder how many movies and TV shows I'm accidentally in the background of as I wandered by.
I can't wait for you guys to watch Cannonball Run ll 😂😂
Hello, ‘neighbor’!. I’ve lived all my life in Fayetteville and Peachtree City, GA. Born in ‘74 and grew up in Fayetteville only four miles away from many of the traveling scenes and Snowman’s dog is in the pond in S&tB on highway 54. Heheh. 🙂
Now, after Pinewood (called something different now) opened studios only a couple of miles down the road about 10 years ago, it’s not been odd to randomly see folks from The Walking Dead and major ‘Hollywood’ productions in town.
Odd shift, to be sure.
(Obviously, now that TWD is over, none of them any longer)
This is one of those movies I loved as a kid shortly after it came out, then as an adult realize how dumb it really is….yet watch it completely when it’s on and still love it.
Farah Fawcet was such a doll.
The Bloopers are the best part.🤣
It takes a special kind of crazy genius to come up with a concept like Roger Moore playing a lunatic who thinks he's Roger Moore (and not Simon Templar or James Bond, just Roger Moore).
You mean like Sgt. Lincoln Osyris' Robert Downey Jr ? :-)
You forgot Beau Maverick.
And Roger Moore agrees to take this role... While he his still under contract as the current James Bond. How the hell he got away with this I do not know.. Brosnan's contact said he wasn't even allowed to wear a tuxedo in any other movie he made while playing Bond.
As originally scripted he was going to think he was James Bond but Eon Productions wouldn't let them use the name, hence he thinks he's Roger Moore -- but acts like James Bond.
The best part of this entire thing is how Emily's laugh fit right in with Burt and Dom's!!
During the pandemic lockdown, when there was no traffic, a new Cannonball record was set, 26 hour, 38 minutes.
As I recall this was the only movie I saw at theatre with my father...He never had time for me, but as he wanted to see the movie he also came along...So it's always had some meaning for me.
The memories I had when I first saw this movie in the theater are priceless. This was practically a "who's who" of Hollywood greats compiled in a zany cornucopia of madness. I love this movie because it's so fun to watch. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but then again, it doesn't need to. Just a great escape from the grips of reality is what this movie gives me. Afterwards, I come to the reality that 90% of the principle cast in this movie has passed away, but here I can remember when they were in this movie they had was much fun making this movie was I did watching it....... Especially the outtakes!!
The line where you say it's a who's who of Hollywood greats is basically the best way to describe this movie if you had to do it in one sentence.
The late, sorely missed Roger Ebert dubbed this movie "Hollywood Squares on Wheels", and I agree.
Sadly (unlike me), he did *not* intend it for a compliment. 🤭
One of my favorite childhood movies, every time my family went on a long car trip, I'd pretend we were in the race. The movie is very rewatchable because there is a bunch of hidden jokes in it. A lot of it though goes over modern audiences heads because the jokes were timely to the era. One you may not have noticed, the leader of the biker gang is Peter Fonda, who was in Easy Rider.
Get outta my brain!
You have done Cannonball Run along with Smokey and the Bandit so you are now ready for Hooper.
Or Stroker Ace
The Cannonball Run is actually the third movie based on the real life illegal cross-country race known as the "Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash," which was held five times in the 1970s in protest against the newly-established 55 MPH speed limit. The previous two films based on the illegal race were The Gumball Rally with Michael Sarrazin and Raul Julia, and Cannonball with David Carradine, both of which came out in 1976, five years before The Cannonball Run was released.
No one remembers Canonball or that awesome Scorsese/Stallone cameo in that movie. Gumball was the better movie but Cannonball was fun too.
Imo The Gumball Rally is the best of the lot.
@@zneezer It was. The Gumball Rally had those epic chase scenes between Julia in the '72 Ferrari GTS 4 Daytona Spyder and Sarrazin in the '66 AC Shelby Cobra 427.
@@nluna75
As it happens, I remember *Cannonball* very fondly as well as the aforementioned cameos. With the Reynolds movie, it makes for a great double feature (just make sure you see the Carradine film first). 😁
"The Gumball Rally" is THE Best car movie ever made !!! 😎👍
I have a story about this movie. I spent half my youth in Massachusetts. We moved to Ohio in 1985, but my folks rented the Mass. house out. The man who rented it was a business man whose ventures included mechanical services for exotic cars and car-themed clubs. For some reason, he not only had possession of the Cannonball Run Lambo, but he drove it. He kept it in our garage for a year!!! My neighborhood friends, who were about 15 at the time, witnessed it through the garage door windows.
The Countach was bought on-set by the founder of Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion, and he owned it until not too long ago (there's a video on RUclips about the car, that was done last year).
I forget who the original owner was, but he actualky didn't own the car for very long at all (I think a few weeks, if that long).
@@Britcarjunkie Is it possible the guy lied about the origins of the car? Sure. I never saw the car or met him. The last I heard of him around 1986, he was beaten with a baseball bat...maybe for lies?
@@cshubs Perhaps he owned the one used in the sequel?
To put this film in historical context: it came out during the summer of 1981; a summer that was dominated by comedies (Stripes), action movies (For Your Eyes Only), superhero movies (Superman II), and an adventure with an archaeologist named Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark). The fact that it was well received, and fared great against those films, shows the legacy of this film, and how timeless it is.
I remember going to this movie as a kid, and even though I at the time I was unfamiliar with much of the cast, I loved it so much. After multiple rewatches as I got older (and knowing more and more of these actors), it was even better. I also grew up as a huge Joe Theisman fan, so the sequel was a must-watch as well (the pairing of Jackie Chan and Jaws from the James Bond movies was pretty awesome too).
Another old movie like this that You might like is “Support Your Local Sheriff”.
Arguably Jack Elam’s finest hour (and 32 minutes)
That is a much better movie than cannonball run, so i fully support the nomination
@@hempsellastro was that the one where he was shoveling sh... er... working in the stables?
And the sequel to Support Your Local Sheriff.
One of my all time favs again. Directed by a fellow memphian, the late great Hal Needham.
I see "The Gumball Rally" and "Cannonball" are already being recommended, so I'll go back a little bit further: the 1965 comedy "The Great Race", based on the real-life 1908 New York To Paris Race, where the racers had to travel from New York, New York to Paris, France... traveling _west._ It's best known for two things: being the primary inspiration for the cartoon "Wacky Races", and for a certain scene that's been called "the greatest pie fight ever."
It is a great pie fight.
Burt and Dom also team up in "The End"...
GREAT movie! Underappreciated comedy.
fun fact: Brock Yates, who having created the real-life Cannonball Run, wrote the film directly for the screen, plays the race organizer of who lays down the rules at the starting line. Director Hal Needham appears uncredited as the ambulance EMT. He's the guy who says, "You can smoke thru traffic like shot thru a gun in this thing."
Lmao. I’m 42 and old enough to get the madam joke for the first time. That’s why you have to revisit your old classics.
I fell in love with “The Last Dragon” all over again when I watched it in my 20’s. 😶🌫️
Funny movie. Gumball Rally is still my favorite. You can see the love and friendship between Burt and Dom.
I LOVE this movie!! When I was a teenager, this movie was on heavy rotation on HBO and I must have watched it 30 times! I never got tired of it! Especially the outtakes at the end!
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is the grandpa of this type of movie. You mentioned it so now you need to watch it. All 3+ Hrs of it! 😬
My favorite part of this movie, because I used to say it all the time as a teenager, was the bit with Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin... Because you're small, small, S-M-ALL!"
So glad that I grew up with this film, it's sequel and the Smokey and the Bandits. I've always suspected the critic's hated this film mainly because they saw it nothing more than a bunch of huge stars enjoying themselves and having fun. Which is for me the main reason I love it. It was either Hal Needham or Albert S. Ruddy who said on the director's commentary that at an early screening people actually stood and applauded the opening titles just for cast list. We really will never see the like again.
I love when Dom says "Mr Martin laughed first"
Of all the times I have seen this movie I just realized that the main villain in the movie was named "Arthur J. Foyt". One of the most famous drivers at the Indy 500 Races about the time this movie was made is named A.J. Foyt. Clearly, this was meant to be an Easter Egg that I totally missed.
Actually, the REAL "Cannonball Run" was, um, kinda "sponsored" by a very famous automotive magazine, and run annually by some very famous celebrities and race car drivers. Of COURSE this movie depiction was made WAAAAAAAY more hysterically funny than what happened in the real races, BUT critics and audiences alike SIMPLY ADORED IT!!! 👍l💋
Fun fact: The gorgeous waitress that The Sheik (Jamie Farr) wants to add to his harem appeared in Playboy (I managed to find a copy of it on eBay).
You didn't know you needed Captain Chaos in your life...until you have Captain Chaos in your life...Movie brings back memories (Saw it originally at a drive-in)
Love this movie. I watched it all the time as a kid. One nit-pick I have is the inconsistency with the rules of the race. At the beginning, it cleary states that the winner is determined by whoever has the shortest time between their start and finish times. But at the end, the winner is just whoever crosses the finish line first.
Small gripe, but has always bothered me.
“What the hell is this?!” This is my favorite guilty pleasure movie, along with the sequel. I often pop one on whenever I’m in a bad mood.
Fun Fact: Doing this movie was what inspired Jackie Chan to start putting blooper reels in all his movies.
The female cop is Miss Tessmacher from Superman 1 and 2.
Miss TessMACHEEERRRRRRR!!
Ahhh yes. Never realized that.
Man I had to drop a comment because I'm thrilled someone is finally doing this movie. It was a favorite of mine and my brothers growing up. It needs to be reacted to by the right people though because it's packed with stars that some won't recognize but I know you guys will. Haven't watched it in over 20 years and I can't wait to see how it holds up!
I’ve been waiting so long for ANYONE to react to this classic!!!!LOVE IT!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
I love two characters: Roger Moore who thinks he's 007 and Jackie Chan who thinks he's Jackie Chan... LOL. Great one guys, Matthew for choosing this one and Emily for yourself. :)
Jackie Chan IS Jackie Chan. but a motor racing one. Roger Moore;s character is classic because he thinks he's Roger Moore, but can't distinguish him from 007. Maybe it's because his mother is too Jewish or something.
4:37: “ Been a cop long?” , has now been added to my arsenal of ‘ things to say if I ever get pulled over ‘. 🚗🚓
From experience don’t ask “do you come here often?”
She needs to see "Smokey and the Bandit II" for some more Burt and Dom , as well as some of the best Buford T. lines ever!
No one else has reacted to this. Just like Smoky and the Bandit. You guys are the only ones doing it.
Holy hellfire 'n brimstone, I had totally forgotten just how hilarious this film is! I haven't seen it in decades; somehow it just fell through the cracks...but that shall be remedied thusly 😂🤣
It was said that Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr were drunk in almost every scene. Plus, the biker that Jackie Chan beats up was Peter Fonda.
The producer of this movie (that Matthew forgot) was Albert S. Ruddy, who won the Oscar for Best Picture for 'The Godfather' and 'Million Dollar Baby'. The story of the making of 'The Godfather' is the basis of 'The Offer' on Paramount Plus (which is AMAZING, btw). Ruddy and Needham also did 'Cannonball Run II' & 'Megaforce' together. Both 'Cannonball' films and 'Megaforce' are on my favorite dumb/silly films list.
The two shieks complaining about Jamie Farr...are the film's producers.
Funny:
I got to talk with Dom and Peter DeLuise at L.A. Airport for a few minutes, one night: I worked there, and they were looking for the British Caledonian Airways ticket counter.
Several years later, I got to say hello to Burt Reynolds, at a newsstand in Van Nuys!
Btw, Burt and Dom were best friends, along with Jerry Reed.
When this came out, Jackie Chan was unknown to 90% of Americans: us kids that watched the B-martial arts flicks on weekends knew who he was, though, and we went crazy when we saw his name in the credits.
Oh, the guy with the nasty stutter, is country legend Mel Tillis, and that really was his stutter!
Another "oh", the hotel at the end of the film, The Portofino Inn, is still there.
Last "oh": I think the opening scenes were filmed on US95 between Henderson, NV., and Boulder City...the hotel they pass near a curve in the road looks kind of like the Railroad Pass Hotel/Casino.
I know he wasn't in this but R.I.P RAY LIOTTA. 😔🕯🙏
This is off topic, but I would love to see you guys watch some Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies.
Yesss the best 🔥🔥💯💯🔥🔥
It's said that The Moustache still lives on to this day on the royalties from this movie...
Loved your reaction as always!
At 08:55 he was impersonating President Richard Nixon, who preceded many public comments with "Let me make one thing perfectly clear", which is funny since he hadn´t been president for over 7 years by the time this movie came out. Also, you are going to love "It´s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (1963)
Jackie Chan was a massive star at home, and at the time of this movie was trying to bust into American Cinema. He tried just a few times, but America just wasnt ready. Cannonball Run was - he deemed -- his last shot.
If it didnt pan out, he'd return home and continue to be a megastar in his own country.
It failed. He got no American work. He returned home and made a lot of money.
This continued for almost 2 decades, and on a whim -- since he was already massively successful --- he did a movie with Chris Tucker called Rush Hour.
Unexpectedly, it was the American hit Jackie always wanted for himself. SInce then, he moved himself and his stunt team to America where he became the icon he is today.
He put out "A Rumble In The Bronx" years before Rush Hour and suddenly everyone knew his name over here. He had about 3 or 4 more before Rush Hour was his big budget "Hollywood" breakout.
@@Deathbird_Mitch oh shoot. you're right: my mistake. I thought those movies came out after rush hour. I didnt remember him getting much press until Rush Hour but i was probably outta touch during that time.
@@Deathbird_Mitch Rumble in the Bronx wasn't a Hollywood film. It was a Hong Kong production shot in Canada. It just had a wider release.
When that movie was first released on VHS back in the early 80's I used to come home and watch it EVERY day after school for months. It drove my parents nuts, but I was obsessed with it. It never gets old to me. One of my favorite movies of all time.
Critics weren't very kind to Burt Reynolds when he was making his big money movies in the late 70s and early 80s. One of the biggest regrets of Burt's life was that he never won an Oscar, though he was nominated once for his role in _Boogie Nights._
P.S.: A team from _Car and Driver_ (or some such magazine) did one last unofficial Cannonball Run a couple of years ago during the height of the 'rona. They did it because so few cars were on the road, they could blow though major cities. Places like NYC and LA, where you'd normally be stuck in traffic for hours, could be left in the dust in like 30 minutes. They said they set a record of somewhere around 25 hours, coast to coast. That record can't be broken, because the roads will never be that clear again.
Burt had the best laught.
I absolutely love this movie and i know the plot isnt important but it always bugged me how the winner scene made no sense. They clocked in after each other, it was never about who reached the finish first but who had the shortest time between the punch clocks.
Exactly correct! That always bothered me, too! The gals left long before a lot of the others, so just because they clocked in at the end, meant nothing.
@@chuckvt5196 it bothered me too until I realised it really doesn't matter, and I let it go. mind you, it would have been funny if someone who left later just quietly punched their clock in the background while the Captain USA stuff was going on.
I'm glad someone else noticed this.
When I was in 3rd grade my school had a movie night and this what they showed. I loved it then and I love it still.
Your channel has, yet again, come through with a hard to get classic. Not saying it’s the best, it doesn’t matter. So fun, even if….”she” hated it…..(see what I did there?). When I first got cable, this was in all the time, and yes, I watched every time. Only afterwards did I appreciate it had two of brat pack, Jackie Chan, James Bond, mr Reynolds, Bradshaw….Lolol. Y’all are great.
You might have meant _'...two of the Rat Pack...'_ 😀
@@carlhartwell7978 yeah, spellcheck got me when I wasn’t paying attention.
@@mrlol2238 👍
I watched a documentary on the race and the "official" race ended when a friend of the organiser called him up and showed him this super high horse power sports car he had brought for the race and he realised that there was no way that his friend could safely drive the car.
In one of those every cloud has a silver lining people have kept breaking the record and during Covid the record was broken again because there was less cars and police on the road.
There is a very similar and I think earlier move called the Gumball Rally that might be worth a look.
It's the black Lamborghini they used in the movie.
@@duckrutt Thank I drew a blank I remembered black and sports car but couldn't pull up type
@@alankohn6709 It get it, believe me I get it.
Secret between you and me? I double checked with my Yates Cannonball book before I clicked reply.
Side note. that mention of Lamborghini isn't in the index but a story about Wilt Chamberlain is so that had me worried.
@@duckrutt I'm sure that Doco is on RUclips but couldn't tell you where it was really interesting but I watched while I was sick so I wasn't tracking well
"The Cannonball Run Countach" Found it when I was searching for a video of the opening chase. Fun documentary.
Love this movie. It's sadly overlooked alot. And many of the stars are not so well known by the current generation. They made a few movies like this with tons of 'names' just stacked in the cast for a silly, nonsense movie to keep everyone laughing.
it was like the studio called everyone and said " hey, got a month free, wanna have some fun? "
You gotta see the sequal! Great classic of legends. You'll never see them again.
"Robot Chicken" has an awesome take on "The Cannonball Run".
Headless Ponch!
Absolutely great movie! You can tell how big some of these names were when Dom DeLuise referred to Dean Martin as "Mr. Martin" at the end. Some big respect right there.
This is the first movie I ever remember seeing that had outtakes playing over the credits.
I'm not sure if it was the first, but it certainly popularised it.
OMG... FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The scene with the New Jersey state troopers when they asked why she had to be driven actually happened. There was an interview with them once the movie came out and they told their side of it.
THE movie responsible for all of the Bloopers/Out-takes we have today.
They’re still called Cannonball Run bloopers.
Jackie Chan Stated in an interview that Burt Reynolds was the only one in the movie that knew who he was. Reynolds gave Chan a hug and made home feel welcomed. Cannonball Run, Cannonball Run II, and Cannonball Run III (aka Speed Zone) were co-produced by Hong Kong studio Golden Harvest.
I’m so happy you are watching this movie! I was a little boy, when this came out and it was a great bonding event for my Dad and I. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️
"I must warn you. I'm Roger Moore" LOL
Such a classic.
I'm not at all a huge fan of all of the remakes that Hollywood does but I think this is one that would be fun to do. I actually read that it's in the works.
Another Fun Fact: This movie is where Jackie Chan first became aware of the idea of closing credits with outtakes. He had never seen it, and loved the idea so much that he began using it in all of his movies.
Please don't forget Clint Eastwood as Philo Beddoe in Every Wich Way But Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980)
These 2 movies are funny as hell.
And it has a smart ape and Geoffrey Lewis and Sondra Locke in it.
Just make sure to stay off of Mamma's grass. (she has a shotgun)
Rodger Moore getting tossed from the car while screaming "Oy Vey!" Brilliant.
I haven't seen this is years. Such an amazing cast.
I used to watch this movie daily! Unfortunately, there are those who think that movies should be serious art and not take the piss, Thankfully we have movies like this to help us let loose and have a giggle. One of my favorite jokes in the movie was "what about food son? did ya bring enough food? Hands over a bag of Cheeto's, Plenty!"
One of my favorite movies of all time. I've watched it countless times, and each time it's as enjoyable as the first.
For those who didn't catch it, the Shiek is Jamie Farr aka Klinger
A lot of people don't know that there were 3 Cannonball Run movies made. The third Cannonball Run movie was named Speed Zone which stars John Candy and many other stars. Unfortunately, Burt Reynolds is not in that one and the movie is kind of forgotten about. I think that movie is mainly found on VHS and maybe some DVD bootleg copies of the VHS. VHS rips of Speed Zone can also be viewed on RUclips. The first 2 were the best and were childhood favorites of mine.
The best part of the movie to me was after when my Dad tried to explain to my 8 year old brother why the audience laughed at the "Two milks" part.
The only time I dressed up for a comic con, I went as Captain Chaos!
Only 3 recognised who I was, with one shaking my hand for being original!
People still do the Cannonball Run, just not anything like this. Generally it's a single car, with anywhere from 1 to 4 people in it & sharing the driving duties, along with various people recruited online to run interference with police along the route & assist with speeding up pit stops (I know at least one run featured a highly illegal car-to-car fuel transfer in the middle of the desert). One famous modern-day Cannonballer (and former record holder) is Ed Bolian, founder & regular contributor to the VinWiki RUclips channel.
I remember hearing that they even scouted gas stations. They timed pumps and payment to find the absolute fastest stops possible.
I like his one video about outrunning his credit card company's identity theft algorithm.
"I'm not going to explain how it's possible, but it's possible." :-D
The most remarkable thing about this movie for me is that it features Roger Moore playing a character who is pretending to be Roger Moore who is pretending to be an English spy. That's not too remarkable - I'm sure other actors whould take the piss out of roles they'd previously played for the right paycheck - but he did while still the current James Bond. God knows how he managed to get away with this.
Loved his line "When I was in Egypt filming "The Fly who Bugged me"", lol.
And he has a new girl in the car every scene. Just like a new Bond girl in every movie.
While I love the Bond Franchise, This is my favorite Roger Moore movie.
Hal Needham said in interviews they almost got sued over that. Especially the 007 theme song which was just one note different enough in this movie that MGM didn't sic the lawyers on them. And after this Roger Moore and every actor who played James Bond since have a clause in their contract that they couldn't play a spy in another movie or or do a spoof of spy movies because Cannonball Run.
Reynolds and Deluise do a great movie called The End, I haven't seen it since i was a kid, but remember it to be funny. I saw Cannonball Run in the theaters, I think i was 10 or 11 depending on when it came out. I remember my friends and I quoting this movie all year, before that we were talking quoting Airplane! great reaction as always, keep up the great work.
And Silent Movie!
Love how you figured out what movie to react to next when she brought up Rat Race.
The eternal quest... for the giant W.
Mel Tillis who played the stutterer is a cournty western artist actually has a stutter and became a singer to help with his problem.
"I think they're armed" "Damn I hope so" - Merika, keeping all chambers loaded since we were founded!
I guess I always preferred Cannonball Run 2 to the first one. Kind of a Terminator/T2 thing I guess - first one's good, but the second one's better.
I believe there was a pseudo-sequel in the form of a 1989 movie called Speed Zone. The only returning cast from the first two is Jamie Farr as the Sheik, but additional cast include John Candy, Peter Boyle, and The Smothers Brothers. I would assume the name change was due to licensing the 'Cannonball' name - the first movie was from 20th Century Fox, the second was Warner Brothers, and the third was from Orion. This probably meant that name rights were a nightmare.
Same, I think I like the second because I saw it first.
Rip to all those who were in this great classic movie,we still miss you all
Aye - and ever shall. 😞
I'm not expecting many highly intelligent and philosophical comments about this film, it's just pure fun.
The red car that Terry Bradshaw and Mel Tillis drive is an actual car from Nascar. The driver was Donnie Allison.
So, little trivia bit based on Emilys reaction of "Y'all killed someone!" to the spinning police car. No, no one was killed. However, stunt performer Heidi von Beltz was paralyzed during a stunt in this movie in an Aston Martin with no seatbelts. It was supposed to weave through traffic and ended up hitting an oncoming vehicle head on.
This was one of the silliest movies to come out in the 80's, and I loved every bit of it.
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I've always been into cars, so I loved the car aspect of it when I was a young kid. And my fondness for this and the 2nd part has only further engrained itself into my heart as time has gone on. I am glad you guys enjoyed this movie as much as I have!
Cannonball run is totally a awesome classic but for some reason that Cannonball run 3 Speed Zone intro scene is forever engrained in my mind. aslo John Candy is the man : D