But, apparently, his friends "got down on their knees with tears in their eyes and begged me not to do it. Two sequels were made, Smokey and the Bandit II in 1980 and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 in 1983, the latter with Gleason and Reed but sans Reynolds and Field (. "I read it and I said, 'Hal, if you can get somebody to give you the money, I'll star in it and you can direct it,'" the movie star wrote. The idea of smuggling Coors beer across the country sparked Hal's imagination for Smokey and the Bandit, and Burt loved it. Starring: Burt Reynolds,Sally Field,Jackie Gleason. A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way. Unavailable on Basic with adverts plan due to licensing restrictions. īack then, Coors was not available east of the Mississippi River and could only be sold in 11 western states because it didn't have preservatives in it and had to be kept cold, The New York Times reports. Truck driver Bo 'Bandit' Darville (Burt Reynolds) agrees to pick up the beer in Texas and drive it to Georgia within 28 hours. 1977 Maturity rating: 13+ 1h 35m Comedies. Over time, he realized that the driver was "bootlegging" the beer and the maid was stealing it. Hal wrote on Fortunethat he was inspired to pen the film after a driver captain on set of Burt's 1976 movie Gator brought some Coors beer with him from California and asked Hal to hold a few cases of it in his hotel room. The story goes that Hal approached him with the "script" for the flick, which was handwritten on yellow pads.
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