On the journey back, the Bandit picks up a Runaway Bride named Carrie (Field), making him the target of the jilted groom's father, Sheriff Buford T. The Bandit recruits fellow trucker Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed) to make the journey with him, with the Bandit's Pontiac Firebird Trans Am acting as a blocker for Snowman's rig. The plot revolves around truck driver Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds), who is offered $80,000 to bootleg four hundred cases of Coors beer note At the time the movie was made, it was illegal to ship Coors in bulk to the southeastern US because Coors hadn't gotten around to acquiring the relevant business licenses yet from Texarkana, Texas, to the Southern Classic truck rodeo in Georgia within 28 hours. It is the Trope Codifier of the "Moonshiner on the run from Corrupt Hick cops" movie (even though, technically, moonshine had nothing to do with the plot of the films). But, apparently, his friends "got down on their knees with tears in their eyes and begged me not to do it.Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 action comedy film directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, and country singer Jerry Reed (who also sang the franchise's theme song, "East Bound and Down").
"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. 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. 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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