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#Burt reynolds smokey and the bandit ornagutan movie#

I would have had a Jerry Reed doll to play with but they didn't make them. When I was a little girl, I had three Jerry Reed albums. A mustachioed 40-something Burt Reynolds in tight jeans and a cowboy hat driving fast? Hell, yes. Who not only sang the theme tune, but who starred as Cledus Snow, Bandit's decidedly less handsome but equally law-snubbing partner in crime. And don't forget the Greg Evigan's BJ and the Bear (this was pre My Two Dads), in which, like Every Which Way But Loose, the lead character had himself a simian companion- NB: Bear was a chimp while Clyde was an orangutan.) Best of all, Smokey and the Bandit had Jerry Reed. It's got Sally 'You Really Like Me' Field, who we haven't heard much from in awhile but who was everywhere in the glorious 70s, wasn't she? It's got trucks, trucks, and more trucks ('member the whole 'Convoy Chic' of the same era? You had the Sam Peckinpah Kris Kristofferson / Ali McGraw vehicle (heh) Convoy which, believe it or not, AFTER the song 'Convoy' and not the other way around, as well as the Red Sovine tear-jerkin' song 'Teddy Bear' about the trucker and the fatherless, paraplegic little boy. Justice, that foul-mouthed coon-dog of a Smokey. It's got Jackie Gleason as Sherrif Buford T.

It's got beer (bootleg Coors, to be exact). Listen kids, I was country when country wasn't cool, so I know these things.

#Burt reynolds smokey and the bandit ornagutan movie#

Has this movie gotten its proper due in the history of cinema? Absolutely not.

I've probably seen it some 20 times since then. And if I remember correctly, we were sitting in lawn chairs in the back of the pick-up truck whilst drinking Shasta sodas (or perhaps they were even Kroger-brand knock offs of Shasta sody pops, which somehow makes the whole enterprise even redder-necked). Nay, the first time I saw this movie was when it came out. This is not the first time I've seen this movie. Or so says Bo 'The Bandit' Darville as played by Burt Reynolds to Sally Field in response to her dancer's legs in the hillbilly classic, Smokey and the Bandit, which I watched last night.