That’s the sum total of the plot and the 97-minute running time is devoted to one long chase involving Reynolds and Field in a sporty Pontiac Trans Am, Reed and his dog in the 18-wheeler, Gleason and Henry in a patrol car that is slowly torn apart and various truckers, citizens band friends and bumbling cops. It turns out that her suitor (Mike Henry) was the son of the local sheriff (Jackie Gleason), who sets out in hot pursuit of the runaway bride. Louis': THR's 1944 Reviewīurt Reynolds stars as Bandit, a devil-may-care trucker who, with his sidekick, Snowman (Jerry Reed), accepts a challenge to go to Texarkana, Texas, pick up 400 cases of Coors beer and return to Atlanta, Georgia, (a round-trip total of 1,800 miles) within 28 hours.Īlong the way, he picks up Carrie (Sally Field), a Broadway gypsy who has just jilted someone at the altar. It’s a merry chase caper story line in which action is substituted for character or plot development. One of the last American frontiers is the open road, and the men who drive the 18-wheelers across these paved wildernesses are the ones who will provide our modern legends, according to Jerry Reed’s main credit song for Smokey and the Bandit, a Rastar production for Universal.Īnd, like most legends, the film is based almost solely on derring-do feats with little concern with substance and/or reality. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review of the action comedy is below.
On May 19, 1977, Universal premiered Burt Reynolds’ Smokey and the Bandit at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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