I’d also highly recommend Deliverance, as Burt’s second best performance. But he deserved his Oscar nomination for effortlessly portraying the earnestly sleazy Jack Horner, another iconic character in his cinematic repertoire.
#Burt reynolds smokey and the bandit song movie#
Apparently he made a couple, which I will keep an eye out for when they pop up in the Amazon Prime Torture Dungeon, like this one did.įor my money, Burt’s best movie is Boogie Nights,although he’s not really the star or sole-reason it’s so good. What with his legendary mustache, I’m surprised Burt didn’t make that many of those made for TNT Channel Western movies that seemingly all star Kris Kristofferson or Sam Elliott. I still haven’t seen any of the ’80s Elmore Leonard cops and robbers movies, and practically none of Burt’s early Westerns. There’s still a ton of Burt Movies I’ve been meaning to get to. Buford T Justice is still probably the best example of the small-town crooked sheriff that often turns up in these kinds of movies. So yeah, everyone had seen this movie except me. And that’s 1977 money, where the average ticket cost around $2. Yeah, that’s astonishing for a goofy car crash movie that’s 99% dudes driving in automobiles. How successful was this movie? Apparently it grossed $300 million worldwide on a $4.3 million dollar budget.
Every scene he’s apoplectic and seemingly on the verge of a major heart attack. They are chased by the late, great Jackie Gleason having a ball playing one of the most foul-mouthed, loathsome cops this side of Harvey Keitel in The Bad Lieutenant. I’m still not sure why Coors is illegal here, but I’m guessing that in an effort to appeal to a wide audience, and boy did this movie appeal to a wide audience, they opted not to haul moonshine as that’s not nearly as wholesome as good ol’ American Coors. The wafer thin plot involves Burt and buddy Jerry Reed accepting a bet to haul a truckful of Coors (?) to Georgia. No, what I mean by a Bootlegging Movie is a particular brand of movie involving lots of muscle cars, car chases down dirt roads, crashes, babes, and fiddle music. Technically Untouchables is about bootlegging, but you know, it’s not the same. And I can sincerely say Smokey and the Bandit is the best bootlegging movie ever made. Everyone has pretty much seen it and formed their opinions, so there’s not much to add to the discussion, except that I recently have been catching up with a lot of the bootlegging movies of the ’70s lately, including Gator, which Burt indifferently directed and starred in. Universal Pictures Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
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