Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

Release date: 1977-05-27
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Hal Needham
Production Co: Universal Pictures, Rastar Pictures
Genre: Action, Comedy
Rating: 7.0/10
Length: 1h 36min

Storyline

Bandit and Cledus are two truck-driving southerners who accept a dare from big-shots Big and Little Enos to pick up a truckload of beer from Texas and return it to them within a specified amount of time. Picking it up is simple enough, but as they are leaving Texas, Bandit unwittingly picks up Carrie, a hitchhiking bride-to-be who just left her groom, Junior, at the altar. Junior, however, is the son of Sheriff Buford T. Justice. And when Buford and Junior discover what has happened, they go on a "high-speed pursuit" across the Southeast to catch the bandit.

Plot Keywords

sheriff, coors beer, trucker, road movie, police chase, police officer, highway patrol, carsploitation, road trip, speed, roadblock, on the road, gas station, car chase, cb radio, truck driver, modern western, convoy, tow truck, musician

Short Review

While the joke wears thin very quickly, there are a number of amusing sequences, which are combined with some exciting road action to provide a mildly entertaining - and totally mindless - film.