We’re on track for Christmas 2025 and I’m continuing the fractured phrase: Hooray for Hollyweird! Most of us love movies and I enjoy recommending what you should watch on any given day. So, Hooray for Hollyweird … and for today’s recommendation, let’s go with the arguably biggest comedy-action film of the 1970s: “Smokey and the Bandit” with Burt Reynolds and Jackie “The Great One” Gleason.
“Smokey and the Bandit” is, at its heart, a car-chase movie and Burt, whose CB character is “Bo Darville” and his “handle” is the “Bandit,” does a great job and Gleason introduced himself to a new generation of fans as “Sheriff Buford T. Justice,” whose “handle” is “Smokey Bear.”
You see, Burt’s been challenged to bring an 18-wheeler full of Coors beer from Texarkana, Texas, to Atlanta – and at the time Coors beer wasn’t registered to be sold east of the Mississippi River (they call it “bootlegging” in the film, but it was more of an administrative thing than true “bootlegging”).
Burt picks up a hitchhiker (Sally Field, who’s CB nickname becomes “Frog”) and, unknown to Burt, she’s fleeing a wedding and running from Gleason’s son. Of course, Gleason chasing Burt is the soul of “Smokey and the Bandit.”
I don’t need to set up “Smokey and the Bandit” any longer for you since you’ve probably caught it several times. You simply will enjoy “Smokey and the Bandit” … and then you’ll definitely say … “Hooray for Hollyweird!”
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