Smokey and the Bandit...40 years ago!

[Ron M.]

Hundreds of fans in Trans Ams drove down to Atlanta to celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Smokey and the Bandit". Now I have to dig out the DVD! Dang but Buford T. Justice could come up some really good insults! "When we get home, I'm gonna belt your mama right in the mouth..."

 

[THE PILGRIM]

There's no way you could have come from my loins.

 

[dben002]

One of the best movies ever ... for sure ... Did a world of good for the Trans-Am also......(like it needed help ).

 

[jscheck]

I'll never forget

Still remember burning rubber out of the movie theater parking lot!

 

[Faulkner]

I was in high school when it was in the theaters. Took a date to see it on a Friday evening and we sat through it twice.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

What was the name of Jerry Reed's dog?
No Googleheiming!
Do you remember that Bass Hound's name?

 

[birdshooter]

You should read Hal Needham's book. Great stories about Burt, Smokey and much more.

 

[dben002]

What was the name of Jerry Reed's dog?
No Googleheiming!
Do you remember that Bass Hound's name?

Snowmans hound was named Fred....

 

[Ron M.]

What was the name of Jerry Reed's dog?
No Googleheiming!
Do you remember that Bass Hound's name?

Fred..."Hold on to your ***, Fred" as they entered the racetrack!

 

[rockquarry]

Almost worth seeing one time...a truly goofy movie.

 

[snuffy51]

Smokey and the Bandit ended at the Southeastern Fairgrounds in Lakewood in southeast Atlanta. When you topped the hill coming in, the big dirt track was off to the right and bleachers were to the left straight ahead. I walked by the big white tower at the top of the hill where they filmed the final scene many times going to the fair as a kid, long time ago.

 

[soFlaNative]

"Daddy, I lost my hat...".
Too bad your head wasn't in it!

 

[Mistered]

Almost worth seeing one time...a truly goofy movie.

Yea I remember watching it with my daughter when she was about 13 and she said what are those horrible clothes they are wearing ? She commented on Jerry Reeds red polyester pants, Burts HUGE bell bottom jeans and the high waist pants the girls were wearing. I told her those were 70's fashions!

 

[Donn]

"Now don't go home, don't go to eat, and don't play with yourself. Wouldn't look good on my highway. Oh, you can think about it, but don't do it."

Sheriff Buford T. Justice

 

[SC_Mike]

"You attract more fuzz than a fat man's navel!"

Or was that the second one?

 

[BruceM]

The Bandit to Big and Little Enos Burdett:

"Oh I love your suits. It must have been a bitch to get a size 68 Extra Fat and a size 12 Dwarf".

Bruce

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Most of what Jackie Gleason said was add libbed.

The movie was so popular that our high school showed it after school.
I have seen it about twenty times. I love spotting the old road tractors rolling along. GMC Astro, Chevy Titan, Autocars, Petes & KW's

 

[Chuck24]

Just one of those mindless, really fun movies you can watch again and again.

 

[JohnRippert]

There's no way you could have come from my loins.

"As soon as I get home, the first thing I am going to do is punch your momma in the mouth."

 

[BC38]

I don't think any of you have it exactly right. As I recall the way it went was

"There is no way - NO WAY - that you came from my loins!"
"Soon as I get home, the FIRST thing I'm gonna is to PUNCH yo' momma in da' MOUTH!"

I have also read that Jackie Gleeson - a.k.a. "The Great One" - ad-libbed most of the lines in the movie. I've also read that he was about half in the bag the whole time.