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The Cannonball Run (1981) 6.1
A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks. Director:Hal NeedhamWriter:Brock Yates |
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This comedy film brings Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and an all-star cast to the starting line of the ultimate auto race, a madcap cross-country scramble that roars full-speed ahead. This action-comedy was inspired by an actual event: the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an anything goes, all-stops-out - and very much illegal - competition that has grown to legendary proportions within the last ten years. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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Release Date:
19 June 1981 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Cannonball Trophy See more »Box Office
Budget:
$18,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$59,900,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Written by Chuck Mangione (as C. Mangione)
Performed by Chuck Mangione
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Burt Reynolds received a then-record $5 million salary for his work on the film, which took three weeks. See more »Goofs
When the pick-up truck is trying to outrun the police and jump over the moving train, the ramp is visible. See more »Quotes
Organizer: I'd like to welcome you all to an event that's sometimes been called the Automotive counterpart to the Bay of Pigs.See more »
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An animated car drives around the 20th Century Fox logo, hiding out in the zero. It is chased by a police car, which crashes into one of the searchlights. The sequence ends with Burt Reynold's trademark laugh. See more »Soundtracks
The Cannonball RunWritten by Chuck Mangione (as C. Mangione)
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This film is best summarized as a live action version of Wacky Races. Burt Reynolds leads on all star cast of freaky drivers competing in a no-holds-barred race competition called the Cannonball Run. The standouts in this film are Roger Moore who seems to enjoy spoofing his own James Bond character, Jackie Chan as a kung-fu foreign race champ, Jack Elam as the twisted doctor riding along in Burt's ambulance, and Jamie Farr as a mad sheik trying to show Islamic superiority by defeating his opponents.
This is not a movie to be taken seriously, especially with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. cruising around dressed up like priests. There are a lot of good stunts and chase scenes in this movie, as well as a long brawl towards the end with all the Cannonballers against a gang of bikers, led by Peter Fonda!
To quote the Brain Gremlin from Gremlins 2: "Check it out one time, won't you!" You won't be disappointed.