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Author Topic: Happy Birthday Smokey and The Bandit! Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-28-2007 03:10 PM                     For those who are interested in car chases and hot babes and not bloated sci fi epics, let's pay respect to the #2 grossing film of 1977, Smokey and Bandit.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-28-2007 03:17 PM                    Saw it at the Southland 68 Drive-in, now gone, in the summer of 1977. One of my favorite movies. It played at that drive-in practically all summer with the second feature changing frequently. I think it may have set attendance records to at the Drive in but not sure about that.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-28-2007 04:13 PM                        The metallic font in the title on that DVD cover is really hard to read. No wonder the movie was only #2.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-28-2007 04:40 PM                        Time flies! You now frequently see Sally Field advertising "Boniva" on television, for osteoporosis.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 05-28-2007 08:37 PM                     John, you're right. Sometimes when I see some actor or actress on tv I think to myself, "Damn he looks old". Next time I pass a mirror and look in, I realize maybe he wasn't so old after all.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-28-2007 09:46 PM                        The original movie one-sheet was much cooler looking than that dumb DVD cover which emphasizes the love story over the action packed car chases. Who thought that up? Jackie Gleason's "Buford T. Justice" is one of my favorite movie characters of all time. "Well, thank you Mr. Bandit. And let me say that you are the god-damndest pursuee that I have ever pursued! And now that the mutual bullshit is over....WHERE ARE YOU, YOU SUMBITCH?!" Probably the best foul-mouthed character to ever hit the screen, with the possible exception of the drill sergeant in "Full Metal Jacket."  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-28-2007 10:27 PM                      |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 05-29-2007 09:30 AM                     I have the original one-sheet on the wall in the booth. One of my all-time favorites.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 05-29-2007 11:39 AM                        John; Sally once was young and almost HOT. The Boniva thing is only just another reminder of how OLD I am! Isn't she about 64 now? Louis  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-29-2007 01:12 PM                        She's still hot though.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-29-2007 03:58 PM                     She's 61 this year. Would've been 31 when this came out. She was mightily cute as Frog though... One of my favorites...we used to get our schedules a month in advance as to what was coming to the Drive-In...there was hardly ever a list we got without Smokey And The Bandit on it. There are many scenes of it on you tube for those interested.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-29-2007 05:33 PM                       quote: Saw it at the Southland 68 Drive-in, Darryl! Remember how Bob Perkins had a drawing every night at intermission, for a free bottle of Coors beer? I worked a lot of different theatres during the time this movie was released (I even worked one night at the Southland 68 and ran it)- trying to get as much experience as I could, on as many different machines as I could. Every time I'd start at a new theatre, "Smokey and the Bandit" would end up there. I lost count at over 120 times showing this movie -- making changeovers all the way.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-29-2007 09:58 PM                    quote: Tim Reed Darryl! Remember how Bob Perkins had a drawing every night at intermission, for a free bottle of Coors beer? Tim, I can vaguely remember that......The thing I remember most is sitting on the hood of the car with my dad eating a Parkett Chicken Box.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-29-2007 10:10 PM                     ..Ran "Smokey and the Bandit" at a drive-in that late summer...Yard was always full on wknds...and thx to this movie,...began the craze of CB radio (actually, "Convoy" began the CB craze, but "SB" enhanced it many times over...) and the airwaves were full of: "C'mon, what's your '20" .. Didn't take long for the FCC to drop requiring licenses to operate CB radios.. (We oughta begin a subtopic dedicated to this movie on how many of us have CB handles we can share ... in 1977, since I drove a 1963 Rambler American 440H, I was known as "the Kelvinator Kid")  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-29-2007 10:56 PM                        quote: Monte L Fullmer CB handles we can share Well, I was "Fleetwood Mike" in tribute to my favorite musical group at the time. CB radios were way cooler than cell phones. They didn't bother people in restaurants, airplanes and movie theatres, and you didn't have to remember any numbers, and there was no limit on how much you could talk. ('Course there was that 3 mile range problem.)  |  IP: Logged

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