Smokey and the Bandit

Plot

A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.

About Smokey and the Bandit

Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 American action comedy road film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry. The film marks the directorial debut of stuntman Hal Needham. The film follows Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds) and Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed), two truck-driving bootleggers attempting to illegally transport 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana to Atlanta. During their run, they are pursued by Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason), of Montague County, Texas, after his son's runaway bride Carrie (Field) joins The Bandit and Snowman in their rum-run. Smokey and the Bandit was a box office success following initial screenings at drive-in theaters across the Southern United States that prompted Universal to reopen the film nationwide, grossing $127 million ($526 million in 2025) against a $4.3 million ($17.8 million in 2025) budget, becoming the second-highest-grossing domestic film of 1977 in the United States, behind Star Wars. The film became the first installment in the Smokey and the Bandit franchise and the first film of the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy.

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