Smokey and the Bandit
- Release Date
- May 26, 1977
- Director
- Hal Needham
- Cast
- Burt Reynolds , Sally Field , Jerry Reed , Mike Henry , Paul Williams , Pat McCormick
- Runtime
- 96
- Main Genre
- Action
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Writers
- Hal Needham , Robert L. Levy , James Lee Barrett , Charles Shyer , Alan Mandel
- Tagline
- What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law.
Summary
Bandit and Cledus are two truck-driving southerners who accept a dare from big-shots Big and Little Enos to pick up a truckload of beer from Texas and return it to them within a specified amount of time. Picking it up is simple enough, but as they are leaving Texas, Bandit unwittingly picks up Carrie, a hitchhiking bride-to-be who just left her groom, Junior, at the altar. Junior, however, is the son of Sheriff Buford T. Justice. And when Buford and Junior discover what has happened, they go on a "high-speed pursuit" across the Southeast to catch the bandit.
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