Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Bootlegging truck driver The Bandit (Reynolds) bets a Texan millionaire (Pat McCormick) that he can smuggle a consignment of prohibited beer across state lines from Texas to Atlanta in just over a day. Cue an extended car chase across the country, with Gleason playing the dim-witted sheriff in pursuit and Sally Field providing some on-the-road romance.

Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Bandit Reynolds) is now an alcoholic down on his luck, who accepts the job of delivering an elephant to the Republican National Convention in just 24 hours. Hot on his tail of course, is the redneck sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason).

Smokey and the Bandit III (1983)
Truck driver Cletus (Jerry Reed) is hired to deliver a replica shark from Miami to a seafood restaurant in Texas. On the way, Cletus is mistaken by Sheriff Justice for his old enemy The Bandit, and a high-speed chase ensues as Buford and his son set out to apprehend him.

Yep that's me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames right down your throat. I was Hollywood's highest paid stuntman so I should know.
I wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, and along the way broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth...I hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in "The Spirit of St. Louis," jumped between galloping horses in "Little Big Man," set a world record for a boat stunt on "Gator," jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial, was the first human to test the car airbag-and taught John Wayne how to "really "throw a movie punch.
Life also got exciting outside of the movie business. I had my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose, flew in a twin-engine Cessna with a passed out pilot, rescued the cast and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, and once took six flight attendants on a date. I owned the Skoal-Bandit NASCAR race team, the sound-barrier breaking Budweiser Rocket Car and drove a souped-up, fake ambulance in a "little" cross-country race called "The Cannonball Run," which became the movie I directed by the same name. Oh yeah, I also directed "Smokey and the Bandit," "Hooper" and several other action/comedy movies that I liked a bunch.
I was a sharecropper's son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. That journey was a tough row to hoe. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. I was never late to the set and did whatever I had to do to get the job done.
Hollywood's not all sunglasses and autographs. Let me tell you a few stories...

Bootlegging truck driver the Bandit (Burt Reynolds) bets a Texan millionaire (Pat McCormick) that he can smuggle a consignment of prohibited beer across state lines from Texas to Atlanta in just over a day. Cue an extended car chase across the country, with Jackie Gleason playing the dim-witted sheriff in pursuit and Sally Field providing some on-the-road romance.

Hal Needham co-writes and directs this 1984 car chase comedy starring an all-star cast including Burt Reynolds, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Dom DeLuise.

Having lost the first Cannonball Run, the Sheik (Jamie Farr) is commanded by his wealthy father to return to the United States and bring honour back to the family name by winning the next race. Many of the participants from the previous outing are brought back to compete...

Star-studded car chase comedy from Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham, the same actor-director partnership behind such classics as 'Hooper' and 'Smokey and the Bandit'.

The action focuses on a mixed bunch of people who have come together to take part in an illegal coast-to-coast car race across America. Reynolds plays ace driver J.J. McClure; Dom DeLuise is McClure's superhero partner Captain Chaos; Roger Moore appears as Seymour Goldfarb, a man convinced that he is really the actor Roger Moore; Jackie Chan is a Kung Fu fighting Subaru driver; Jamie Farr is The Sheik; Farrah Fawcett and Adrienne Barbeau are fellow drivers Pamela and Marcia; and Rat Packers Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr play a couple of hard-drinking priests.

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