East bound and down, loaded up and truckin! Burt Reynolds, bootleggin’ buddy Jerry Reed and runaway bride Sally Field put the pedal to the metal, running a trailer full of Coors beer across State lines with Jackie Gleason’s Sheriff Buford T. Justice in hot pursuit in the blockbuster comedy Smokey and the Bandit.
“The king of the ‘good ol’ boy’ movies.” – Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
