After “Smokey and the Bandit,” Hollywood began churning out a flood of trucker-centric entertainment, including such movies as “Convoy” and “Every Which Way But Loose,” as well as such ...

Smokey and the Bandit 3 was originally titled Smokey IS the Bandit, with Jackie Gleason playing both Smokey and the Bandit. After test screenings, audience reported being confused, and the movie ...

On May 19, 1977, Universal premiered Burt Reynolds' 'Smokey and the Bandit' at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. By Ron Pennington On May 19, 1977, Universal premiered Burt Reynolds’ Smokey ...

It's been 40 years since Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed and Jackie Gleason teamed up for the iconic film "Smokey and the Bandit." There is an annual re-enactment -- Restore a Muscle Car's ...

If you’re a fan of “Smokey and the Bandit,” get ready for more rip-roaring, cross-country action. A TV series based on the 1977 movie is in the works, according to reports by Variety ...

but what their fans might not know is that Burt Reynolds made it cool decades earlier with 1977's Smokey and the Bandit. Director (and former stuntman) Hal Needham's Southern-fried action comedy ...

Director/stuntman Hal Needham had made his break-out directorial debut 30 years earlier with the blockbuster,Smokey and the Bandit, a movie starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason ...

Trucking films also saw a boom during that decade with iconic ’70s films like “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Convoy.” The CB radio craze fizzled out in the 1980s with the rise of cell ...

Jerry Reed, whose roles in three “Smokey and the Bandit” Southern comedy films opposite Burt Reynolds often overshadowed his gifts as a prolific country singer-songwriter and virtuoso ...