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1. BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT ORANGUTAN DRIVER
2. BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT ORANGUTAN PROFESSIONAL

McClure and partner, Victor Prinzi, impersonate a U.S. Starting in Redondo Beach, California, and ending in Darien, Connecticut, with a $1 million prize, the race draws an assortment of racing teams and vehicles: a pair of young women, Jill and Marcie, scramble to find another car when their Lamborghini breaks down stuntman J. and win this year’s event, even if it means staging it himself, so the sheik organizes the event. The king orders his son to return to the U.S. Īn Arab king chastises his son, Sheik Abdul ben Falafel, for failing to win the previous year’s Cannonball Run, an American cross-country automobile race. Meanwhile, Betty and Veronica, two actresses on a lunch break from playing nuns in a stage version of. Don Don, however, insists they also kidnap the sheik and demand a ransom. When Cannelloni’s men learn about the Cannonball Run’s prize money, the gangsters decide to pursue the sheik, and rob him on the road. Outside Las Vegas, at Don Don’s brothel, the Pinto Ranch, mobster Hymie Kaplan gives Don Don twenty-four hours to repay a $9 million debt. Meanwhile, in New York City, Mafia chief Don Cannelloni orders four of his henchmen to straighten out the financial affairs of his son, Don Don Cannelloni, who is owed $30,000 by Fenderbaum and Blake.

BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT ORANGUTAN DRIVER

Army general and his staff car driver Mitsubishi engineer, Jackie, and his oversized driver, Arnold, race a customized sedan cousins Mel and Terry borrow a limousine from their Uncle Cal, a used car salesman, who insists they also take his temperamental orangutan and Fenderbaum and Blake, a couple of Las Vegas con men disguised as police officers, drive a red Corvette.

End credits include the following statement: “The producers wish to thank Governor Bruce Babbitt, the State of Arizona, the Arizona Film Commission, and Old Tucson for their cooperation in the making of this film.”Īn Arab king chastises his son, Sheik Abdul ben Falafel, for failing to win the previous year’s Cannonball Run, an American cross-country automobile race.

BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT ORANGUTAN PROFESSIONAL

The surnames of former professional football player Fred Dryer and 1980 Miss USA and Miss Universe Shawn Weatherly were misspelled “Dreyer” and “Wetherly,” in end credits. Onscreen credits list the character played by Tony Danza as “Terry,” but he introduces himself as “Tony from Brooklyn” in the film. Onscreen credits list the character played by Tony Danza as “Terry,” but he introduces himself. Jamie Farr, as “Sheik,” was the only actor to appear in all three films.

The film reunited actors Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Shirley MacLaine, and Frank Sinatra, from Ocean’s Eleven (1960, see entry), and marked the final feature film appearances of Martin and Sinatra.Ĭannonball Run II was preceded by Cannonball Run, and followed by Speed Zone (1989, see entry). The LA Weekly review stated that star Burt Reynolds and Needham, whose collaborations included Smokey and the Bandit II (1980, see entry) and Stroker Ace (1983, see entry), had created a “whole new category of filmmaking: noodle-brained gas guzzlers stalled on the far side of drivel.” A LAT article stated the production budget was $20 million. HR production charts on, announced that principal photography began in Tucson, AZ. However, Needham ultimately co-wrote the screenplay and directed the film. Filmmaker Hal Needham was reportedly unable to agree upon salary with producers Golden Harvest and distributor Warner Bros. Ruddy and executive producer Raymond Chow were preparing a sequel, with the working title, Another Ball.Ī Var brief announced Hugh Wilson would direct the The Cannonball Run sequel. More than six months prior to the domestic release of a The Cannonball Run (1981, see entry), a DV news item reported that producer Albert S.