Southern American, alcohol, and the goddamn road. Burt Reynolds. Giving your film visual depth. Smokey and the Bandit for Dummies. What we’re dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law! Bandits. Snowman. Racism in the south. The Prodigy song Their Law uses a quote (not a sample). Pontiac Trans Am. Is this roadsploitation? Whiskey running. Coors being illegal in the 70s. Blocking. Who is David Carradine, really? Thunder and Lightning and Roger Corman. Cheap 70s filmmaking. Christian gator wrestling. 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air hard top (second generation). Rotgut whiskey. What should be icons!
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Also referenced: Deliverance, The Last Man on Earth, The Honeymooners, Vanishing Point, Easy Rider, Silver Streak, Joy Ride, Duel, The Dukes of Hazzard, White Lightning, Gator, Big Bad Mama, Boardwalk Empire, Star Trek, Dallas, Death Race 2000, Children of the Corn, Hell Ride, Kill Bill, Kung Fu, James Cameron (Terminator), Francis Ford Coppola (Dementia 13), Joe Dante (Gremlins), Bucket of Blood, The House on Haunted Hill, Hatchet, Friday the 13th, Charlie’s Angels, Bubba Ho-Tep, Trick ‘r Treat
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Smokey and the Bandit
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Director: Hal Needham
Writer: James Lee Barrett, Charles Shyer, Alan Mandel
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Paul WIlliams
The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.
Thunder and Lightning
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Director: Corey Allen
Writer: William Hjortsberg
Starring: David Carradine, Kate Jackson, Sterling Holloway, Patrick Cranshaw
A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation.
