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With only a few blocks to the finish line, drivers must abandon their vehicles and run to determine a winner. It was disguised as an ambulance to evade law. This photo, from 1979, shows the van Yates and Needham piloted. When the road re-opens, Jackie can't resist lingering to show off his martial arts skills. The Portofino Inn in Redondo, California, is the end point of every Cannonball Run. Nearing the finish, the racers are halted by construction and confronted by a mean motorcycle gang (led by "Easy Rider" Peter Fonda.) Wild fights break out, and Captain Chaos emerges to toss bikers through a window. The truck's brakes fail with a train in the way. The sheik talks about buying California and firing the patrolmen. His full name is used in the end credits. In the opening credits, actor Norman Grabowski is listed as Norm Grabowski. The film is often referred to as Cannonball Run, although the correct title is The Cannonball Run. Based on a true race event, Burt Reynolds leads an all star cast in this ultimate quest to win The Cannonball Run. Jackie's invisible stealth mode speeds him safely past radar, but his high-tech navigation system fails to distinguish Santa Fe from El Paso and the skin flick on his dash screen causes much swerving and skidding. Working titles for the film were The Cannonball Trophy and Cannonball. and Jamie exchange insults, tire flattening, and cop baiting.
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Marcie and Jill find out that not all cops can be charmed by cleavage. Jack Elam steals the movie as Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing, a (cross eyed) proctologist and graduate of the University of Rangoon, and the Knoxville, Tennessee.
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"Bond" endures CB users who don't know how to speak the Queen's English, and various dates tempted to touch his spy gadgetry. Bradford's weighty passenger Shakey Finch (Warren Berlinger) keeps the motorcycle balancing on one wheel. Foyt (George Furth) writes down licence numbers as the racers hit the road. superhero "Captain Chaos" (Dom DeLuise ) pretty tree-hugging "patient" Pamela Glover (Farrah Fawcett ) and a smoking, drinking, hacking, cockeyed "doctor" Nikolas Van Helsing (Jack Elam.) They will race against Seymour Goldfarb (Roger Moore,) a wealthy heir with delusions of being Roger Moore/James Bond in an Astin Martin DB5 Jackie Chan (Jackie Chan,) Japan's #1 race driver in a fully computerized Subaru Sheik Abdul ben Falafel (Jamie Farr,) a wealthy Arab in a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow Jamie Blake and Morris Fenderbaum (Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.,) an ex-F1 driver and a Vegas gambler, disguised as priests in a Ferrari Bradford Compton (Bert Convey,) a thrill-seeking businessman who parachutes in on his motorcycle rednecks Mel and Terry (Mel Tillis, Terry Bradshaw,) in a chameleon race car stud-magnets Marcie and Jill (Adrienne Barbeau, Tara Buckman,) in a Lambourghini and yahoos Mad Dog and Batman (Rick Aviles, Alfie Wise,) in a GMC truck.Ĭlick here to see the rest of this reviewĪnti-race zealot Arthur J. He takes along his mechanic buddy Victor, a.k.a. McClure (Burt Reynolds) disguises a van as an ambulance for the race. The Cannonball Run is an illegal Connecticut-to-California road rally with eccentric and tricky participants.
