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May 12, 2017 - 6:40 AM
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johnjohnson
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment will celebrate the 40th anniversary of director Hal Needham's classic film Smokey and the Bandit (1977) with a brand new Blu-ray edition. The release will be available for purchase on July 11.
Synopsis: Starring Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field and Jerry Reed, Smokey and the Bandit delivers outrageous laughs in one of the biggest box-office hits of all time. Bandit (Reynolds), a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker, takes on his craziest haul yet - delivering 400 cases of beer from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. With Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason) hot on his trail and eager to teach him some respect for the law, the Bandit joins forces with good ol' boy, Cledus (Reed) and runaway bride Carrie (Field). Gear up for huge laughs, pedal-to-the-metal action, and some of the wildest car crashes ever filmed!
Special Features:
NEW The Bandit - Documentary
Loaded Up And Truckin' – Making Smokey and the Bandit
Snowman, What's Your 20? The Smokey and the Bandit CB Tutorial
Theatrical Trailer
100 Years Of Universal: The 70s
100 Years Of Universal: The Lot
Loaded Up and Truckin' - The Making of Smokey and the Bandit
Snowman, What's Your 20? - The Smokey and the Bandit CB Tutorial
Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=21306
To coincide with the 40th anniversary, Fathom Events have a screening.
https://www.fathomevents.com/events/smokey-and-the-bandit
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Has a "special edition" of the first film's soundtrack ever been issued? Several songs and parts of the score on the original album appear to be different takes than the versions that appear in the film (which, to my ears, are superior).
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Sep 12, 2017 - 8:46 AM
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jackfu
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S&TB was enormously popular here in the South (USA). I think it connected here because of several factors.
Cars – Southerners have long been fond of muscle cars and when the Bandit Special Edition Trans Am cars became available they were a huge hit here. I remember a local boy who bought one of the first ones in our area, decided to emulate Bandit’s chase with the cops and proceeded to wrap himself and his new Trans Am around a tree, fatally, unfortunately.
Coors – I don’t know of any consumer product today that can compare to the hysteria over Coors (Banquet, I think) beer of the mid 70s, in this area at least. Because it wasn’t pasteurized then, it wasn’t commercially shipped east of the Mississippi, so it was practically worth its weight in gold. Yes, there was some bootlegging.
Sherriff Buford T. Justice – Lots of folks, especially teen boys, had encounters with one or more Justice types while driving, mostly when they were caught speeding. Not that the LEOs were abusive, but some did have Justice’s type of attitude, swagger and language. “You in a heap of trouble, boy” didn’t just spring from some writer’s imagination. So, there was a definite connection with the good Sherriff’s character.
Bandit and Cledus – Many folks here either knew or were related to characters like these two, i.e., guys that didn’t have 8 to 5 type jobs, but never lacked for money, yet weren’t exactly fugitives from the law, either.
The southernisms and the CB craze were typical of the times here, with “Good Ole Boys”, fast cars and women in short-shorts and halter tops.
I enjoyed it when it debuted and watch it once in a while, when it’s on TV, if for no other reason than for Jackie Gleason’s performance. Don't know if I'll buy this.
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Well im glad it was popular somewhere. It was just the rest of the world that thought it was unfunny claptrap.
Wait, i tell a lie. The outtakes of burt and dean martin giggling were the only funny bits.
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Hey actually youre right - smokey and the bandit was even less funny than that! 
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