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Prepare to indulge in one of Hollywood's most shameless guilty pleasures!
Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time on The Cannonball Run, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. This incomparable gag-fest pays comic tribute to the real-life event 'The Cannonball Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash'; a non-stop, anything goes and thoroughly illegal road race from America's Atlantic to Pacific coastline.
The police are the least of the Cannonballers' worries as they push the pedal to the metal in a race from Connecticut to California. Reynolds stars as J.J. McClure, a speed-loving racer disguised as an ambulance driver to outsmart the police. He is paired up with Dom Deluise, who plays his dimwitted sidekick Victor and who, on occasion, dons the suit of Captain Chaos. Rat Packers Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. join the lineup as Ferrari-driving priests, while martial arts expert Jackie Chan takes on one of his first U.S. film roles driving a souped-up Subaru. Among the many other stars are Roger Moore doing a parody of his 007 character, complete with secret devices and weapons, Farrah Fawcett as Pamela, a woman McClure and Chaos pick up, and Jamie Farr as a deranged Islamic sheik. Jack Elam joins the cast as a crazed proctologist along for McClure's ambulance ride, and Needham makes a cameo as a patient.
Possibly the most famous road-movie of all time, The Cannonball Run displays a level of celebrity excess and reckless abandonment that has never been topped.
ITEM SPECIFICS
Region: | 2 - Europe (PAL), Japan (NTSC), South Africa, Middle East | Rating: | PG | Year: | 1981 | Duration: | 91 minutes (approx) | Label: | Medusa | Ratio: | Widescreen | Cast: | Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Elam, Adrienne Barbeau, Terry Bradshaw, Jackie Chan, Jamie Farr, Peter Fonda, George Furth, Bianca Jagger, Mel Tillis, Rick Aviles, Robert Tessier
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Language: | English - Dolby Digital (5.1) |
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