![]() ![]() ![]() "Smokey and the Bandit" took a story that would have fit right in at a rural grindhouse theater - of a trucker racing across the country with the law in hot pursuit - and dressed it up with the star power of "Deliverance" lead Burt Reynolds, "The Honeymooners" icon Jackie Gleason, and former "The Flying Nun" star Sally Field. But instead of science fiction, director Hal Needham set his sights on the quick-and-dirty regional thrillers that lit up small American theaters, and especially the subgenre of "trucksploitation" that grew out of the '70s' brief but intense CB radio craze. Like "Star Wars," "Smokey and the Bandit" put a layer of Hollywood gloss on a disreputable genre. It may not be as universally remembered, but it's still just as much a classic in its own right. But there was another action blockbuster that held its own against "Star Wars" at the box office.
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