![]() ![]() Yes, the chemistry is crackling, and the script is very funny, as is the film’s very 1970s conceit of including a theme song (Jerry Reed’s “East Bound and Down”) that recites the plot of the movie. Along the way, he picks up a runaway bride (a shockingly young Sally Field), and things go predictably on that front. ![]() Of course, because it wouldn’t look cool for The Bandit to drive a truck, he instead drives a Pontiac Trans Am, in order to distract the cops from where the beer is. In pursuit is a vengeful sheriff (Jackie Gleason.) Is Coors good enough beer to be worth the trouble? Probably not, but I digress.īig Enos and Little Enos (Pat McCormick and Paul Williams), wealthy race car owners, want to celebrate a big win in Atlanta - why? “because he’s thirsty, dummy” - so they hire The Bandit (Burt Reynolds) and his associate The Snowman (Jerry Reed) to take the hundreds of cases of Coors across four states. No, it’s not moonshine, and the film isn’t set during Prohibition it just turns out that it was at that team not allowed to sell Coors east of Oklahoma. #How many smokey and the bandit movies are there fullThe plot entails a scheme to… a plot to smuggle a truck full of Coors beer from Texas to Georgia. ![]() Part of what’s so great about Smokey and the Bandit is just how low-stakes the action is. ![]()
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