In this comedy film, Burt Reynolds is an adventurer who decides to participate in an illegal and popular road race all over the country. There's an all-star cast of racers (Jackie Chan, Farrah Fawcett, Peter Fonda, Dean Martin, Sir Roger Moore, Sammy Davis, Jr. and others) that will do anything to outrun all the difficulties (including the police) and win the race. This action-comedy was based on an actual event: the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, a cross-country outlaw road race that has grown to legendary proportions.
A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks.
This movie should be rated up there with the greats; Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Godfather, Goddfe…… no, I'm just kidding. This movie is very poor, but is can be enjoyable in a slapstick sort of way. It's nice to see Sammy and Dino together, and there is an all-star, unusual cast. is this the first American film with Jackie Chan in it? This movie received a rating of 5 out of 10.
A mere good natured romp? Not hardly my friend. Mr. Needham portrays the very essense of a restless post-Watergate, Vietnam, Anita Bryant, et al. America. The Land of Freedom sorely needed a laugh cavalcade-a bromo if you will to sooth our collective, disillusioned, gaseous belly. Plop plop fizz fizz… YES! our thirst was quenched, our churning acid soothed. Dean Martin! Sammy! Farrah! Terry Bradshaw WITH Mel Tillis!! Jamie Farr! Joe Klecko! Ray Milland! A young and strapping Jackie Chan! Adrianne Barbeau! Roger Moore and so many others!! Not to mention of course the legendary comedy duo of Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise (sp)!! Mr. Needham on behalf of a Grateful Nation we thank thee. How can one man give so much and yet ask for so little in return. A Kennedy Center Honor should lay in your future my friend! Sure we would have liked to have seen Lee Marvin, Connie Francis, Jerry Reed, Mean Joe Greene, and Jimmy Caan in "Cannonball" - maybe even that chimp from "Every Which Way But Loose". Alas these are the stuff of lovely, lovely dreams. Like the song says… "It's not what you do it's how you do it. You be you and I'll be me…" "Just For the Hell of it" Indeed. A big 10 out of 10 stars for this "Good Natured Romp" P.S. Bert Convey, Godspeed my man. You were an original. You will be missed!
A truly stupid film based on what should have been a surefire hit - a cross-country car race. Too many stars spoil the action, including Burt Reynolds, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. [19 June 1981, p.2-8]
Yes, the script writer, Brock Yates, was inspired to write the screenplay by a real race that took place four times in the 1970s called Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. <br/><br/>Yates himself has a bit part in the movie as the &quot;Organizer&quot;, the man who speaks to the racers right before they leave.
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