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Post by JD on Sept 7, 2018 3:55:52 GMT
I loved the Smokey & the Bandit movies, at least the first couple. I remember even watching him when he was QUITE young, on Gunsmoke!
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Post by Joyce on Sept 7, 2018 17:01:22 GMT
Yeah. It's difficult to realize that some of the actors we grew up with are now quite elderly!  |
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Post by Nancy on Sept 8, 2018 0:29:37 GMT
He was much older than I expected! I thought he was my Dad’s age or younger. I have fond childhood memories of Bandit and Cannonball Run. Recently we watched City Heat, with him & Clint Eastwood. It’s a noir-style crime drama, was good!
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Post by Scott on Sept 8, 2018 2:45:24 GMT
I think my sister had a crush on him about 45 years ago. She would watch re-runs of Dan August and enthuse over him doing his own stunts. It didn't seem like her sort of movie, but she and my brother and I went to see White Lightning at the drive-in. They showed Fuzz as a second feature but I slept through it. He was in a movie last year called The Last Movie Star. He plays an elderly star much like himself who is invited to receive a lifetime achievement award at a film festival. It turns out that the "film festival" is in a bar and he was the first star to show up at it. It was kind of depressing. Looking at imdb.com, he's been appearing in a lot of things just in the last few years so he was far more active than the washed up actor he played. I didn't realize Gator was a sequel to White Lightning. I would have seen it if I had known.
He was in Michael Shayne episode on the 1961.
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Post by Scott on Sept 10, 2018 4:42:12 GMT
I watched Gator. Was a little disappointed. The speedboat chase through the swamp was in the beginning and had little to do with the plot. Jerry Reed kept laughing and laughing. I wanted Burt to hurry up and kill him.
Then watched The Longest Yard. I find prison movies depressing and I've never gone for sports movies. Eddie Albert played the sadistic warden just a few years after Green Acres.
I want to find Semi-Tough, The End and Nickelodeon on streaming video.
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Post by Rokia on Sept 26, 2018 3:21:36 GMT
Yes, this was sad news! Goodbye Bandit!
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Post by Scott on Nov 1, 2018 3:36:05 GMT
My neighbor just came to the door walking the kids around for Halloween. I didn't recognize him for a minute in his cowboy hat and fake mustache. It was only after he left that I realized he was dressed as Burt Reynolds.
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