The Cannonball Run (1981)

A cross-country car race provides the plot for this action-packed madcap comedy with an all-star cast. The fun continues from coast to coast with the likes of Burt Reynolds, Jackie Chan, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Mel Tillis, Sammy Davis Jr., and dozens of others.

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Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. 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 li...
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neup 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.
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Een snelheidsmaniak en zijn partner, een dikzak met een superheld als alter-ego, besluiten mee te doen aan een illegale cross-country-race, de Cannonball Run. Ze besluiten in een ambulance te rijden. Het deelnemersveld bestaat uit: Japanners in een super-auto inclusief radar en raketmotoren; twee gokkers verkleed als priester, etc. Een politicus c.q. autohater wil deze race opdoeken door de snelheidsduivels in te laten rekenen. De film kent een grote hoeveelheid 'sterren' en werd uitermate populair.

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