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The Cannonball Run

Cast

Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise View All

Crew

Hal Needham (Director), Brock Yates (Screenplay) View All

Release: Jun. 19th, 1981

Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes

A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. "Cannonball" Baker, who in the roaring 20's rode his motorcycle across the country. Many of the characters are based on ruses developed by real Cannonball racers over the several years that the event was run.

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Citizen Rules
If you want a mind numbing movie about racing, that has the slowest/worst racing scenes in a race car movie, then here you go.

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Gideon58
Reynolds plays JJ McClure, an annual participant in the race who thinks the answer to winning the race is traveling in an ambulance, accompanied by best pal Vincent (Dom DeLuise), a drunken doctor (Jack Elam) and a pretty conservationist (Farrah Fawcett) pretending to be a comatose patient so that t....