Director: Hal Needham
Year: 1977
Writers: James Lee Barrett, Charles Shyer, Alan Mandel
Cinematographer: Bobby Byrne
This movie seems to know its a bad film and never tries to be anything but a B-movie. The dialogue is really corny in parts, but equally fun, especially when Jackie Gleason is creatively spouting profanities.
Sally Fields and Burt Reynolds are just silly here, and when she kisses him romantically (with overbearing music cues in the background) I laughed out loud, thinking "ooh, gross!"
Some fun moments, and a lot of ridiculous cb radio chatter. Worth seeing just for Jackie Gleason as Buford T. Justice, Sheriff of Texarkana.
The premise of the film is very forced and stupid, and the stakes never really get very high, but its fun to see police cars romping around and crashing while trying to catch that infamous black T-top Trans-Am with the golden eagle on the hood.
Goofy little comedy, fun to watch even though its far from being great cinema.
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